THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 117, 8 May 1908, Page 4

THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS.

Kverything must give way to the job." The of time. energy, temper and niouev that a "lush job" eau>e- is often greater than anyone realises. And tho work i> often put through its couise at such a rati; that proper attention cannot In? given to it. Why is it a "rush job"? More often than no} it is because someone has )'a)l<'H at the switch until the train is lx-aiing down upon thorn, and ilm'H, half awakened. lie is tugging furiously at tin* lever to throw the switch in time. It is true that ho can point to lu«' train coming and demand immediate help and get it lor 110 ono likes to a wreck. But it would have been better to havo awakened a little sooner.

Whenever I see a "rush job" I cauuot help wondering how long it has lain idle in some pigeon-hole, wailing for (lie spirit to move. There are. of cour-e, instance-* where a "rtir-lt job" is not the result of neglect, but is a mailer of importance ihat cannot be delayed. The Government printer,, once put through a hook of three hundred pages in fourteen hours—a report needed at a meeting of I'irliamcnl. To handle such a job satisfactorily is a splendid achievement, worthy of lite energy and enthusiasm and executive ability it requires. Some men fairly revel in such work. Hut working to make up time that has been e.!iele*-lv lost is n different -lory.