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EDITORIALS
The views expressed in these columns
necessarily a reflection of. the policy
are those of the w'riter and not
of The Voice.—Pub.
How to Keep a Job After You Get
BY JAMES A PAWLEY
Industrial Kolttlions 1)1 reft or. I rlian
Untur of Kansas City
Your first step in your new
job is to analyze the job. Why
were you hired? How does your
job fit in with your employer’s
overall operations? You should
be well aware of the fact that
some jobs are of such a nature
that they are carried on the em
ployer’s books as “overhead ex
penses.” Usually they consist of
services that are not directly vol
ume producing, sales producing
or production line activities.
These tasks such as may be per
formed by a porter, janitor, ele
vator operator, messenger, deliv
ery boy or general office clerk
are, therefore, not the more lu
crative positions.
Should you be forced to start
your career from such a position,
however you should not only do
that job well, but you should
with equal determination, study
the job at the next promotional
level. Learn what such jobs are
and determine where they lead.
If you should discover that there
are no opportunities for advance
ment with your current employ- j
er—then survey the community ]
to find places where there are j
opportunities to advance.
“No opportunity for advance
ment” is a pretty poor excuse
for doing indifferent or sloven
ly work—what is more, you will
find in the end that you have
hurt yourself more than you
have injured your employer. It
is frequently said, and with a
good of validity, that the man
who does more than he is paid
for will eventually be paid for
more than he does.
In your new job, develop initi
ative. Have ideas Make sugges
tions for improving your work
Be careful, however, that youi
ideas are sound and that youi
suggestions are logical. Remem
ber that you should be able tc
defend any proposal that yoi
advance So, make haste slowly
Be sure that you can see over
undei, around and through an;
problem that you take to you
boss
If you are working in a Ion:
established or well managed con
cern, remember also that tb
tasks laid out for you have in al
probability* been set up by train
ed executives and that there ar
very good reasons for having th
procedures you follow set up th
way they are. If, after careft
consideration, however, you ca
improve upon them, then by a:
means take your idea to th
boss.
Don’t be squeamish about be
gining your career at entry oc
cupational levels in the servic
industries. Each census repoi
has shown a continuously grow
ing importance of occupations i
these industries. Each year mor
»nd more people are payin
| more and more money for the
multitudenous services that have
! become an essential part of pres
ent day living Study these ser
vices—develop or contribute to
the development of new or im
proved one Housewives are con
stantly on the lookout for easier
ways to get household chores
lightened. Business people are
always interested in new and
more economical ways to get
routine work done. Tradesmen
and professional people alike are
continously, searching for some
one else to take over the more
distastefull parts of their opera
tions—all of this adds up to the ■
need for more service workers, j
If, therefore, you study your ser
Among the interesting historic
sites in Nebraska is that of the
old Pawnee mission, located on
Plum Creek near where it emp
ties into the Loup River, and
not far from the present town of
Fullerton. The mission was es
tablished in 1841 and abandoned
in 1846 as a result of raids by
the Dakotas.
During those few years, the
vice job carefully—you may not
only win yourself promotions for
I your ideas—*you may even wind
up being your own boss!
In the production line activ- j
ities and in the craft occupations,
the promotional ladder is fre- j
quently better defined than in
many of the other occupational
classifications. The rise from
learner or apprentice to journey
man is, therefore, a little more
direct. But even under such a
system, the payoff comes much
easier and much more lucrative- !
ly to the worker who displays.
the greater amount of initiative'
and dependability.
Finally, whether you work for |
someone else or whether you are
your own boss, you’ve got to
learn to get along with others.
Business today is much more of
a group operation than hereto
fore.
Kansas City fall
missionaries stationed there ex
perimented with the agricultural
possibilities of the region and
! made some small progress in the
religious and intelectual instruc
tion ■ of the Indians with whom
' they were associated. On the
j whole, though, they seem to have
had a discouraging experience.
Some of their letters are pu
blished in Volume 14 of the Col
lections of the Kansas State His
1 torical Society, and from them we
i are able to glean a picture of life
1 at this isolated Nebraska mission.
Principal figures at the mission
were John Dunbar and Samuel
Allis, Presbyterians, who had
come to the Nebraska country in
1834 and who had spent much
time wandering with the Pawnees,
accompanying them on their
hunts and living as one of them.
After this wandering life, they
were gratified at the opportunity
of establishing a permanent mis
sion. Such gratification made its
abandonment all the more dif
ficult to bear.
The missionaries arrived at
their new home, May 17, 1841.
Writing on July 31, Dunbar
stated: ‘‘The crop now appears
promising. Our gardens are do
ing well, w’hen the lateness of the
season at which they were planted
and that the land had not before
been cultivated are taken into
account. This is a fine corn coun
try an I know not why wheat
may not be cultivated to advan
tage . . 'the soil is very mellow
and may be easily plowed with
one yoke of oxen or dug up with
the hoe and when properly tend
ed produce an excellent crop of
corn, pumpkins, melons, etc.—
Just the thing for Indians.”
Allis, writing in September,
was of the same opinion: “The
country here is quite healthy, the
soil productive. Our corn, and
most of our garden vegetables
look well and promise a good
crop.”
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