Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1920 — THE GIRL ON THE JOB [ARTICLE]

THE GIRL ON THE JOB

How to Succeed —How to Get Ahead —How to Make Good

By JESSIE ROBERTS

THE JOB ABOVE YOU IT IS perfectly legitimate for you to be keeping an eye with a vieVf to future possession on the job above you. Some of us have perhaps reached the pinnacle of our ambition, but that number is small. There is something ahead that is better and it is right to try for it, to plan for It, to get it. But don’t make the mistake pf slurring your present job because you think you are fit for a better one. The best way In the world to get that rise is to fill your present position as well as It can be filled. There is very little really thorough work being done. The girl who is thorough in what she does, who can be definitely depended upon,, will attract notice. Doing your work well is more important than many women think. One woman whom I know was supposed to make clippings for her employer in regard to the business of the /firm, clippings from a large number of papers, and to leave these on his desk. It occurred to her that he lost a good deal of time in running over these slips. She began arranging them according to topics, and she fastened to each bunch of clippings a resuipe of their contents carefully made. It wasn’t much perhaps, but

It looked good to that employer. He kept his eye on that young woman. She had ayoused his interest Presently she suggested the feasibility of issuing a small pamphlet made utf of items, from these clippings, a monthly record of what appeared in the public prints that was most to the point The idea was adopted and worked well. A girl like that does not stay down. She is n<A private secretary and advertising manager to that employer, at an excellent salary. And she will go farther. You don’t need to be a grind and a drudge to do your work so well that you will be taking the job above” you as soon as it is vacant —or can be created. You do need to be Interested in what you are doing now, to be ready to develop its possibilities, to see the relationship between what you are doing and the work of the organisation .as a whole. It is work done without interest and hope that is hard. It leads nowhere, and it is boring. Keep alive in the job you are in. (Copyright.)