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THE BATTALION.
under “Jimmie,” as the boy used to call him, come in very
handy every day. The country differs a great deal from the
campus or the pasture below the cow barn at the A. and M.
We encounter a great many difficulties and are compelled to
take all the weather as it comes, let it be fair or foul. The
life of one in these districts is one of hardships.
Frank Lewis, U. S. Surveyor.
Choosing a Profession.
This is the question that confronts every young man on
entering business life, and as his success depends largely upon
his start, it is of the utmost importance that he choose a pro
fession for which he is qualified and for which he has a liking*
A great many men have proven total failures in their adopted
professions simply because they were unqualified for them.
A man may fancy a certain profession, although he may
have no talent for it, merely because he thinks he will prove
a success in that particular line, and the majority of them
find out their mistake too late.
They see other men making a great reputation and name
for themselves in the medical profession, for instance, and
they become imbued with the idea that they are cut out for
doctors and nothing else, and not taking into consideration
that the prominent doctor is the man who studies all the time
and after choosing that profession these young aspirants find
they are totally incapable of meeting the demands of it. So
several years of the best portion of their life is wasted. How
many of our young professional men attend to their business
as they should? You find most of them standing on the
street discussing the current events of the day when they
should be in their office.
A man should examine himself and find out for what pro
fession he is best fitted, and even though he imagines he
could achieve more success in some other line, he should pur
sue the one that he likes because he will then be in love with