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XXIX—ON THE CHOICE OF A BUSINESS.
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Xxix—On The Choice Of A Business.
XXIX—ON THE CHOICE OF A BUSINESS .
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¦ _^ useful [ We and are indebted practical to remarks the kindness formin of a Miss chapter Boucherett of a book for shortl the following to be :
, g y published , under the title of " Self-help for Women . " ] The choice of the employment to be followed must mainly
de-Individual pend on the , but social some position hints _^ may education be useful , and as opportunities applying- generall of each y
to all . Those professions should be avoided which are already
overcrowded and consequently underpaid . This is a truismyetstrange to saythis plain rule is little
obviousl considered bad by policy young , to women , embark starting in an underpaid in , life ; for emp thoug loyment h it , is it
is also difficult y to get out of the beaten track . Thusthough every one knows that there are already far too
many governesses , and dressmakers , girls of the middle-class beginning life seldom think of becoming anything * else ; they
hope to succeed better than others ; a few do well they think , and why should they not be among the few ? Now if a young person
has no choice but to become a dressmaker or a governess , she is right enough to enter on her work in a cheerful these spirit , and to hop it is
for the best _; but if she can avoid entering employments , her duty to do so as well as her interest . It is her duty , because as the numbers are already too greather success can only be
purchased by another person ' s failure . , There is bread to be won for onla limited numberand if she succeeds in winning her loaf
some y one else must go , without . If , therefore , any other opening presents itself , she should eagerly avail herself of it , not only on of consideration for the
her own _accountbtit out general good . Perhaps it may be , said that every department of labour in England is over-crowdedand that she cannot enter any without _occasioning
inconvenience to , those who are already there . In many departmentsthough not in allthis is true ; but to occasion inconvenience
is very To compe different l a strong from causin and , health g starvation y man or woman to emigrate to _h
vol . x .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/1/
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