Professions for Boys and How to Enter Them (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Professions for Boys and How to Enter Them

It may well be doubted if schoolmasters or parents have been careful enough to educate the young in the thought and view of the professions to which their youth is pre paratory.

One difficulty has been that no existing book has afforded what may perhaps be called a conspectus of all such pro fessions as are Open to the young in the English-speaking world; none has set forth the laws, conditions, Opportunities, emoluments and drawbacks of the professions. Young people have therefore chosen their professions in the dark or at haphazard or without an adequate sense of their own capabilities. They have made mistakes, and a mistake once made in the choice of a profession is hard to retrieve. Forit is a duty in all men, or in most, to hesitate upon the verge of professional life and to ascertain beyond reasonable doubt that, on entering upon it, they do not make a false step.

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