Time was when the young man or the young woman who wanted to work, went out to secure employment and took the first thing that came along and were glad to get any sort of employment.
In this age of jazz, bootleg liquor and petting parties, conditions are changed. Today the young man or young woman who starts out intent on securing some sort of work wants to know right away what sort of job it is offered. If it isn’t one that called for white collars, starched dresses or the like, including sitting in an office and giving an inpersonation of the owner of the business, they do not usually want it.
Young America today is willing to accept a position, not a job. If there is any real work to be done, the place is turned down so quick one would thing that the applicant had been handed a hot poker.
The average young man and the average young woman, even though they are not trained to do any sort of executive work, are of the opinion that their services are worth their weight in gold, so to speak. They will not deign to get down to real honest-to-goodness labor but must have a place of ease where their duties permit them to sleep until 8 o’clock every morning and arrive on the scene of action an hour or two later, then make a day of it at 4:30 or 5 o’clock that afternoon.
And Young America needn’t expect to make his or her mark in the world at that rate. The men and the women today who are going to win out are those who do the real work, arrive early and stick around until late in the day.
The soft jobs afford little remuneration and they are of short duration.
From page 4 of the Carolina Jeffersonian, Oct. 6, 1925
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