TALKS WITH A KID BROTHER
And that brings me to speak of what might be my firstly if I had arranged this in true sermon form and had not already got almost half through.
Find your own job—whatever else you do or don't do in this more or less cruel world, through this more or less sad vale of tears—find the job that you were meant for, whatever that may be. It may take you a long time to find it, and you may get it only after a long and perplexing process of elimination, but keep on till you get it. I have no sympathy with the doctrine of repression. It makes neither for happiness nor usefulness. Many men have become useful citizens and tolerably happy after marrying the wrong girl, but only a few when their job is a misfit. Right here I know I should be frowned upon by those who suffer from an enlarged sense of Duty, those who are given to rather vulgar exposure of the conscience and spell Self-Abnegation in caps and pronounce it so you can hear the hyphen. But all the same I have noticed that those who have been useful and happy in
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