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We might point to the first experiments aimed at remedying the helter-skelter of careers by vocational guidance. Carried through successfully, this invention of Prof. Parsons' is one whose significance in happiness can hardly be exaggerated.
Moreover, not a few of the men with whom I came in contact with some of whom my relations were very close and friendly had at different times led rather tough careers. This fact was accepted by them and by their companions as a fact, and nothing more.
His free-and-easy tastes, his alternately impetuous and indolent disposition, his love of enjoyment and of having his own way, his rude, violent instincts, his expansiveness, creativeness and activity, all rebel against this life: he is ill-suited for the quiet routine of our civil careers.
He turned red and refused to meet her eyes. "Went wrong, Miss," he said, "and my folks wouldn't stand for it. We're all in the same boat," sweeping his arm around, "doing punishment for our misdeeds." "Do none of you ever reform?" inquired Patsy. "What's the use? We're so far away from home no one there would ever believe in our reformation. Once we become outcasts, that's the end of our careers.
Seward, Chase, and Sumner, still in the earlier stages of their brilliant careers, were organizing the great party of the future. This interval of eight years belonged to Douglas more than to any other one man.
Before his departure he had already been well known to many distinguished contemporaries. But he came home with a decidedly higher reputation. In the natural course of things, many of his contemporaries had advanced in their different careers, and were becoming arbiters and distributors of reputation.
He loved to contrast the twofold biographical paradox in the careers of the two famous rivals, Gladstone and Disraeli; the dreaming Tory mystic, incarnation of Oxford exclusiveness and Puseyite reserve, passing into the Radical iconoclast; the Jew clerk in a city lawyer's office, "bad specimen of an inferior dandy," coming to rule the proudest aristocracy and lead the most fastidious assembly in the world.
But throughout all history, the various careers of kings and emperors contain instructive lessons of Lost Opportunity.
Something more on the lines of president of some great university or ambassador at some important court struck her as his logical sphere. Kirk's view was that he should combine both careers and be an ambassador who took a few weeks off every now and then in order to defend his champion's belt. In his spare time he might paint a picture or two.
But she could not endure the idea of failing in such a cause. "Oh, Florence, I think you are so wrong," she said. "You would feel as I do, if you were in my place." "But people cannot always judge best when they feel the most. What you should think of is his happiness." "So I do; and of his future career." "Career! I hate to hear of careers. Men do not want careers, or should not want them.
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