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THE TRUE FACTS
OFMYOWN
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Continuing from the April number, "Converslon: Sudden
Experience or Lifelong Process?" Nearly everyone is mixed up on this matter of
personal salvation. lt's made plain in this article.
A
age 16 I became filled with
AMBITION.
1
was on my fiist
summer job away from home.
My employer put his hand on my
shoulder and said, "Herbert. you're
going to make a great success in the
world. You have unusual talents
and abilities- if you'll just put them
to work.
1
have great confidence in
you.
It
will mean continuous study
all your life, hard work, diUgence–
but you've got it in you, and l know
you'll make it."
True or not,
1
believed him.
J
was
fired with ambition- and ambit ion
is the DESIRE,
plus
the willpower to
ORIVE oneself on to accomplish–
ment. This also automatically gener–
ated within me g r cat SELF–
CONFIDENCE. 1 KNEW
1
could! I was
DETERMINED
J
WOULD!
Now wasn't this a fine thing to
arouse in a boy of 16? Wasn't it a
fine way for a boy to start out in
life? We shall see!
Choosing a Vocation
At 18 1 ran across a book in the Des
Moines (where
1
was born and
brought up) Public Library. lts title
was
Choosing a Vocation.
1 took the
book out on my library card.
It
took
me through a thorough self-analysis
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by
Herbert W. Armstrong
PART
of talents, aptitudes, abilities,
strengths and weaknesses, faults to
be overcome, likes and dislikes. lt
took me also through a thorough
analysis of the differing require–
ments of various vocations, profes–
sions, businesses and jobs.
1
felt l
was choosing skillfully.
1
chose AD–
VERTISING and JOURNALISM as my
hle profession.
And I went at it with zest and
enthusiasm. 1 chose my own jobs.
First I started in want ads on a daily
newspaper. I didn ' t ask for a job- 1
just told the want-ad manager 1 was
going to work for him. l used my
head on the job.
1
worked hard, at a
fast pace. Soon l was taking so
much advertising away from the old
Register Leader,
the leading want–
ad medium, that they tried to hire
me away from the
Evening Capital
at $2 per week higher salary.
Then I decided to spend three
years with the
Merchants' Trade
Journal,
largest trade journal in the
U.S. Again I "hired myself a job.' '
They didn't need any help. But with
assurance, confidence, enthusiasm
and sorne salesmanship, 1 got the
job. With them I wrote advertising
copy, studied style in writing; I
toured the United States as an edi–
torial representative. In my articles I
pioneered the public opinion polls
which Ied to all of today's polls,
from Gallup, Harris, and on to doz–
ens of others.
Then I opened an office in the
Loop in Chicago (heart of the
downtown district) as a publishers'
representative for all the leading
bank journals. For the next seven
years in tbis business I had my chief
contacts with the presidents and
board chai rmen of the largest banks
of South La Salle Street, and of
The
PLAIN TRUTH M
ay
1977