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Friends of mine in all walks of life can‘t understand how I can stand teaching as a vocation. With striking originalâ€" ity, they ask: ‘"How can you stand it?"" â€" So, with another 10 months of my chosen way of life un der way, I thought I‘d look at it, andâ€"try to give them an answer. - s < Perhaps, we could start with elimination. It would take an act of God, or a change of sex, or something equally draâ€" matic, to make me an engineer. I have just completed the job of trying to change a typewriter ribbon. It took me 39 minutes. I wound up with ink all over my fingers, my face, and a clean shirt. And guess what came out when I began typing? Red words. It was one of those halfâ€"red, halfâ€"black ribbons, and I‘d got it upside bassackwards. The only reaâ€" son you are reading this in black is that it is being reproâ€" duced by someone else. L £ e 1 L . 2000 l 0 c 404.s naw mantimna a fat nstnetatncions. . " Albridhitobbetbudnlndnctinchaibnoata My lack of engineering skills precludes my making a fat living where the real money is these days: as a repair man. I‘ you have a son or daughter pondering a career, for the dear goodness‘ sake, steer it into fixing things â€" plumbing, electricity, TV, cars. Took my lawnmower to a repairman the other day. It wouldn‘t start. Picked it up three days later. The bill was $41.16 â€" one dollar and 16 cents more than half what I had paid for the new machine a few years ago. The bill for labor was $27. You could have a baby for that not so terribly long ago. ~ 3 ME n l in T i 1204 0 1404 & oc actcininindics" Asicaints. ~ Siuts. â€" Jnt â€" I‘ve never wanted to be a scientist. Can‘t see spending my life in a lab trying to find a new additive that will make clothes whiter than white or a new chemical that will make deodorant dryer than ever. & Medicine, since I have never had a secret desire to be God, held little appeal for me. It‘s a noble profession, and you can make a pile of money by peering into people‘s aperâ€" N esd Le L AL _ tIkad asnnuat and weit. ]W 00 O llbi bicabicbitiicait} identutlibceatiinhictubiiens. dnc 25 ui C P i & SS Pm tures, probing their flab, making their blood spurt, and writâ€" the pros and cons of smoking. The final resuilt: you ve been ing prescriptions among other things. None of those thing$. conned. turn me on, though. . 2 im This year, readers and occasional browsers, marks the Dentistry, ditto. I can see no particular charm in standâ€" fifth anniversary of my stupidity. I have been smoking, offâ€" ing at an angle most acrobats couldn‘t maintain for 10 SECâ€" and.on, for five years now, paying a monthly alimony to my onds, gawking at gums and crumbling renovations. One 100Kk former lovers. the cigarette manufacturers, ever since. into my own mouth would give me nightmares for a week. Not only is it not healthy, it is also not deductible! To heck with the $50,000 a year. There is hope for this lost soul. I must admit with a relucâ€" Then there‘s the law, of course. There‘s a great deal Of tance nurtured in years (five, to be exact) of fooling myself. poppycock about the majesty and the integrity of the laW. 1 realize the dangers smoking can cause, both physical and All of it stems from lawyers and judges. But I wouldn‘t care social, and have been trying to kick the habit for the last to be associated in a profession where there is, despite all year. â€" «m disclaimers, one law for the rich and another for the poor. " 11 is a whole lot easier to puff that first cigarette than to Shakespeare said it nicely: "Let them hang all tlll’e.lawflyers. /\ butt that last one out, ‘ll tell you. _ ' We PE C snn n n aO EOO e O C O 0 sn " I Another field that brings in a mighty good buck is accountâ€" ing. But where‘s the future in that for a fellow who can‘t even account to his own wife for the way he behaved at the party on Saturday night? L la one Gal ts Hi.svbina far tha anu. | chohabr Alrticbabataabbent Auun uy Quite a good career these days is ‘"working for the govâ€" ernment." Certainly you‘ll never be fired, unless you turn up drunk four days in a row and rape four different secreâ€" taries. Even then, you‘d probably just be "transferred to a less sensitive area,"" or put out to pasture on a pension. When I was a student, we used to say scornfully that if you couldn‘t do anything else, you went into the ministry. This was a base canard, of course, but the delights of the parâ€" sonage never teally got me excited. I wouldn‘t have minded pounding the old pulpit a bit, but I couldn‘t have stood the old biddies and the backâ€"stabbers and the constant mendiâ€" canting. 1 sns 2o2 . oo eaprener o# Mustick cany‘‘ty What I thought I might be was a professor of English. Sit around in a bookâ€"filled study, dispense wisdom to awed students, and give the occasional brilliant lecture. Well I‘ve since met some of my old friends who chose that path. They‘re more boring than the guy who comes to fix my furâ€" nace. What L really and truly wanted to do when I was young and romantic was to become a foreign correspondent. Influenced by movies, I wanted the works: trench coat, snap brim felt hat. bylines from Hong Kong and Nairobi. RTOTER I'J Aol en on ee esd on C Nearest 1 got to that was editing the country corresponâ€" dence from contributors to a smallâ€"town weekly. That wasn‘t try just can‘ t win. For example. for most of us the really bad news is that unemployment is up and rising. possibly on a spiral towards 100 per cent But the economists have a different worry: that even those Canadians who are employed are not employed properly. , JE ELE Y C L n l EPA sns Lo Sm n e oo o e eg n Ece a The economists point out that, in 1931. about 56 per cent of all Canadian workers were busy, turning out some form of real goods. Today. the percentage has fallen to only 41 per cent. Or. to put the same thing another way. close to 60 per cent of our workers are employed in jobs like barbering. television repairs teaching or tourism known as service industries This isn‘t the best possible news for Canadians beâ€" cause the only way everyone‘s liteâ€"style improves is for productivity to improve as well Productivity in the service industries can be increased over time. but it can‘t be increased quickly Consequently an economy which is heavily involved in the service Economically speaking there are days when a counâ€" â€" SMITHS FALLS â€" Like the ancient Roman said in those days of yore, when Caesar was more than a salad. ‘let the buyer beware â€" _ _ f & 5 bad vocation, except that you worked 60â€"0dd hours a week and never made any money. I guess my secret desire for years was to be a writer. Preferably a pipeâ€"smoking enormously popular, immensely wealthy one, several times divorced, a world traveler. a lecturer in great demand, yet with a depth, a plus ‘quality in my novels that would put me up there with Hardy, (-3:1; ' 1 DP C oo DP NS mensaale Fiy 26 lll, C1 4 ud 2 ..A c hoh ¢ dudcwintatit whatc insd is Aanane M rad, Hemingway. With three or four of my novels turned into smash hits on Breadway and in Hollywood. And all my own hair and teeth. The same rule applies for smokers, and ‘those of us who can only be called nicotine addicts. No body laid. down the rules when we took our first puff: That first cigarette lookâ€" ed like a chalienge, and we certainly weren‘t chicken. Five years later, look who‘s the turkey! . ¢f 1 can remember when I was but a mere lad. barely out of shortpants and into the teenage scene. Acceptance was what we all were looking for those turbulent years between puberâ€" ty and adulthood (thought 1 was going to say adultery, didn‘t vou?), and we succumbed to peer pressure pretty easy in those days. The withâ€"it people in my school smoked and it looked like a cool thing to get into. I mean being part of the ‘in‘ crowd is something every outsider is hoping for . 1 1 Sm So Ne s nc n P L s Yon‘; wc:);g;;d'tl;e'fl;stâ€" time ifihaTing became part of the acceptance ritual, and remember stifling those embarrassâ€" ing chokes the second. third and fourth times you lit up. I Aell L D n o t o n td sds blds 1 hsnb stutidiinaisbndiiindralints dul i dnA oc I C © As the morning-sicknes7s hacks started to come with daily regularity, you counted on those nicotineâ€"stained fingers the pros and cons of smoking. The final result: you‘ve been This year, readers and occasional browsers, marks the fifth anniversary of my stupidity. L have been smoking, offâ€" andâ€"on, for five years now, paying a monthly alimony to my former lovers. the cigarette manufacturers, ever since. Not only is it not healthy, it is also not deductible! 1 s L 1 o+ o g) n Liberal Party Line A federal election is not expected until next spring, but the campaign has already started in the new Waterloo riding. Political parties are gearing up for nomination meetings. The Waterloo Progressive Conservatives will probably nominate Richard Hobâ€" son as candidate next month. Waterloo riding Liberals plan their nominatron meeting for March or April. This will be a keenly conâ€" tested meeting with several candidates seeking the nomination. At this time, four local people, David Cooke, Frank Epp, Brian Kirkham and Doreen Thomâ€" as, are seriously interested. + trades can‘t improve its national standard of living as quickly as an economy which is more involved with physical production. ' David Cooke is a Kitchener lawyer who lives in Waâ€" terloo. He is president of the Kitchener Federal Lib eral Association and has been active in the party for many years. ‘l-)rJ i’vr'a-nvl.t Epp is president of Conrad Grebel Colâ€" lege, a Waterloo resident, author of several books and articles, and is active in the Mennonite communiâ€" ty. Brian Kirkham is a teacher at Queensmount P.S. in Kitchener and a Woolwich resident. He was Libâ€" shos Ausinnd o 0 Before you sell your Canadian holdings and move to Ecuador. however. you deserve some additional inforâ€" mation that the economists have largely ignored. The statistical trends can be explained by two social developments: the decline in agricultural employment and the rise in government employment. Once agriâ€" culture and government are eliminated from the laâ€" bour statistics. it turns out that employment in the commodityâ€"producing sector has actually gone up by 7 per cent while employment in the service industries has fallen by the same amount since 1931 If you find the increase in government employment and the decline in agricultural employment disturbâ€" ing. the Canadian Federation of Independent Business has some comforting thoughts. The Federation points out that government‘s growth in the future will be confined by the slower growth rate of the economy Waterloo Chronicle, Wednesday, September 28, 1977 â€" Only trouble with thal wiSn WaSs lllidl 1 Wao UV iday. UH. thée talent was Eaere No question about that, as we novelâ€" writers manque can assure anyone. So instead of becoming a Hemingway, I became Bill Smiley, a chronicler ‘of the tribulations and the trivia of the midâ€"20th century. And not a whit bitter or disillusioned about it. O ;l"i;t;ééh’t'quite enough to keep a body alive, so I became a teacher. Not only becn&tfioit other professions fill me with nausea or loathing. But because I like young people, words, ideas, and two months holidays. > â€". _ â€" Ridiculous is the thought of anyone being controlled by three inches of rolled tobacco. If smoking is a bad jokethen L, as well as other puffers, are the punch lines. Three months ago. Lyla. who I‘ve mentioned before, and Susan, who is debuting this week. and I made a pact to give up smoking. f 1 U3 & s n e Un RR LCOA Wninns nald ‘IP w2 RTCCCC a . 'l‘h'ulkiupg’e that ‘united we stand is better than going cold turkey on the solo plan, we were to finish our last smoke at midnight. ~ e % 2 D: dn 150 o a§tc CA E.0 GL _ nalma 'thzio a.m.. I started to have the shakes with a calm Lyla showing no outward sign of nicotine craving. Ten bours later:; 1 became a nonâ€"participant. buying a pack in desperaâ€" non. ~ â€" The other two fared better, but finished just as bad with one going two days and the other surviving for two weeks. The names have been omitted to protect the weak of will. 1 am still at it, after a week of weaning myself off the smokes with cheap cigars. Valiant as it may have seemed at the outset, that experiment bit the dust with those filterâ€" ed builets returning to play suicide games with my lungs, or what‘s left of them. Lam tryrn.gvag;;nhopmg this one will be a success. I am getting quite tired of being a coughing turkey for the beneâ€" fit of tobacco companies that con us (smokersn all in. No playing games this time. No bets to see who‘s the betâ€" ter man (read that, better cheater), just an honest effort within myself to confront the truth. It won‘t be the easiest thing to do. but something that should be done. 1 1 T 1 usn O agie O e L Lf Lo n evman niblsisint â€" Abuivliiondds fls bada it t ons â€" ocm If any of ‘you just started smoking. give up before you enter a coughâ€"aâ€"thon a couple of years from new. As far as acceptance is concerned, ifâ€"you‘re required to smoke to be ‘in‘it‘s better to be dutside of the smokeâ€"filled room then.~ Before 1 leave to 'sa;tâ€"r‘n} pacing in nervous frustration, good luck to those in the same boat with this seafarer. If we are both successful in our quest, let‘s !:ave lunch some time. I can promise the food will taste a lot better at that future time. * â€" Meanwhile. as fossil fuel costs go higher and higher, agriculture will rediscover the value of human labour as opposed to machines. > * Agriculture is highly dependent. in its present form. on fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are used to make pesticides, fungicides. fertilizers and the gasoline to run the machines. But there‘s a growing trend towards organâ€" ic farming. the type that doesn‘t use chemical pestiâ€" cides or fertilizers; this kind of farming needs more human labour. And. with gasoline prices reaching close to a dollar a gallon already. it begins to make sense to use more workers to replace machines in orthodox farming About 6 per cent of the Canadian work force is presâ€" ently involved in farming. By 1990,. the Canadian Fedâ€" eration of Independent Business believes. that figure could reach 10 per cent Possibly a new era of human productivity is just beâ€" ginning Doreen Thomas of Wateriloo has been a trustee with the Waterloo County Board of Education since 1970. She is also the local president of Commitment Canada and a director of the Waterloo Federal Libâ€" eral Association. The new Waterioo riding encomâ€" passes the city of Waterloo, the townships of Woolâ€" wich, Wellesley and Wilmot, and part of the city of Kitchener. Based on 1974 election results, the Lib erals hold the edge in the riding. This, plus the curâ€" rent popularity of the party and Prime Minister Trudeau, has made the riding an appealing prospect for potential candidates. eral candidate in 1974 in the riding of Wellingtonâ€" Greyâ€"Dufferinâ€"Waterloo. He also served one term on Woolwich council. ‘ The association‘s eandidate search committee is continuing to function and other candidates may come forth in the upcoming months. As the interest mounts in the race for the nomination, the number of people holding membership in the association is expected to reach record levels. ith that wish was that 1 was too lazy. Oh By Bob Ernest President, Waterlooâ€"Wellington District Liberal Association _