The professional and mercantile avenues to success are overcrowded; for the present the best chance of success awaits the intelligent worker at some mechanical trade or on a farm; for this man will almost certainly achieve industrial independence.
Roosevelt advises that practical trades offer better opportunities for success than overcrowded professional fields.
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