the job he always wanted to do was to be a lawyer. he grew up being a lawyer. he did it on and off.
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Lincoln's first paying job was bringing cargo up and down the Mississippi river. (He previously worked on the family farm but was not paid for the work.)
His family moved to Indiana in December of 1816, so he was 7 years old.
George Washington's first career was a surveyor
There is no hard evidence that Lincoln every uttered these words, but people do say that he said them. What is means is to try be good at whatever you do. It is like the boy scout motto, "Do your best". Do a good job at whatever you are doing.
It never did. The newly-formed Confederacy could claim that it didn't want a war. Lincoln could not declare war on the Confederacy without recognising it as a sovereign nation. All he could do was to announce that he was putting down a rebellion of certain of his own states, and that he would need volunteer troops to do the job. That is how the war started.