There were many young printers in New York who had likewise come to the metropolis, and he could only find short-term work.[7] In 1832, Greeley worked as an employee of the publication Spirit of the Times.[8] He built his resources and set up a print shop in that year. In 1833, he tried his hand with Horatio D. Sheppard at editing a daily newspaper, the New York Morning Post, which was not a success. Despite this failure and its attendant financial loss, Greeley published the thrice-weekly Constitutionalist, which mostly printed lottery results.[9]