What Would It Mean For You If Feeling Appreciated Was Your Strongest Motivator?

My first job out of high school I worked for a now-defunct drug store chain. I made $1.80 an hour.

-I managed the beer & wine department, deciding how much product to buy and how to set the displays for each week's sales.
-When nearly everyone else quit over the holidays, I worked from 9AM till midnight, 7 days a week for 5 weeks. That's 105 hours/week. My overtime rate was $2.70/hour.
-We sold mulch and fertilizer. One afternoon a flatbed of it rolled in, fresh out of a rain storm. I was the only one working. I'd hate to guess how much I unloaded, one 50# bag at a time. It was well over a ton (40 bags)...maybe a few tons.

So I'd guess at $1.80/hour, I was not being transactional, huh?

And I agree about being in sales. I would have loved to be a manufacturer's rep, but to actually sell stuff directly to people as though my product was everyone's solution would make me feel dirty.

 

Yeah, @Thomas Stillhere, cats aren't known for being appreciative as much as I love them. Rather than thank you's, it's more like...

"It's about damn time."
"What? I had that last week!"
"Nope. I don't care if you paid more than $2 a can. I ain't gonna eat it."