On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 18:17:29 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I enjoyed trying but soon realized I was never meant to be in retail sales.


That is why IBM paid more for "customer contact" people than they did
for engineers who lived in a lab or a plant. Dealing with customers
takes a certain finesse.
It is also why my wife was so successful in the building biz. She
could sell the upgrades, build the house and close it walking the
customer along the whole way.
She is actually jumping back in as we speak, working for a builder she
knows.