The Attraction of Sales Jobs

The second oldest profession they say is sales. Since time immemorial, individuals have offered to others, for a price items they have owned. With the maturity of societies, property and services were bartered and with the advent of money, were sold for value. Thus, there is a history and attraction to sales jobs and the reasons are follows.
1) Ability is the investment
The greatest salesmen are those with the ability to influence others to purchase their product for their own use and enjoyment. The buyer may not even need the item to be sold, but the convincing power of the salesman would be able to ingrain in their minds the need for the product. Thus for salespersons, it is not intelligence but the innate ability to sell the idea and convince others to exchange value for it.
2) Efforts are compensated
Salespersons troll possible leads for sales. And in this forum, when sales are actually made, the salesperson earns commissions on the sale. The commission is the incentive to make sales of the product. And the more sales that one makes, the more commission one is able to earn. Thus effort is compensated when the salesperson takes their job actively and seriously.
3) Selling can be competition
Aside from the commissions, the competition for the best salesperson by volume is the ultimate prize. The crowning achievement would be recognized by the company as the one with the most sales made. Not only is this an added incentive, it is a recognition of the individual's abilities in the realm of salesmanship