Relating to this point, is Enterprise Rent-A-Car simply McDonald's-prise Rent-A-Car? Are situations of managing an ERAC Branch similar or identical to managing a McDonald's? Are ERAC employees simply McDonald's employees who shirts and ties instead of vests and funny hats? The answer to all of these questions is an unequivocal yes. Yet, this is not to say that neither career is valuable, because they both contain elements and nuggets of value, should the individual employee be savvy enough to glean their value. This is why am never angered or offended when treated with little respect or outright disdain by customers. I am realistic enough to know that my career has not elevated me to a position worthy of the respect of most of my customers, namely people with "real" post-undergraduate or graduate traditional careers (with personal offices or cubicles instead of a front counter, with their own phone line with a personal voicemail, who attend meetings to strategize and forecast, not to just get yelled at or threatened after work every so-often when the "numbers look bad," and who don't have to deal with the general public). I never let wearing my shirt and tie fool me into thinking I'm some kind of business executive or corporate hot-shot (as do some of my ERAC brethren), I fully realize what I do is merely an extension of working at Foot Locker or at the pet store after high school -- as the ERAC business model for the rank Branch Manager or below is quite similar to these, except it requires 60 hours of work per week and for me to call it my "career" to my co-workers and employees, and my "great career" to upper-management or interviewees.