began looking for work in the Cleveland commercial world. The economic realities of his life dictated that he would have to start out working for others. In his mind, that was a temporary matter. He was first employed as a clerk and bookkeeper for two merchants, Hewitt and Tuttle, who specialized in shipping produce. At his job interview, "not a word was said about salary: 'I cared very little about that,' he has recorded. Later, his wage was fixed at $3.50 a week...The best part of his pay came from experience."
Rockefeller sensed from the beginning that there was no point in working for anyone else except as a means of learning how to run a business of his own. The reason he cared so little about his salary at Hewitt and Tuttle was that he had no intention of remaining a salaried employee for the rest of his life. The firm he joined was well run, and he considered it to be a good place to further his business education. Therefore, the firm he worked for was either paying him very little in cash or providing him with a business educati
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