Glory
The glory in this line of work comes from the success of your team and hotel chain. Entrepreneurial types will love seeing their hard work pay off, and Martha Stewart types will love providing a welcoming and memorable experience for families from all over the world.
It'll be an awesome feeling to know your employees are happy with their jobs and that your guests are returning to your hotel year after year. If you work hard to be the ultimate host or hostess, the satisfaction of those invited into your hotel will be the greatest feeling you can imagine.
Then, of course, there's the knowledge that if the furnace in your home ever went out, you could just make a cozy fire with some spare hundred-dollar bills you have lying around. We don't know if successful hotel chain owners are actually doing this. But they could.