I'd say I'm primarily self-motivated.  I want to do my best as much as possible.
The carrot side from the employer tends to be a couple things for me, a...

Myself, I came up from the operations side of the fence.
My initial college education was in architectural drafting, I took a job with a small mail-order computer parts company...

The problem is, you've got you're code inside a "SET @sql=" block, so what's happening is when it hits the single quote around your /, it thinks that's the end...

Couple possibilities.
First, I'd bet that your workplace firewall (not the firewall in Windows, this would be your workplace router / firewall) isn't configured to allow the SQL port through...