I grew up in Detroit, MI. The Motor City. When my parents divorced, my mom and I moved to the suburbs because the neighborhood where I grew up in was getting dangerous and I was having problems at school.
School was much harder in the suburbs. I was an A and B student in the city, but not in the new school. It seemed as if they were way ahead and I struggled. But, despite the difficulties, and a few bad choices on my part, I did manage to graduate. After high school I went to work.
For years I worked low paying general labor type jobs in stores and factories. Along the way, I stumbled in to a job as an electrical assistant at a place where they made automated seat belt test machines. I learned a lot from the guy I was assisting. But a lay-off ended that education. So, a few more jobs in factories and stores. Then came my big break.
I got a job as an electrical trainee because of my prior experience. I was helping the electricians install controls and wireways on newly built assembly lines for the Big 3 Automakers. That was huge. They even sent me to school. At 30 years old, I finally had a career, not just another job. But, once again, lay-off. I couldn’t afford to continue school, as they had been paying for half of the tuition. But now, I had experience and a little bit of education in the field. It wasn’t long before I had another job. This time it was a temporary assignment through a technical staffing agency. I worked on and off for years.
Years of working hard, putting in 40-70 hours a week, countless lay-offs, working for a ton of technical staffing agencies going from shop to shop building and wiring automated assembly equipment for the auto industry and making other people rich. Then nothing. Less and less work, more and more debt.
With the auto industry jobs leaving the state, I was able to get help from the state with job training and got certified to repair computers. Unfortunately, I had training, but no experience. So, when I finally found a job, I ended up working for a staffing service. It lasted four months, than ended. That was back in February of 2008. I haven’t had a regular job since.
While surfing the internet for jobs, I kept running into ‘work from home’ type jobs. Most of them seemed too good to be true. The majority of them were. Then I found one. It was a major company that needed distributors for their health and wellness products. I would be an independent contractor. I was used to that from all my years of temporary assignments as a contract employee. But, with this, I could work my own schedule. Be my own boss. So, I signed up and got started.
I quickly learned that it wasn’t quite as easy as they made it sound. I tried to follow my sponsor’s advice, but did not make one sale or find a single person interested in joining my team.
So, I thought I would take it to the internet and give that a try. But again, I did not make one sale or find a single person interested in joining my team. I was clueless as to how this all worked. I spent a ton of money I couldn’t afford and took a lot of advice from a lot of people who claimed they had “the key” to MLM success. But after wasting a bunch of money and time, I still had nothing to show for it.
Then I found a group of successful internet marketers who had launched their own education and marketing system. They modeled it after the system they were using to make five figures a month. Their phenomenal training and business opportunity enabled me to become a full time network marketer and work from the comfort of my own home. No more commuting, no more lay-offs, a lot less stress and above all…FREEDOM.
Along the way, I have been working on building a team of like-minded individuals working together for a common goal; to be in control of our own future.
