AFFILIATE BLURB
The promise of easy money and a way to stay at-home with your kids while making that income, that’s the real call of the MLM. And it got me.
MY MLM STORY
LESSONS I LEARNED FROM MLM
HOW TO SURVIVE WORKING AN MLM, CAUTION FROM THE GRAVE
YOU WILL BE PEDDLING PRODUCTS IN ANY SORT OF BUSINESS, MLM’S ARE JUST MORE DANGEROUS BECAUSE YOU ARE BETTING YOUR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS ON THE SCHEME.
We were in the middle of Brandon’s graduate school program, 2000 miles away from family, and living solely off the remnants of student loans. The first year in school was fine. We had enough money from the loans and my secretarial job at the University of Florida to get through.
But after our first child was born, we couldn’t afford our situation - financially or mentally. Childcare was more money than I was making, so I quit to stay home with Faye. I tried doing a few temp jobs in Brandon’s non-class hours, but he needed that time for projects and studying, even late at night.
We were strapped and survived making rent only through miraculous events — unexpected refunds on student loans, taking out my retirement from UF — and dinners of dried beans because that’s what we got from WIC.
After a few months we knew something had to change, so we decided to pause graduate school and move in with my parents. Days before our move I started seeing social media posts from friends about a health and wellness MLM, and how much money they were making. Being someone with
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