A couple short years ago as my family was growing and my wages were shrinking, I was fed up. I had no idea what to do, it seemed like debt was just something that we dealt with. It wasn't that I hated my job (that much), I just wanted a change. My life revolved around work, not my family. I realized that just working to get back to zero was a stupid goal and that with my current situation I might not even make it to zero. That really bugged me.
Many of you may be dealing with that same reality, I can't tell you what to do about it but I can tell you what I did. I started searching. Soul searching, job searching, opportunity searching, anything that would get me out of the hole I dug. I'd been in many holes before but this one seemed permanent.
My wife and I eventually decided that we would look into real-estate investment or "flipping" houses. I read a couple books and decided I was an expert. Little did I know, you need this thing called capital. We had very little of this thing. So the search continued.
We looked into a couple of multi-level marketing opportunities, paid some application fees for some more info, listened to a couple of sales presentations. Problem was that we are in a global recession. The more I thought about it, the less appealing selling time shares and consumer memberships sounded. The opportunities themselves sounded awesome but it just wasn't something we could justify to ourselves, much less try to sell the idea to someone else.
At this point I hadn't really even been exposed to Internet marketing, my computer skills were limited to e-mails and i-tunes. So I had no idea how to market those items outside of the traditional methods for network marketing none of which I was very comfortable with.
I realized that it was going to take some more searching of my own to find the right opportunity. I did find my own opportunity, I did find something I could get behind, I'm even not afraid to admit that I struggled (a-lot). I'm not saying that my opportunity is the opportunity to end all opportunities. In fact, I market many opportunities. What I am saying is that it's possible, possible for a little furniture installer to make a difference in his life that will have a very different permanent outcome than he was facing before.
