Search for a Startup Business

I can remember, as a child and teen, my parents trying all kinds of ideas, to make an extra income, from Amway (yes even Amway) to health food, and supplements (like colloidal silver) even now today, still the same thing. My Dad owns his own businesses, and for as long as I can remember its always been on the brink of starvation, monetary-wise, as what would seem to me to be a product of their goals being far to spread out over different mediums.

I've always been concerned with having my eggs in more than one basket, but the right way to do that? Personally, I've always been shy of pyramid structures, network marketing, and get-rich-quick schemes, always promising more than they can deliver. Always requiring some type of prior investment to beginning. I wanted something that would deliver results, yes at the cost of time, but without the start-up overhead, or capital, before I could see the actual results for myself.

I've had salesmen from all walks of life, in all types of schemes try to pitch me on this or that extra income, selling this or that type of product, and to be honest, its not the products that I've had the problem with; It is the entire manner of business with which they choose to go about selling those products, and paying minimal return to their associates, for all the hard work it takes to add maybe $500 a month extra to their income stream.

This is not my preferred manner of conducting business. I wouldn't conduct my personal business that way, so why would I choose to become involved with theirs in the first place. Men and women have wasted countless hours trying to convince me that whatever they were doing was the way I was meant to go, and the way I was supposed to become successful for myself. I stand by my decision not to get involved with such schemes, I have been to their homes and heard their lectures, heard the testimonials, and seen the "big dog" of the local or state-wide structure influencing these people to continue.

From mongo juice or whatever its actually called, being God's promised manna from heaven, or whatever craziness, to Amway's new changed business name, with the same old structure, where they can brag about having generated the highest sales, or whatever it is they claim (reasonably, to me these claims went right in one ear and out the other)...

I chose, and still choose to stay as far away from involvement as possible. Maybe my childhood and teenage experiences watching my parents try time and again to make a decent extra income by such means, that I have become such a personal watchdog against them, maybe it was the fact that I was raise on the brink of poverty, while my parents were promised one big payout after another. For whatever reason, I have been content to go my own way, to work whatever job was available, to do anything in my power to prove that my decisions have been correct.


I've been searching for that opportunity (some say take all the opportunities you can get, as they come, don't pass anything up, or it will pass you by) I still retain my right to be picky and choosy about who I let rob me blind! Why? Cause I don't want to get robbed blind!

Oh my word, I could tell you so much more about the different things I have done. And I promise I will, in the next blog entry, I'll tell you about some more personal and face-to-face experiences and jobs I've had, from being a car salesman, to knocking on doors. What a wild ride. Sometimes in life it takes some very hard roads, before you find the right one.