What Getting Fired From Your Job and Network Marketing Have in Common

I heard the following analogy that helps explain one of the great benefits of network marketing.

Imagine you go to your job on Monday morning and you’re sitting at your desk. Your boss comes up to you and says, “I need to talk to you for a minute. I’ve got bad news and I’ve got good news.” Uh oh… So you say, “What’s the bad news?”

Your boss says, “You’re fired.” So you ask, “What’s the good news?” “You’ve got the rest of the day off.” Then he says, “We are being forced to make cutbacks and no longer really need a person in your position… but I’ll tell you what – if you’ll help the company out and work two extra hours every day without pay, say from 5 PM to 7 PM, I’ll let you keep your job.”

That sounds like a pretty good deal, so you take it.

After a minute he says, “Since you’re being so supportive of the company, if you do this for us for the next 3 years, we’ll let you retire from your job and we’ll keep paying you your full salary for the rest of your life. How’s that sound?” Well, that sounds great, of course, so you start diligently working an extra two hours every day.

After you’ve done this for 6 months, your friends and family start laughing at you and saying things like, “Why are you working all those hours for free? You should quit and get a different job.” After two and a half years, even your spouse starts complaining that you’re working too much and says, “You’re coming home too late and not even getting paid for those hours. I want you to quit and find a better job.”

But think – you’d have to be crazy to quit with just 6 months left, so you keep on working the longer hours, don’t you? Of course you do. You’ll soon be able to retire and have all the free time that comes with retirement, and have an income for life too!

Unfortunately, your job probably doesn’t offer this deal… but network marketing does. Where else can you build a solid, long-term residual income from a part-time effort? if you put in the consistent effort every day just like the deal in the story, in just a few years you could retire from your job.