No it doens't sound familiar at all for me. My "addiction" to MLM
had NOTHING to do with my self esteem at all. And now I want to
look up my own posts to see if it could have come off that way...
For me, it preyed on my work experiences.
Right out of school, I was selling celluar phones. It was
commissioned and hard core. The other sales people would absolutely
LIE to people to get them to sign up. We had to get 40 NEW
actiations a month. In a small town where everyone had cell phones,
it was hard to do that. So they wanted us to open the phone book
and call people at random (I think that disregard the whole "Do Not
call list" thing, so I wouldn't do it.) So since I wouldn't lie to
people or break the law, I couldn't get 40 new activations, so I was
fired.
Then I got a job in my field as a Paralegal. About a year later, he
decided to close his Erie office and focus on his bigger Pittsburgh
office (I worked in Erie)
Then I worked at a mortgage company. When the mortgage boom fell,
my job was eliminated. (I had the least seniority)
Then I worked for a non-profit HUD program. After a year, the city
decided not to fund the program. SO my job was eliminated. There
was no money to pay me.
Then I worked at a Medicaid Managed Care company. After a year, the
shareholders decided it wasn't profitable enough, even though it was
doing well. So they closed the company.
See a pattern here? I couldn't find a job that would stick for much
more than a year. So for me the idea that I could be resoponsible
for my own income sounded great. No more lost funding, shareholders
pulling out or attorneys giving up on the office. No more
fulfilling quotas or you are out... it seemed like job security.
THAT was what I was after.
SO my addiction was to finding the business that was going to
provide that for me. Avon didn't do it, so I tried Tupperware..
that didn't do it so I tried Home Interiors...
forth.
I felt that I was smart, educated, capable and worthy of making a
decent living. What I really needed to do was move out of a town
where everything was going out of business... literally, companies
are closing every day in Erie.
So I moved and got a real job someplace that is thriving.
I was looking for a stable job to make what I am worth.... not
looking to boost any self-esteem issues.
My job losses were really not my fault. It was a matter of
circumstances beyond my control.
I think MLM exploits whatever weakness you have...
Low self-esteem can certainly be one of them. They promise that you
will make friends, become a millionaire and everyone will look up to
you.
If it's the economy, they exploit the fact that you are your own
boss, again the so-called millions to be made, etc.
If you are bored or a stay at home mom, they promise adult
interaction and mommy-time away from the house and kids.
Whatever your objection, they've got a line for it. MLM saves us
all from ourselves or our circumstances ... or so the recruiters say.
It's all a crock of $%$#&*@!
Vicki
--- In mlmsurvivorsclub@
<steve.indepass@
>
> I'm just saying that a common thread in stories I've read here and
the people I've personally
> met in the real world who either are in, or were in MLM /
NM 'businesses' is low self-
> confidence / self-esteem.
>
> I personally believe that MLM/NM exploits that. I know that I
nearly got involved in MLM a
> long time ago - partly because I lacked the assertiveness - or
self-confidence - to tell the
> recruiter 'No!'. And I think I lacked self-esteem, too. I felt
flattered, or cared about by the
> person recruiting..
Until it got to the point that I
> woke up.
>
> The recruiting process I experienced capitalised on my inability
to say no. The longer it went
> on that I didn't tell the guy to take a hike, the harder it got
and the more intensive the
> recruitment. Is that familiar to anyone?
>
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