I was sucked in to an hour long pyramid scheme pitch at Tully’s.

Don’t get me wrong, the guy was nice and all. But I thought he was starting a company and needed someone to manage his development team, or his eCommerce site. Turns out it was a pitch to work from home to sell products to people for a company called Market America, and eventually manage my own team of salespeople. I should have clued in when a few simple questions to him didn’t immediately reveal his business plan, or what he wanted me to do for them.

Now it was an interesting pitch, and I don’t think it was any less interesting than watching an episode of Battlestar Gallactica. But I kind of feel silly for getting nervous before the meeting, like I did when I “interviewed” for cutco knives after college and it ended up being an hour long sales pitch on how to sell knives to friends and family.

Oh well, I’m sure that for some people that these things are wildly successful and I don’t begrudge anyone in this land of capitalism and entrepreneurship their piece of the pie. I’m just glad I realize what I’m good at and I don’t have to schlep products for someone else.