{"id":255,"date":"2007-02-27T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T04:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2007-02-27T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T04:14:11","slug":"work-from-home-make-3000-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/work-from-home-make-3000-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Work from home, make $3000 a week"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was sucked in to an hour long pyramid scheme pitch at Tully’s.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, 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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}