Chuckle.. so should we assume your wife didn't make enough to get a free car?
Apparently a few of them (Avon), besides Mary Kay, provide dreams of this to many.
When you think about it - to start a business like that yourself, you do have to F-OVER you closest friends and family I suppose.
I remember a few years ago I was getting disability insurance (basically the same thing). The rep was building quite a force. I liked him as a person - not a forceful salesperson. This kind of insurance is one of the most difficult to get - they even ask about your "parent's" and "sibling's" health if you can believe that. "Do you engage in skydiving?" Well I am at least covered myself regardless of where I work. (plus a 4% increase per year if I become disabled! - all tax free)
At any rate, I suggested I was no longer interested in this programming racket, and he stated I could start in the insurance game. Basically one policy at a time - that is how he built his business. He wouldn't make a huge number from my policy, but again it was one of the many. (Many people tend to think this is peanut shit - whereas the big thinker slowly plods ahead building fortunes that take years - while building their future). (Reminds me of Lou on the movie Wall Street - "Putnum Drug"...)
The hook "well you could first start selling policies to your co-workers". Well the place I was at there were only two - I wasn't at the time in a programming shop. I never persued it. Lotta work at my age to start selling insurance policies. 10 years earlier - he probably would have had me. I would have kept working - sold it to my co-workers then leave to do it full time.
Regrets.. I've had a few..
The future is not ours you see.. can't stand that song nor actress....
Blake
"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
Tuco (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
"An umbrella with holes is better than no umbrella at all."
Dr. Alexander Elder on using stops.
