Have a friend on FB, single mum who does Tupperware but hasn't had any parties yet and only has close family or friends on her page that I can see
She posted a status saying how it's so hard being a single working mum and people who live on the dole just don't understand how hard it is to go to work everyday and the mum guilt of working and missing out on her babies - you get the point
Someone called her out and she wrote back that they just do an office job and get to go home after work and go on with life whereas her work never stops and she has to be on call 24.7
I think she is being dramatic but got me thinking do you actually classify a mlm job as legitimate real work?
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Not really, not enough to shame people for working in an office or go on a rant about unemployed people anyway.
Selling Tupperware isn't even in the same league as an office or typical outside the home job.
MLM in my eyes is a hobby, something you do to earn a bit of pocket money. The only people I've seen make a real success out of it are the people higher up that actually make a salary or people who could incorporate MLM products unto their already established careers (E.g. I know a nail tech who would use Jamberry and doubled as a consultant, and a make up artist who used Avon etc).
Your friend sounds like a bit of a tit if I may be so blunt!
For a tiny proportion of people MLM is a real job (0.1%). For others it’s a hobby and for others it’s a hell of a lot if work for no return.
It’s quite possible that this poor mum has bought into the hype and is working her arse off trying to get her ‘business’ up and running, not realising she won’t get anywhere. I’ve watched some friends run themselves into the ground doing some of this crap in order to loose money.
These are the people who do it.... perhaps hear her saying she's busting her ass and not feeling the reward, and suggest alternatives. Time is money. If you're putting in, you should be seeing reward.
I used to do the Body Shop at home on top of my full time job. Considering the amount of money I earnt it was a lot of work. There is a fair bit of time involved outside of the actual party - entering orders, receiving orders and packing them (the orders didn't come already split). Then after that delivering the order and dealing with errors or customer returns etc easily had me up till after midnight some nights. So no it isn't as full on as a full time job but could easily take up the same amount as 2 to 3 days a week depending on how busy you are.
It’s the only job where you pay yourself below award wage and then try to justify to your friends how great it is and try to get them to do the same.