Multilevel whut?

And thus our 17 year old begins his foray into the world of multilevel marketing (MLM).

He is brought to a few business development meetings, big halls full of people who are willing enough to listen to what, at surface glance seems to be a rather contrived and silly idea.

The speakers are brought out. This time its a couple who have made it, really made it in the business. An engineer and businesswoman were what they did for a living before joining the MLM. So it was basically a lot of talking, personal experience and showing off pictures of the latest countries they have visited. In other words, they were basically trying to say 'we can do it so can you' and 'see how fun it is to be like us'.

The 17 year old wasn't thouroughly impressed... especially when they started showing off their holiday pix

But yet, he wasn't willing to forsake the MLM yet, something kept urging him to go forward into what all his better instincts told him was utter bull.

Which then brought him to the 'weekend leadership seminar'. The so-called rejuvenation function which is held every 3 months. The whole premise of the weekend leadership seminar is to motivate (or brainwash rather) existing members to strive harder and uninitiated members to well.. become... initiated.

But strangely enough our 17 year old came back from that 2-day seminar (which he had to pay 150 bucks for) with a new outlook on life, a changed perspective..(in other words, he was bought/ motivated/ brainwashed). He decided that, 'yeah, i can handle this MLM shit! Bring it on!!'

So he got the starter pack (costing some 85 bucks or so) and he tried pitching the ideas to a few of his friends, mostly other 17 year olds. Though he managed to convince them, but few ever did follow up. Then he tried it on older friends, but to no avail either. So he thought,' well, maybe i'll just sell the products and make a small profit.....

And then it hit him. In order to purchase products, he needed to draw cheques. In order to draw cheques he needed a checking bank account. And in order to have a checking bank account, he needed to be 18.

So our roving 17 year olds dreams have to be put on a hold due to the sad fact that he isn't ....ergh... 'old' enough to run the business...yet. Though he could beg his mum and dad to sponsor himl... which is pretty difficult since mum and dad are not convinced of the business either.

so our 17 year old searches for other opportunities to get rich.

to be continued.....