Home-based businesses are hotter than ever before. It’s the law of supply and demand hard at work. People want to work from home, so the demand for home-business opportunities has skyrocketed. These people are flocking to everything from franchises to network marketing and everything in between. New opportunities crop up every day to meet the requests of these people who desperately want to work from their home office, kitchen table or even living room floor – anywhere but that cubicle in that office building with that boss and those coworkers.
Chances are, you’re one of those individuals on a mission to ditch your job for a better way of life. But can a home-business work for you? Is there really a chance for the ordinary person with extraordinary desire?
Greg Montoya, a successful home-business owner, had been looking for the answer to that question since an early age. All he ever wanted was to have his own business, having dabbled in self-employment with a paper route and selling candy bars as a child.
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But, he learned in school that the acceptable way to earn a living as an adult was through traditional employment, not by wasting his time on money-making opportunities that seemed to have no future.
So he took a job as a machinist, referring to the position as “the safety zone.” It paid well and the money was even better after he celebrated a hard-earned promotion to management. But, as happens to thousands of people every day, a new administration took over the company and Greg’s life changed dramatically.
They brought along someone else for his management position, so they gave him his old position as a machinist along with a reduced salary. This left him feeling betrayed and defeated. “Over 10 years worth of loyal service down the drain,” remembers Greg. “I resolved right then that no one would ever control my paycheck again. The thought of spending the rest of my life working for other people only to make them rich made me feel ill.”
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