Don't Try To Sell Me Things
I met up with an ex-colleague last night to catch up on things.
Or so I thought.
After all the real catch-up, she began to ask if she could share something with me, if I don't mind. I didn't have a chance to respond and she whip up an A5 size calendar looking chart and took out a piece of paper out of it.
I was surprised, "Wah, nowadays you bring pen and paper wherever you go huh?" She replied, "yah lor..." and trailed off.
And she presented me a sales pitch about concepts, and that a certain education system is a really useful tool for her to realise "things". And as she go on and on, I realised she is pitching Amway to me +again+.
I was very tempted to sign up after her presentation. Afterall, who doesn't want to earn money by buying things that I need everyday and earn money (on top of the free air tickets, refundable membership, and lots of nice people I would meet)? What more, it seemed the way to make money the non-linear way ("If you think about it, all of us have been working in a linear" after she heard me describing that I've been going horizontal with my job options) I seemed like THE person who knows what is going on and is going to enjoy the benefits that comes with it.
It was not after I spend sometime after the meeting (late into the night at 2am in fact) doing research on the company that I remembered why I rejected her the other time. And I plan to turn her down again.
It's a precarious move that I will be making here, I know she'd be pissed. Afterall, after hearing my sharing about my situation (job/life in general), she'd think I'd be the perfect candidate for her downline, why am I not taking this opportunity to start my own business?
Oh well, if this friendship cannot weather this difference, I don't think it's friendship.
Or so I thought.
After all the real catch-up, she began to ask if she could share something with me, if I don't mind. I didn't have a chance to respond and she whip up an A5 size calendar looking chart and took out a piece of paper out of it.
I was surprised, "Wah, nowadays you bring pen and paper wherever you go huh?" She replied, "yah lor..." and trailed off.
And she presented me a sales pitch about concepts, and that a certain education system is a really useful tool for her to realise "things". And as she go on and on, I realised she is pitching Amway to me +again+.
I was very tempted to sign up after her presentation. Afterall, who doesn't want to earn money by buying things that I need everyday and earn money (on top of the free air tickets, refundable membership, and lots of nice people I would meet)? What more, it seemed the way to make money the non-linear way ("If you think about it, all of us have been working in a linear" after she heard me describing that I've been going horizontal with my job options) I seemed like THE person who knows what is going on and is going to enjoy the benefits that comes with it.
It was not after I spend sometime after the meeting (late into the night at 2am in fact) doing research on the company that I remembered why I rejected her the other time. And I plan to turn her down again.
It's a precarious move that I will be making here, I know she'd be pissed. Afterall, after hearing my sharing about my situation (job/life in general), she'd think I'd be the perfect candidate for her downline, why am I not taking this opportunity to start my own business?
Oh well, if this friendship cannot weather this difference, I don't think it's friendship.
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