Nursing?”

This was a question posed to me by a 40ish year old male physician, just moments ago.

The conversation started with “Did you make my coffee” as he walked into the nourishment room.  You have to walk through that room to get to my office. I am a midwife at a hospital.

I informed him that I made coffee for no one but myself. Of course, he was kidding. Or was he?

He proceeded to ask me if I remembered the movie “Coma”. I remember it sort of.  He said he was watching it an became very agitated during it because the movie depicted nurses in a very subservient manner. He wondered why it wasn’t still that way. He prefers it that way.  HE WAS NOT KIDDING.

I remember those days all  too well. The nurse would give the doctor her chair and get him coffee and carry charts on rounds with him and followed every order he wrote.

This was before nurses could be sued individually if they followed an order that was not correct or unsafe.  Amazingly, he didn’t realize that nurses/practitioners could be sued separate from the physician. He thought we just fall under employee and are exempt or taken care of by the hospital. I assured him I have testified both on the behalf of and against nurse practitioners involved in law suits. We are not exempt.

This attitude, not uncommon in the male (an occasionally female) physician world, is one of the reasons I seek to make my income at home.

I have been an employee for over 40 years and in the past 10 years, or so, physicians have gotten greedier, the government has gotten too involved, the insurance companies make it impossible to practice and the entitlement mindset of some of the recipients of healthcare make it unpleasant to continue in as a nurse.

Mind you, I have 2 advanced practice certifications and a doctorate in nursing. Up until the last year or so, I always said it was a good choice for me. I still believe, at the time I made it, it was a good choice and I have enjoyed most of my career. But now, you can’t rely on having a job due to budget cuts (I don’t care how many initials you have after your name) and people are getting less grateful for the care they receive.

Career change from nursing to non-nursing, in fact, non medical.

February 14th of 2012, I took a big leap and tried multi-level marketing. I started with a nutrition company. I invested over $20,000 in it. $4000 buy in plus buying leads and product that had to be kept in my home. Then there was the asking your warm market to use the product and cold calling.  Calling on the phone was the worst part. I don’t care if you say no, just be polite.

That ended up being a good tax write off.

I joined another company in July? same year. I actually  am still with the company but don’t have a down line. I have 21 customers and I will stay with them. I enjoy the company but the compensation plan, while being about the same as most (around 30%) isn’t much when you consider the product is $10. So that’s $3/customer/month. Without a down-line, that isn’t much money.

Then I started affiliate marketing. I buy an internet marketing educational product and I can resell it at 100% commission. I learn and earn.  I like it. Easier than the MLM and I actually have started to use some of the marketing techniques I have learned, with the affiliate group, on the MLM.  No phone calling necessary. Whoopee!

There is no way that the affiliate gig won’t work. It’s a numbers game. You funnel enough traffic through and you make money. A couple of sales and you’ve gotten your investment back. My mentor has made over $43,000 in the first 12 weeks. Of course there is no guarantee of income. It depends on your work ethic.

I will leave you with this video from Eric Worre.  He describes very well what every MLM/affiliate marketer goes through. It’s also what Henry Ford, Einstein and Edison went through because they chose a different path.


This is the better way.

I have enjoyed most of my years in nursing but I’m 63 now and want to learn something new and profitable where my clients, colleagues and mentors don’t ask me to make their coffee. I will continue my consulting but otherwise I will move on. Never to old you know.

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