Before I go further in this topic, I want you to understand that no salary earner can have financial freedom. It's impossible. I haven't heard about it since I was born and till this moment I haven't heard that a salary earner is now financially free and can travel round the world.
Please understand that I will explain this based on my experience as a networker put together with my knowledge of working for 8 good years under somebody as a salary earner.
I started working as a salary earner in a law firm in Lagos, Nigeria from February 2015 to February 2022. I resigned from my job even without a job. I mean I resigned and became jobless until I got another job after 3 months.
During the time I was working as a salary earner, my colleagues and I only receive Christmas and New Year's bonuses from the office. This comes as support for transportation money, but is called a bonus.
While working and putting in your efforts, you will not have time for yourself and family, because most times I work from home on Saturday and Sunday with the same salary. From 2015 to 2022, when I worked with them, my salary was increased 3 times and the highest amount I received was 50,000. Now you can imagine how much I was receiving before it was increased 3 times to 50,000, although they never skip a month in payment.
Now do you have an idea of what the difference between job and network marketing would be?
For the sake of more understanding, let me break it down more for you.
The difference between Job And Network Marketing.
1. In network marketing, you are your own boss, it's your business, it's like entrepreneurial businesses, and you have unlimited time for selling your products and services to your prospects.
A job is where you earn a salary every month, and sometimes you receive a bonus, especially during celebrations like Easter, Christmas and new year. Also, you are under somebody's control, and it's compulsory to obey. Even if you have complained about the instructions, it's mandatory to obey.
2. As a network marketer, you have your own time, when to go out to prospect, to be trained and train your down lines because you are your own master. As a salary earner, you don't determine for your boss when to resume work, where to work and how to work, and failure to follow specific instructions regarding a particular task in the office can attract serious punishment.
3. Network Marketing is another form of entrepreneurship, and it gives you financial freedom, but as a salary earner you will not get financial freedom or do you think you will make more money than your boss in the same company? It's not going to be possible, no matter how hardworking or smart you are.
4. In network marketing, your down lines help you to move forward to success because they are also making efforts to be financially free, so in the process of moving forward, you and their up line will go higher. Meanwhile, it is not like that with jobs.
5. In a job, you receive a salary and the increase comes once in 2 years or 4 years, but in network marketing you receive commission and this increases as you grow from level to level, and this can happen within a week or a month, depending on how many prospects you have and that of your down lines.
6. In network marketing, there's a level you will get to whether you are at home or not you will still be receiving your commission, but for that job you must be active in the office before you can earn your monthly payments.
7. In network marketing, you have a product and services to sell to your prospects, and they also do the same to their prospects and get their commissions, but in job, you give your professional services to your employer for the fixed salary.
8. In network marketing, you can decide when to retire. In fact, there's no retirement, but enjoyment provided your down lines will increase, which triggers endless commission, and you can't be retrenched, but in a job they can retire you with or without your concern. You could also be retrenched by your employer even for a mistake that could be fixed.
9. In network marketing, you have the opportunity to join your next of kin. For example, in the QNet network marketing business that I belong in, you have the opportunity to join your next of kin, and you have the option to change it up to 3 times. Now, if you eventually join your ancestors, your next of kin will continue receiving your commission on your behalf, but it's not that way in jobs. No matter your position in that company, if you join your ancestors, there's nothing for your family from the company.
10. In network marketing, you don't receive a pension but a commission. Meanwhile, as a worker, you may have the opportunity to be paid a pension by your employer. I said maybe because not all employers pay their employees pensions.
11. In network marketing you have the option to write your dreams although not all network marketing companies ask for it, but in QNet you are required to write your life dreams, because these are what will motivate you to push harder and never give up until you achieve them. I mean dreams like building an estate in 5 years after joining a marketing network, building an industry to create jobs for your community, provision of borehole water for your community. You know things you want your community to enjoy but aren't available because of money, or that have been neglected by someone that's representing your community at the state or federal level, in QNet you can put them as your dream.
12. What you get in network marketing as a reward is remuneration, otherwise called commission, and is not fixed, but as a worker you are rewarded with a salary which is fixed, and you don't determine how it will be increased.
As someone that has worked under somebody for 8 good years, and now a network marketer, I have shared my experiences with both sides, so if you want to make decisions, choose wisely. I would advise you to go for network marketing because of its unlimited benefits.
Please note that I used QNet, a direct selling e-commerce company, as an example of a network marketing business. Because of my experience in it as someone that's there, I was not talking about it for any other purposes.
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