For 20 years, I sat in a chair, behind a desk, phone in hand, and I made call after call, to people who were behind on their bills, and I demanded payment.
I was good… I was very good.
It was a commission based job, which meant that the more calls that I made, the more money that I collected, and the fatter my bonus checks.
(My bonus checks were very fat.)
I was 37 when I decided to take a break from collecting bills, and I decided to go drive a truck over the road for a while.
In my travels, I met a lot of good people from all walks of life, good people, with a story… so many stories.
Some stories made me laugh, some made me sad, so many others brought a tear to my eye.
The job of a debt collector… it’s always go, go, and go, and you don’t get too much time to sit back, to relax, and to reflect.
Truck drivers have a lot of time to reflect.
This may sound naive, and maybe even stupid, but when I was working as a debt collector, sitting in the office making phone calls and collecting bills, I never really knew how hard and tough life really was.
Not until I started talking to regular people out here on the road and listening to their stories.
My heart really broke from listening to some of these heavy stories.
I guess I always did talk to ‘regular’ people, but I guess I just never really listened.
Listening to people’s hard stories while out on the road, I began to realize that ‘hard times’ can materialize in so many different ways, so unexpectedly, and regardless of how much a person plans for hard times, hard times can devastate even the strongest among us.
With hard times, money troubles usually follow, which cause good people to fall behind on car payments, credit card bills, rent and mortgage payments, even medical bills.
I can’t tell you exactly when, but one day, after a long day of driving, lying on a hotel bed, I felt something tug on my chest, and I felt so much pain and exhaustion, like I was having a heart attack.
I remember thinking at that moment, thinking of all the calls that I had dialed when I was a debt collector, demanding payment from people going through hard times.
I can’t really tell you why I was thinking about all those people, at that very moment, but my thoughts were filled with all of their voices, suddenly, out of no where.
All those hard stories, full of pain and desperation, from people that I called on the phone, from people without a face, just pleading and asking me for some compassion, and at that time, I just simply dismissed their wrenching hard stories as ‘part of my job’, and now, all these years later, all of their hard stories just came rushing back into my head.
Thinking about it now, I can’t describe the heavy sadness that I feel.
Is it guilt? Is it regret? I don’t know.
In any event, I don’t really want to go on too long with this, but along with the pain that I felt in my chest that day, I felt some sort of ‘calling’ to try and help people, and at that time, at that moment, I had no idea how I could help anybody, I just knew that people needed help, and they did not need to suffer, because of something that happened in their life, something that they had no control over.
So after a period of time, a few weeks maybe, when my driving time was over for the day, I began searching for opportunities to make money, so that I can get off the road and get back home.
That’s when I discovered affiliate marketing.
After a few days of reading, studying, and absorbing what affiliate marketing was, I could not believe how simple it could be.
Then again, back when I was 17 years of age, when I started my debt collection career, I could not believe how easy the life of a debt collector was either.
And I must say, collecting bills was easy.
Today, incredibly, now that I am off the road, I am back in the debt collection game, because debt collections is all that I know, and I do have a few good years left in me.
But this time around, I am taking a more compassionate approach to debt collections, by offering solutions rather than demands.
And so far, affiliate marketing has done well for me, and after listening to so many hard stories while out on the road from good people, and with my first experience in debt collections, all of this has opened my eyes, and has softened my heart, and has given me a way to help people to make a little extra money.
People don’t need to make a million, they just need to make a little extra cash to help pay for a few groceries, and maybe a utility bill or two, and they can handle the rest.
But, if someone happens to grab this affiliate marketing opportunity and make a million, then let’s go!
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