I've thought about this alot.  I think I was just desperate for a change in my life, and I knew that I couldn't live with my circumstances any longer.  My husband teaches violin, and his hours are after school; when I started MK those were also my hours.  I wasn't ready to start school, emotionally or financially, and I guess this just looked good.  I thought it would reduce the amount of money I had to make as a private teacher, and then I could go back to school...and not sacrifice the time I wanted to have with my children after school.

What I have learned since is that in an interview, this is what you are trained to do.  To listen for the needs of the person, and present them with the right kind of information that would make them put 2&2 together so they see how MK would benefit them.  As a director, I think your biggest job is to do the same with your consultants.  Find their need, their "hot button" and show them how moving up in MK would benefit them.  I don't believe that ANY  would EVER deny that as a description of their job!!!!

So my answer is...I was vulnerable to change, I was looking for it, and I was dealing with people who were extremely well versed in the art of persuasion.

Too bad it was such an empty lie    Sell the sizzle!!!!  This opportunity can't deliver on its promises, and anyone who tells you otherwise is just telling you what you want to hear! 

Actually, I should say I would have made money. I didn't make any in MK. I was only in for about 6 months and lost $200.  And I consider myself very lucky.  Sick

I may have posted this before, but I'll say it again anyway    I know that I was looking for recognition, something that was very rare at my 9-5.  I also wanted something that was "mine" that I could do with what I wanted.  I saw the jewelry, the cars and the "image" and thought, "if she can do this I can do this"  Little did I know that every conversation was scripted to match my personality, and meet my needs.  I don't think any of us can look at ourselves as "dumb" for choosing the MK Opportunity, MK is in the business of manipulation, and regardless of intelligence, manipulation is manipulation...I say we're geniuses because we got out!!! 

For me, I think it was because God's name was used so often.  I truly didn't think someone would throw around His name as a marketing gimmick...I've learned now!  I fell for everything hook, line, and sinker.  I really trusted my director and didn't think she would lie to me or try to mislead me.     Boy have I learned!  My director has now been terminated from the company and I am finding out more and more deceitful things she did.  Now I'm stuck with $3,000 in credit card debt and I'm only 19.  Thank God I have a wonderful father who was willing to forgive me and is willing to help me out of this situation!

Be careful who you trust!

I think I fell for it because I was so bored and unstimulated at my day job. I was looking for a way out.
funny, now I am GRATEFUL that I have this boring day job! I guess the whole mk thing needed to happen for me to appreciate what I have got! wave

I went for it because I was told the products sell themselves, everybody loves MK!! All you have to do is wear the products and wear the pin and they will come.....I know I can't sell anything and I hate feeling like I'm bugging people to buy something. Even though I'm not pushy at all, people would roll their eyes or run when they see me coming, whether I was trying to make a sell or not. My director was raving about how much money she was making everyday, and a couple times it dawned it me when she slipped and said she averages about $800 per week in sales, it sounded good in the beginning, wow, making an extra $800 a week!!!....but soon I got to calculating about how she already spent half of that on the products....$400 profit.........shipping for the products ($8.95)......10% on section 2......gas (?)......hostess gifts (?).....consultant gifts (?)......other expenses (?).....after all that, she didn't really profit much of anything. And all the rah rah meetings were starting to make me sick....the whole fake it till you make thing is a bust.  And once I started seeing these women jump up and down for the cheap little prizes, that was enough for me. I wish I would have went with my first thought when I placed my initial inventory of $600, the first director gave me a cheap key chain which turned green and eventually broke into pieces, I should have ran then. I was like okay, maybe she gave me that because she could see that I was "serious" about my business, which I was in the beginning. I like the fact of being independent. But I saw them giving cheap stuff away just for people ordering, not selling. It's such a turn off. And when my director started trying to micromanage everybody else business, saying things like "she must not be working her business", "all she had to do was put in a $200 order", "I can't believe she has to ask her husband for $100 to get started, it's just $100".....it was time for me to run.

I was vulnerable as a new SAHM as well. Here are the things I was told that sucked me in:

1. you don't need to talk to strangers. If you just advertise and wear your pin customers will come
2. Everyone loves MK and the average class are between $300 and $500 per class
3. "we're taught at Harvard"   &%*$#ing *&^%$$#  liars!
4. buyback guarantee makes this business risk-free!
5. you can work 10 hours a week and make some extra part-time income
6. my recruiter: "I just started Mary Kay and I'm already doing so well I probably won't have to go back to engineering" (total lie)

yup - I was a sucker.