I have been in the mortgage industry for the last 25 years. I am good at what I do. I worked for the FDIC and closed failing banks, those that had lent money to unreliable, unsuitable or fraudulent borrowers. I loved my job, but I was an accountant and Washington DC had 300 accountants with nothing to do. So they started laying off personnel in the field offices. On Dec, 31, 2000 I was laid off.
I went to work for a mortgage company, the subsidiary of a very large brokerage on Wall Street. The secular world was a shock to me! If someone didn’t like you or if you stood up to someone (like your manager) you had no recourse. There was no board of review or complaints division that actually heard you. Well, I am just a little outspoken. I told managers what they were doing wrong. After I implemented changes and rules for deposits and account reconciling the general ledger accounting for the department, I had the audacity to submit an honest answer to a request from management (Where do you expect to be a year from now?”). I expected to be a supervisor of the department with at least 3 persons working under my supervision. Absolutely not acceptable! I was not my manager’s favorite person anyway.
Anyway, I stuck it out for 6 years! Through, bad reviews from her, being put on Special Projects that were destined to fail and complete isolation from new information. Then the Sub-Prime market began to fail. They started laying off in 2006. I made it until October 1, 2007 then I was laid off.
I did not want to go to work for corporate America again. I started looking into Home Businesses. I ended up choosing Affiliate Marketing. That’s How I got here.
