“Why do you do network marketing?” I am often asked this question.
I am a medical doctor and I have worked really hard for most of my life to get to where I am today, a senior Radiology fellow who will be getting my specialist qualification in 2 years time. Coming from Malaysia, it is extremely difficult to get into any kind of specialist training in the UK. For many people, it would be a dream comes true if they were in my situation right now. This is the reason why a lot of people, especially my colleagues, just can not understand why I am doing network marketing because specialists are paid quite well in UK and there are a lot of money to be made in the private sectors.
There are two reasons. Firstly, it is about time freedom. I have been a doctor for 6 years. I am paid reasonably well. In fact, my salary is within the top 10% of UK population. However, what I find is that the harder I work, the more work I get and the pay stays the same. I get busier and busier until I don’t have enough time to spend with people I care about. Working late, getting calls at 3 o’clock in the morning and spending weekends in the hospital is normal for me. It is kind of tolerable now but I don’t want to be doing that when I am 50 years old. Life is short and I want to have more time to do things I like and I want to spend quality time with my family.
The second reason is that I love medicine too much. It is a very honorable and satisfying profession. The reason I chose it as my career many years ago was because I like the challenge and the ability to help other people. It is not about money. However, as I grow up and face the real world, the constant financial pressure has derailed me from my initial intent or purpose of doing medicine. I find myself doing more and more extra work just to get more money. I am constantly thinking about private practice opportunity. Sometime I am ashamed of myself for thinking in such a way. I know a lot of doctors who have huge private practices and are making a lot of money. Surely that is not right and I really don’t want to be like them. I want to take the financial pressure of medicine. I want to be able to make money elsewhere and practise my medicine to help other people.
Network marketing and medicine is similar in many ways. It is all about helping people and it is also life changing. Solving other people’s health problem or financial problem essentially has similar impact on their life.
It is my dream to work as a doctor part time, probably for free and spend the rest of my time marketing online and spending quality time with my family. I also want to be able to help other network marketers to achieve their dream by sharing with them what works for me. Empowering other people in health and finance is what I am working towards.
To Your Success,
Ket-Sang Tai
