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A Kleen break in our 50s
February 2008 - The Mirror
Jean
and Mike Day were hoping to put money aside to make their looming
retirement more comfortable - until they both lost their jobs.
Many 50-somethings might have feared they had been thrown on the
scrapheap, but not the Days. The couple, of Runcorn, Cheshire, decided
to turn their misfortune into a positive experience by selling cleaning
products.
So six years ago, Jean, now 59, and Mike, 62, set themselves up as
independent distributors with network marketing company Kleeneze, which
offers cleaning and other household goods direct to homeowners.
As well as helping them build a nest egg for retirement they have
bagged themselves a brand new BMW.
"I'm a saleswoman," explains Jean. "At 53 I took on a second job for a
bit of extra cash when Mike, formerly a printer, was made redundant. A
few months later I lost my job, too. It was awful. Redundancy crippled
our day-to-day finances, leaving us no room to save for our retirement.
"Friends had kept telling us how great Kleeneze was and
we kept ignoring them, thinking it sounded too good to be true. But
when we were thrown into desperation we decided it was time to find out
more.
"So we set ourselves up as independent distributors with Kleeneze. We
paid £140 for 200 catalogues (it's now £160) -
after a month we had earned that back and made £150 profit
through sales.
Now we earn over £7,000 a month, and we've picked up a BMW 3
series, a Mini Cooper and been on lots of trips abroad as incentives
for reaching various sales targets."
The Days are not alone in believing it is not too late to find their
dream job - half the over-50s agree with them, according to research by
Learndirect.
And 46 per cent say they are not too old to start a new career. Job
satisfaction is a top priority for a quarter of this group of workers,
while 60 per cent want the chance to learn new skills. The Days would
advise you to go for it.
"It's been hard work, but worth the graft," says Jean. "We now teach
others how to build a customer base and earn a commission from their
sales.
"We're not ready to retire yet, but when we do we will still keep
earning from our distributors. The money keeps coming as long as the
people we've recruited in to the company keep earning.
"We are both really enjoying doing this. There's no boss telling us
what to do and it is up to us how much or how little we work. It has
been a real lifestyle change - for the better. We just wish we'd done
this 10 years ago."
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