Wow, working in performance advertising sales I identify with a ton of that. I had to learn how to lie, seduce, cajole and bully my clients into doing what my company wanted them. My first sales job was like a boiler room and the two top guys in it at my company were still wearing ankle monitors from after they were released from prison for two years for securities fraud. Selling email blasts pre-CAN-SPAM) was the next gold rush. I was never as good at the cocky type of sales. I was good at the seduction, the consultative sale, the becoming the customer's best friend and slowly, smoothly slipping him or her into a high monthly fee advertising contract. I was good at that kind of sale and I kept getting paid more and more. However, I have long passed the point of burnout and not sure I can do it anymore. My Mom is still alive, but she's getting very old and her memory is suffering. I can't even face the thought of a world without her, so I won't go into that, but I am already feeling the latest episode of the continuing spiritual crisis of conscience that this business has driven me to over and over again.

I am looking to build an escape through passive income that will pay me to live without having to flog marketing leads anymore.

Thank you for your inspiration. I will be following you.