Prior to embarking on my Yoga journey and becoming a yoga teacher, I had to take an early retirement from the Federal Housing Administration.  In that world I fell in love with helping people qualify to buy their first home.  When I retired, I went into the real estate world as a mortgage loan processor and then a loan officer.  Then I decided to become a real estate sales agent, well it is not like working for a company where you go in and do an assigned job and get paid.  No, you hustle for your money, you work 24/7 until you get to a point where you are able to learn to manage your time and energy.  You learn the ins and outs of the system.  Then you begin to fall in love with the work when you experience the happiness you bring to the family closing on their first home!  It's a great feeling to help people and then somehow it starts to click and then you experience the freedom of setting your own schedule with the understanding that what you put in you get out.  I left that world because of my surgery.  But my surgery led me to Yoga.  The same is true of being a yoga teacher, the joy of a student telling you that they are feeling better, observing a student reach a point that they could not do before is a good feeling!  The freedom to set my schedule, plan my classes and not have to answer to anyone but myself is good.  However, self-employment is not for everyone.  I am always open to learning new things and always looking to see how I can somehow not only increase my income flow, but help others to do the same.  With that said in full disclosure, I am a Wellness Advocate for doTerra and an Independent Representative for Nature's Sunshine.  I am not an "Avon Lady", although I did sell Avon many years ago!