I just read this on reddit
They were talking about work at home jobs
I was interested because I need to do something like that
Anyways
My ex-wife called one of those numbers from a homemade-looking flyer on a telephone pole.
It ended up being a legit job (albeit kind of an MLM deal) selling all kinds of home services for a large corporation that basically acts as a contract sales agency; everything from lawn care to in-home nursing care and everything in between.
They set her up with a phone system and computer and turned her loose.
Within a year she was making more than she had at her previous job as an executive assistant. Within two years she was in high-five-figure territory and her income had stabilized.
About that time, they made her a territory manager and instead of just doing phone sales she traveled to industry events, met with buying groups, and trained new salespeople. Some of her job was recruiting also. She even put up some of those cheesy flyers on telephone poles.
Anyway, it got very demanding. She would be gone several nights a week and was always stressed. We had many nights where at dinner the kids could hardly eat because they missed her so much.
When she was home, she was distant and distracted. She wasn't herself. I think she dealt with having to be away by choosing to be away even more; being gone became easier than coming home and then leaving again.
Things really got bad on our 12th anniversary. It was the first weekend she hadn't worked in probably 4 months and the first time we had a "date" in almost a year. Twice during the evening she called me "Brent," which was her boss's name.
I chalked it up to stress/distraction/whatever. It was an early warning sign.
Before long it was obvious she was having an affair. I asked her to leave her job and patch up our marriage but it was like she was addicted to her work. She moved out.
About three months later she spontaneously stopped by the house while the kids were staying with my parents. She said she had been promoted and would be able to travel less and that she wanted us to be a family again. I was overjoyed. She stayed with me all weekend and we started making plans for her to move back.
The following week, however, she reneged and sent me divorce papers. I was devastated.
After things were finalized, the kids chose to live with me. She became a parody of a busy business traveler. The kids would get postcards almost every week from random cities. Santa Fe, Peoria, Wichita, Jacksonville. She never called and the kids really didn't want to talk to her. Nothing was important but her "business."
She was killed in a collision with a semi in 2007.
In hindsight, that was just her personality. She was always a very motivated and competitive person and once she had an opportunity to live that life she just took it. The worst part about the entire ordeal was that that final weekend we spent together before she basically disappeared from our lives, she gave me herpes.
Damn that fool lost. 
