This is quite a long story but I’ll try to be brief. I graduated high school in 2020 and was offered a job at aflac as a salesman(interviewed at 17 hired at 18) The ad for the job stated you would make 40-60k a year a year and a half in and I’ve barely made 20k. During the interview process it was told to me that the job would be commission only, which I understand because at the time I had 7k in my bank account and the allure of as they put it “running my own business” appealed to my entrepreneurial spirit. Well this is were the trouble began. First off the company gives you no money for gas, food, car repairs or anything. You are expected to make your own leads as well as none are supplied by the company. This was fine in the beginning as I was ignorant. As I started the job I was made to believe it was great being given free alcoholic beverages at events hosted by management, given gifts such as ducks etc. As you “run your own business” you have 2 managers above you, your own and their manager. They expect and demand at least 50 different business approaches a week to meet their quota, not your own businesses quota. I had some early success and was making decent money. This is when I was heavily incentivized to rent an office space at the office from my managers manager. This slowly faded though as the current recession is making owners less receptive to even talk to a salesman with this being a rural town as well most of the decent business . Then I had a horrible break up and was basically bed ridden with depression, sucicidal thoughts and tendencies and a major drug (mdma/adderall) addiction for 3 months. I got myself back together in therapy and kicked the drugs but during this time I made $0. As I got back to work I was facing down 4K dollars of debt and had no money to pay my bills for the month and the advice given was to simply “do more approaches” when I couldn’t even put gas in the tank of my car. Well why didn’t I quit ? You see as you sell policies you’re supposed to build a statement that pays you at the beginning of each month. I’ currently only at $200 as of this writing per month. Not nearly enough to pay bills. The best part is is that if you quit before two years is up you don’t keep getting that money for the rest of your life as you do when you make it past 2 years. So if I quit now at my one and a half year mark all of the policies I’ve written and accounts opened are simply for nothing and go to the management team. This has happened with at least 6-8 people in my time with the company. I’m the only person who has made it past a few months here. I’m also technically a 1099 contractor so I don’t believe I can sue for anything. I’m just lost as to what to do. All and all I’ve given this company 2 years of my life and 11k dollars of my previous investments and savings and all I’ve got in return is horrendous mental problems and a tax bill I cannot pay.