An honest note from someone who isn't a recruiter - and won't pretend to be.

An honest note from someone who isn’t a recruiter — and won’t pretend to be. Hi, Quick honest note before anything else: I saw your profile is marked “open to opportunity,” and I want to be straight with you — I don’t have a job to offer you. I almost didn’t message you for that reason. There’s a small voice in my head that says “don’t bother people who are looking for work with something that isn’t work.” But I kept coming back to it, because what I actually do have is, in my honest opinion, better than another salary slot — and I’d rather you decide that for yourself than have me decide for you by staying quiet. So here’s the most respectful version of “what I do”, I can write, with the smallest possible ask at the end. If it’s not for you, you’ll know in three minutes and we both move on. The quiet problem with “Open to Opportunity” You already know what’s about to happen in your inbox. Recruiters with slightly-different-flavored versions of the same job you’re already doing. Salary ranges that look generous until you compare them to what you actually need. Promises about “culture” and “growth path” that you stopped believing somewhere around your second performance review. And underneath all of it, the part nobody on LinkedIn says out loud: Even the best version of the next job is still a job. Same ceiling. Same ratio of effort-to-paycheck. Same dependence on one company’s decisions about your future. You move sideways with a 12% raise, and three years later you’re having the same conversation you’re having with yourself right now. I’m not saying that to be dramatic. I’m saying it because almost every person I work with told me a version of this story in our first conversation. They didn’t hate their job. They just couldn’t see how it was ever going to get them where they actually wanted to go. What I actually do I coach employed professionals — people exactly like you, with day jobs they’re good at — to build a serious side income as regional partners in a digital services business. I am in that business myself for more than 25 years as a business owner. In plain language: you become the local face for a complete digital service offering — websites, webshops, digital marketing, social media management, IT services, AI integration — sold to small and mid-sized businesses in your own region. A remote technical team behind you handles all the actual building. You primarily handle the relationship. Project sizes can start around €2,500 and scale up from there. The partner keeps roughly 80% of project revenue. The technical team’s delivery cost is roughly 20%. That’s not a marketing number — that’s the actual structure. Which means: one decent project a month is around €2,000 to you. Two projects is €4,000. A partner who lands four to six projects a month is doing better than most senior salaried roles in this country — with the difference that nobody can lay them off, nobody decides their raise, and nobody owns their evenings. And this is all built while you keep your current job. There is no “quit and pray” step. The math has to work first. The proof I keep pointing to One of our partners, Mart, started with little experience in any of this. He was a student with a hobby of computers and technology. He wasn’t in marketing. He sold a few things but not in a structural way that made him a lot of money. He was a student who wanted to make money. He now runs a multi-six-figure annual business, with serious clients, on a schedule he sets himself. I bring Mart up because he is not unusually gifted. I’ve coached him long enough to say that honestly. What he was, and still is, is unusually consistent. He showed up every week. He did the calls. He followed the model I have developed. He stopped looking for the trick and started doing the work. That’s the whole secret, by the way. The model works. The variable is the person. Why I’m not asking you for a call Notice what I haven’t done in this message: I haven’t asked you to book a call. I haven’t asked you to commit to anything. I haven’t even asked you to reply. That’s deliberate. I think the people who do best in this model are the ones who study the free information I have available on their own first, in their own time, without anyone selling them anything. So I built a community website with the full picture — the model, the income mechanics, the day-in-the-life, partner stories (including more on Mart), the parts most people get wrong, the kind of person it’s right and wrong for, and a stack of free training. You can go through all of it quietly, on your own time, without sitting through a webinar: → https://tomkoster.thinkific.com Three things people usually ask me at this point “Is this an MLM, network marketing thing, or pyramid?” No. There’s no downline, no recruiting requirement, no products to buy. You sell real digital services to real businesses, and you keep the margin on the work you bring in. That’s the whole transaction. “Do I need a technical background?” No. The technical team behind you handles all the building. Your job is the relationship with the client — understanding what they need and bridging it to what we deliver. If you can have an intelligent conversation with a business owner, you can do this. “How much time does it actually take to start?” Most partners start with focused evenings and one weekend day per week. That’s enough to land the first projects. You scale your hours up as the income grows and your day job becomes optional — not the other way around. There are more answers like that on the site. Go look. They’re more useful in context than in a LinkedIn message. And that’s really all I’m asking Go through the free materials. Decide for yourself. If after looking around, you think “this isn’t for me” — no hard feelings at all. You’ll have lost maybe twenty minutes and learned something useful about a side of the market most employees never see from the inside. That’s not nothing. If it does click — if you read through the model and think “wait, this could actually work for me” — you’ll know exactly what to do next. There’s a way to reach me right there on the site, and we can have a real conversation about whether you and the model are a fit. Either way — good luck with whatever opportunity you do end up taking. The fact that you’re open to one at all already puts you ahead of most people, who just stay stuck and complain about it. Thanks for reading this far. I know LinkedIn messages this long are unusual. I figured an unusual offer deserved an unusual amount of honesty. Tom Koster Founder & Coach, DC Movement Tom Koster & Partners → https://tomkoster.thinkific.com [email protected] P.S. If your current job is genuinely the right fit for you, please ignore this message with my full blessing — there’s nothing wrong with loving what you do. This is for the people who already know, somewhere in the back of their head, that the next job isn’t going to fix what the last one didn’t.