A lucrative career for anyone who is good at sales is to become a representative for a niche food item. I know a guy who is known as Mr. Tortilla. He goes around to food shows around the country and displays tortillas from a certain manufacturer. Every order now around the country that is placed for these tortillas ends up paying him.

The key is to find a good product that no one else is selling and convince the manufacturer that they need a food rep. Then start with small grocery stores. At first, you won't make much money and you will have to work hard. But the beauty of the system is that once a place starts selling the item, you get paid for every order. Even if the retailer is buying direct from the manufacturer, if you were the one to first make the connection, then you get a cut for ever.

If you can sign up five stores a day, you are doing great. At the end of a week, you will have twenty-five stores as clients. You can earn up to $500 per store, depending on the product. That's $15,000 for one week's worth of labor! The next week, when you sign up another twenty-five, you will make $30,000. As long as you signed up the store, you are the one who gets the commission. (In this example, we are assuming that the grocery store sells 500 of the item/week and that your commission is $1. Your actual take will be more or less depending on the item you are repping).

The sky is really the limit. You can rep multiple products and make multiple commissions. Finally, when your product is nationally known, you can sit back and count your money. And yes, you can also eat as much of the product as you want!