Getting In the Insurance Game

For those of you who do not know me, I am starting a career selling insurance. I'm really excited about getting this going. For one thing, I need to start making money again. The camel hair jacket in the picture below is getting quite tattered and needs to be replaced. Without the proper funds it will be put out to pasture without a successor. The financial aspect is pretty obvious, but there are a few more reasons I am excited to get it going. This is the first time in my young career that I have been pursuing something that I can see myself doing for a while. I really want to get good at this and I know that comes only through effort and time. The insurance world is so large that there are many different avenues to explore and there are many different client needs. This breadth is quite exciting, and since I am an independent broker my opportunities are only limited by my imagination and hard work. Once I get my new blazer I will be unstoppable! Another reason for my excitement is that I actually believe in what I am doing. This is incredible! When I was selling for Quest, I sold medical tests. By providing the Doctor with new and better tools to diagnose his patients I was indirectly helping sick people and hopefully guiding them to better health. Unfortunately a large part of my job was using my mouth and political charm to convince the Doctor and Office Manager that our prices were the best and our insurance treatment was better than the competitor. Another large part of my job was politicking inside my organization and satisfying their harsh reporting demands. Those really killed my spirit and zeal for the job. Add to that I didn't necessarily choose that job, it kind of chose me, I could see this wasn't my path to career fulfillment. Some may argue that career fulfillment is too lofty of a goal or that most people aren't really happy with their jobs anyway. The way I see it, you spend a lot of your life working and you need to receive something from it beside simply a paycheck. Sometimes I relate current experiences back to the most primal needs that I can identify. A job in modern times relates to any sort of hunter or gatherer of days past. It is the channel used to aquire food, shelter, and the necessities for ones family. Those last two sentences were a little off the line of conversation mentioned previously, but I think it's important to remember that what we do now isn't too much different that what has always happened except we now have email and DVRs. Since this is MY blog, I will now return to my next reason that I am excited about my insurance career, and it will be illustrated through a story. Yesterday I had my first sale. It was a pretty easy sale since the buyer was a close family friend who needed the insurance. The reward was not in the actual sale of insurance. Since I am independent, I can carry the best companies that provide the best rates to my clients. I was able to find this client a better rate than they had been offered from any of their other insurance contacts. That was a great feeling, but the best was knowing that they would have the financial protection they needed for their family. That is why I got out of B2B sales and got back to my strength and my passion of helping families. The fact that my knowledge and skills can help better protect families and cousel them to find the best products is something that I feel really great about! If you took the time to read this post, thank you. You probably know me a little better now. I hope all is well in your world and please accept my best wishes for a wonderful day. Smile, be happy, and love those you love the best you can. I'm out. Holla'

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