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Can anyone help me with starting as an insurance agent? What do I expect?

Question:
Can anyone help me with starting as an insurance agent? What do I expect?

Answer:
Like any other business, the Insurance business is tough to start, requires a lot of work, and has the potential to be one of the most lucrative careers out there. I have been a Life Insurance Agent / Financial Planner since graduating from College in 1994. I wouldn't trade it for anything. My first year in the business, I made less than $20,000 - now I average more than that every month! Find a good company, Find a good agency to work through, and study study study. Don't ever let yourself become stagnant in your knowledge and always strive to grow your practice vertically - find wealthier and wealthier clients to work with. You don't want to spend your entire career sitting at kitchen tables at 8:00 at night, but that's where you have to start. As in any other sales career, the more success you have, the more you find yourself separated from some of the other sales people around you because of their jealousy, but then the more success you will have. Don't learn their bad habits and you'll be one of the great ones.

I can't think of another career that I would find as rewarding - there is no other feeling on earth like being there for someone at the death of a loved one - one of the worst times in their life - and being the only person there who can deliver solutions - everybody else, the attorney, the funeral director, the business partners are all looking for money - I'm delivering it. I'm allowing families to rebuild their lives without the added stress of financial problems. That's worth more to me than I could ever earn. I'm making a tangible difference in peoples lives - how many other businesses can actually say that?