How Would I Start a Life Agency in TX?

HomeService · 07-30-2010, 10:44 PM

Heck with it, I am thinking about starting my own. I have searched for 25+ years for the perfect career agency, never found it.

HomeService · 07-30-2010, 11:52 PM

Not really captive for all that time, but I tried both captive and broker since 1986. I really liked the captive career companies- but sooner or later I would get cross-ways with a manager or two and tell them to go jump in a lake- and I would be out of a job. As a broker, I never found the motivation, so I guess I needed the manager who was a jerk to me. I have trouble being a jerk to me. Ha ha . I took like 15 years off and drove as a courier delivery driver, even owned my own courier company for a few years. When I was running that thing, I really liked being a business owner. Wife made me sell it. So I never really stuck it out with an insurance outfit for more than say, two years at a time. Maybe 6 mos. or a year for most deals. And I took 15 years off, so I am a little misleading with the 25+ years claim, however the whole time I took off to drive, I either kept my insurance license or kept thinking about and/or studying insurance even when my license expired. So that's my life story in a nutshell.

VolAgent · 07-31-2010, 06:26 AM

Why not open your own career shop? Then you only have to answer to upper management, not the branch manager? See if you can find a GA system so you can be the GA. Hopefully less micromanagement that way.

I would think your experience as a business owner and your experience with multiple systems would work in your favor. But, jumping shops so often would probably hurt almost just as much.

HomeService · 07-31-2010, 10:06 AM

Yeah, trust me I am not proud of jumping around so much. I am proud of telling sleezeballs to go jump in a lake. But if I would have stuck it out with some of the career places.... the jerky managers eventually go bye-bye. Oh well.