Well, I am back home, barely. For the past month, since getting this job as an insurance agent, I have been away from where I live, literally. As I said before, I was up in Glenview at the school getting some training, which lasted for three weeks, and now I have been in the Danville area for the past two weeks. This coming week, I am going to be in the Quad cities area, on the Illinois side, getting one hundred units signed up to Combined Insurance for some Ardmore week the company has twice a year. At first, I thought this job would be perfect for me; it will manage my time on the field and with my business, I will be free from supervision breathing down my neck, and I can practice my skills on meeting people. Now, it’s starting to look like this job wants me to think only about Combined Insurance and nothing else. I mean, it made as though you cannot have a life other than this, and it’s starting to disappoint me. Thankfully, I got my car tuned and fixed up being I have to drive almost everywhere, but I didn’t want a job that was going to be ten to twelve hours everyday. In the interview, they did say there might be some days that I would have to work twelve hours, but I would not think every week. Man, I don’t know how some of these people that were in my class are getting by, because a lot of them have families to tend to. This company while in the school always kept saying that they support family values, but how are you going to be able to keep a family when you’re gone for weeks on end, and don’t even have a full weekend to take care of family activities? This week is going to be interesting, I am literally going to be working fourteen hour days from Monday to Saturday, trying to sign up as many people as possible. My managers are sugar coating the situation by saying there will be prizes being given away, but I am not even going to think about that. I just hope after this week goes by, I will be away from management and just go out there and do my thing. So now, my goal is this: I am going to make Grand Diamond in their company, just to show I can do this, and then leave, unless they give me a position where I am not going to the outer fringes of society trying to get people to buy insurance. I mean, some of the places I was going to around Danville, these small towns and such, I really stuck out like a soar thumb! Here I was, around a bunch of rednecks and farmers, talking in a southern twang, and I am dressed in a shirt and tie looking and sounding like a city slicker! Oh man, no wonder why no one was interested in insurance, I am an outlander to them. I was being nice and all, and I was not rude at all, but my fast pace style couldn’t handle their down home country slowness. Oh well, I’ll be in Moline this coming week so I should get much better results. Right now, I am studying more on my material for the presentations, and looking forward to a week of some good cash flow. Also, I am planning on how to revolve my business with my job, and I believe I got a excellent system for that. I am going to designate time for both fields, and make sure I get to at least one meeting for my business a week, regardless where I am at. Either way, I am going to make this work, as I said before, if it wasn’t for LTD, I wouldn’t have gotten this opportunity.
