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Why aren't you pursuing a career in insurance, /biz/?

>> No.639939

I've been at an insurance company for the last 12 years.

>> No.639940

>>639939

Noice, brokerage or underwriting?

>> No.639941

>>639940
Property and casualty. Although I work in IT, so I don't really care about a lot of the business side of things.

>> No.639993

What kind of qualifications do you need to get into selling insurance?

>> No.639994

>>639938

Because I have a soul.

>> No.639996

>>639994
Basically this.
>>639993
If you want to sell the kind of insurance that actually makes you money, you need to lack all empathy.

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>>639994
>>639996

>> No.640011

I was thinking about going to school for actuarial science but I hear it's very difficult to pass the exams

>> No.640020

>>639996
I would be okay with this. I'm known for not being very empathetic as it is.

>> No.640023

>>639938

It's actually pretty competitive these days. Lots of small firms chomping at the bit.

Plus they are the ultimate shills. Insurance is perhaps the single most shillworthy thing a person can do. Selling thin air, using a vehicle of fear, and profiting off misery.

Seems pretty horrible to me. In a perfect world insurance wouldn't need to exist. Neither would lawyers. but we live in the real world.

>> No.640026

>>640020
It's harder than you think. I knowingly fuck people financially. It hurts to have someone thank you for adding $30k worth of debt to their plate.

>>640023
>Insurance is perhaps the single most shillworthy thing a person can do. Selling thin air, using a vehicle of fear, and profiting off misery.
I sell timeshare. We've had insurance salesmen quit due to moral hangups.

>> No.640072

Makes me wanna become an insurance salesman, retail sales here, make good money, but revenge would be even better.

>> No.640077

Insurance has too many regulations placed on it.

It's all about that extended warranty business now if you want to swindle people out of their money legally.

>> No.640082

Add ons are great, but if love to sell my key product with some margin in it.

>> No.640085

>>640011
It's not difficult (at least the first 5 ones), but actuary is a boring job.

>> No.640097

>>640023
>In a perfect world insurance wouldn't need to exist

Good thing we don't live in a perfect world then you moron

>> No.640099

>>640072

Look into commercial lines breh, that's where the money's at. Guaranteed business at all times due to regulations placed upon businesses, with a very low chance of actual outflow.

>> No.640122

>>640026
but-but you are selling them peace of mind?

>> No.640129

>>640099
Cheers breh

>> No.640135

>1 year ago
>neet
>distant american family comes over to visit, multimillionaires
>they leave
>find out last week that they took pity on me and offered me a chance to go to high school/college in America and if I proved myself I'd be given a six figure position at their insurance company
>my family never told me about the offer because they didn't want me to go
>would have done it instantly
>they act offended when I get platinum mad and they say 'what, do you not care about us here' and 'money isn't everything' 'it was for your own good'
>still neet shut-in

That's why I don't have a career in insurance.