Regional Agency Director
Jim and I worked together at the jail and he told me about it.
I would tell every new agent who is not building to start building; even with warm market I you don’t have a recruiting budget. It makes the transition so much easier especially on the weeks when I don’t perform the way I know I can.
Agency Owner
I now actually have tremendously less stress, a true work/life balance and LOVE working on the two main focuses in my life; leaving a legacy and helping others. I have the honor of helping others build an insurance business while also helping families protect what’s most important!
What first peaked my interest at Symmetry was the flexibility and being able to work remotely. I started my career here in October of 2020. Ahhh yes, we all remember the glorious year of 2020! If you read the answer to my last question, you probably know being a bartender during the height of covid was no place to be.
Immediatley over night, my job was nearly eliminated. My restaurant was one of the few lucky ones to be able to stay open during the pandemic, but my hours were severely cut.
My husband, who was also a bartender actually got laid off, so it was up to me at this point to provide for myself, our daughter, and him. Talk about a tough situation to find yourself in, but I knew this was my opportunity for change in a big way. Having a new born during this time was already a big challenge and I knew very quickly that I didn’t want to work in a bar, during the pandemic. I wanted my hours to be on my terms and work around my daughters schedule, from the comfort of my own home. At the time, I knew I needed a big change and there wasn’t anything else I could find that would provide me with exactly what I was looking for.
WHAT A GREAT QUESTION! Right off the bat, my first piece of advice would be to RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN FOR WHAT YOU ARE CHASING!
What I mean by “run as fast as you can” is this industry requires you to see success quickly and to find belief in yourself that you can, in fact, DO IT. If you have one foot in, one foot out mentality you more than likely will not last in this business because it’s made only for the strong.
This industry requires that you find belief in yourself quickly. You have to have grit; determination; resilience; perseverance; and most importantly: COURAGE.
The people who give themselves no option but to succeed and do WHATEVER IT TAKES to get there are the ones that achieve it. My best piece of advice would be to identify why you want to be here and don’t just simply dabble in achieving your goals, but completely emerge yourself in making that a reality. Have the fire ignited in you so that once it’s lit, there’s no stopping you!
