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What 19 Years in Insurance Has Taught Me
National News • July 8, 2009
Working at my computer the other day, it hit me that the most recent crop of college graduates were not even born when I graduated from high school and they were no more than three when I entered ...
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| what 19 years have taught me | john Grever | Jul 22, 2009, 9:19 am |
| RE: What 17 Years of Insurance has Taught Me...... | Just a thought | Jul 21, 2009, 2:54 pm |
| RE: to Burnt Out | Inthegraveyard | Jul 21, 2009, 1:23 pm |
| 21 years in - The truth as I see it! | Company Gal | Jul 20, 2009, 2:04 pm |
| Are Humanoids Still in Control | The Infrared Man | Jul 20, 2009, 12:13 pm |
| RE: What 17 Years of Insurance has Taught Me...... | Second Generation | Jul 16, 2009, 2:51 pm |
| RE: What 27 years have taught me. | 40 Yr Veteran | Jul 16, 2009, 1:25 pm |
| RE: The best has yet to come | Second Generation | Jul 16, 2009, 1:07 pm |
| RE: Insurance/Claims | RMM | Jul 15, 2009, 8:13 am |
| RE: Can you be 54 and have 33 years in the biz? Lordy | lindav | Jul 14, 2009, 4:47 pm |
| Can you be 54 and have 33 years in the biz? Lordy | CPEwholesale | Jul 14, 2009, 4:23 pm |
| RE: to Burnt Out | Mel Sputnikk | Jul 14, 2009, 4:07 pm |
| What 17 Years of Insurance has Taught Me...... | A Casualty of Excess | Jul 14, 2009, 10:08 am |
| to Burnt Out | pita | Jul 13, 2009, 11:59 am |
| RE: What 27 years have taught me. | Burnt Out | Jul 13, 2009, 10:24 am |
| RE: Has it taught you? | Wholesale Underwriting Manager | Jul 13, 2009, 10:06 am |
| 26 years in Insurance in the Great White North | Wayne Wallace CIP | Jul 10, 2009, 12:41 pm |
| RE: The best has yet to come | Matt | Jul 10, 2009, 12:04 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: The best has yet to come | BeverlyS | Jul 10, 2009, 9:55 am |
| What 24 years has taught me... | Woody | Jul 10, 2009, 7:12 am |
| RE: RE: My Years In the Insurance Business | charlie | Jul 10, 2009, 1:52 am |
| Coming up on 40 years | RM | Jul 9, 2009, 3:07 pm |
| RE: RE: 27 Years on the Agency/Brokerage/Company taught me.. | DIANNE | Jul 9, 2009, 2:09 pm |
| RE: 27 Years on the Agency/Brokerage/Company taught me... | Linda | Jul 9, 2009, 12:09 pm |
| Just when you learn everything....... | Insurance Guy | Jul 9, 2009, 11:28 am |
| RE: My Years In the Insurance Business | Stat Guy | Jul 9, 2009, 10:08 am |
| 27 Years on the Agency/Brokerage/Company taught me... | Charles Putnam | Jul 9, 2009, 7:45 am |
| RE: RE: RE: Has it taught you? | markl | Jul 9, 2009, 6:44 am |
| 20 Years in Insurance | Sanjiv Kumar Dobhal | Jul 8, 2009, 11:34 pm |
| 22 Years and counting | InsuranceGoddess | Jul 8, 2009, 10:11 pm |
| 22 years, but don't know if I can take more | Tardy | Jul 8, 2009, 9:14 pm |
| 45 years and counting | Stew Sawyer | Jul 8, 2009, 7:08 pm |
| RE: Has it taught you? | Maxine | Jul 8, 2009, 6:27 pm |
| Six Sigma | Jack Welch | Jul 8, 2009, 6:23 pm |
| Has it taught you? | Sr. UW Girl | Jul 8, 2009, 6:16 pm |
| RE: Much longer ago | Claims Guy | Jul 8, 2009, 5:09 pm |
| RE: Has it taught you? | Harry S Truman | Jul 8, 2009, 4:38 pm |
| 25 years of underwriting...to 5 | nomesaneman | Jul 8, 2009, 4:38 pm |
| What 27 years have taught me. | VOX | Jul 8, 2009, 3:35 pm |
| RE: My Years In the Insurance Business | Underwriting Queen | Jul 8, 2009, 2:51 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: The best has yet to come | Rusty | Jul 8, 2009, 2:42 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: The best has yet to come | nobody important | Jul 8, 2009, 2:36 pm |
| RE: RE: Has it taught you? | Rambo | Jul 8, 2009, 2:04 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: Digital Age... | MadDog | Jul 8, 2009, 1:51 pm |
| RE: RE: The best has yet to come | RR | Jul 8, 2009, 1:50 pm |
| RE: RE: The best has yet to come | Jack J Maniscalco | Jul 8, 2009, 1:49 pm |
| RE: The best has yet to come | Ralph | Jul 8, 2009, 1:45 pm |
| What 27 Years Has Taught Me | David L. Vaughan | Jul 8, 2009, 1:39 pm |
| RE: Learn the Business | New Generation | Jul 8, 2009, 1:31 pm |
| Learn the Business | Tony | Jul 8, 2009, 1:27 pm |
| My Years In the Insurance Business | Charles Chaffin CPCU, CLU, ARM | Jul 8, 2009, 1:12 pm |
| The best has yet to come | New Generation | Jul 8, 2009, 12:56 pm |
| Old Stuff | InsIsMyPassion | Jul 8, 2009, 12:45 pm |
| RE: Much longer ago | Macster | Jul 8, 2009, 12:40 pm |
| RE: Has it taught you? | Linda V | Jul 8, 2009, 12:37 pm |
| RE: Has it taught you? | Larry Sims | Jul 8, 2009, 12:37 pm |
| RE: RE: Digital Age... | pita | Jul 8, 2009, 12:34 pm |
| RE: Digital Age... | Way Back | Jul 8, 2009, 12:30 pm |
| Digital Age... | Left around to the Right | Jul 8, 2009, 11:51 am |
| RE: RE: Has it taught you? | reaching retirement? | Jul 8, 2009, 10:32 am |
| Much longer ago | Lowell | Jul 8, 2009, 10:32 am |
| RE: Has it taught you? | J R | Jul 8, 2009, 10:05 am |
| Has it taught you? | Quartermaster | Jul 8, 2009, 9:15 am |
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Subject: 21 years in - The truth as I see it!
1. Insurance cycles will come and go and then come again. Don't get your knickers in a twist because the market is too hard or because it's too soft. Change is the constant.
2. Insurance is a small town - make friends - you will see these people again!
3. As a woman who started in the business, young and blond....I will admit that I had to work 2x as hard and be smart to be taken seriously. However, as time has passed, working 2x as hard and being smart has benefitted me and my carreer much more than anything else would have!
4. Read the form!
5. Don't be threatened by change, embrace it. No matter which insurance geneeration you are from, if you can combine past experience with the current environment you will flourish. If you meet the current environment with a "well, in my day blah blah blah" you will perish.
6. Understand the broad business rather than the little bit you are responsible for. Nothing has impacted my career more than having a broad business perspective.