John Wetmore and a colleague discuss why insurance gets a bad rap. One speaker has loved insurance since second grade and argues the industry offers real variety: sales, technology, podcasts. It's a vehicle for what you actually care about, not just a source of stress.
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When you do things you don't love, it's called stress. When you do things you really care for or love, it's called passion. Yeah. You know, and it's funny how this industry stresses a lot of people out. Mm-hmm. And it makes me question like, what's driving it?
You know, and that I talk about that a lot too, because, you know, I view insurance really the industry as a whole as a vehicle to get you to your passion. Right. And I always say this is that, you know, my passion I get to pursue it within the— so I love insurance, right? I'm the weird kid, right, who has since second grade wanted to be an insurance agent, yada yada, right? And it really is. But I've been able to tap into my passion while I'm in the industry, right? Like there's some people and even people in my office, insurance isn't their passion, but it's the vehicle because of just, I mean, the amazing opportunities that present itself, whether you're selling the product or the technology or you're doing podcasts or whatever it is. It's the vehicle that can get you to your passions, right? It doesn't always have to be insurance, but man, there ain't nothing that touches this industry, man.