A life-insurance recruiter shares the one question he asks every candidate: do you want to sell insurance forever, or build a company by teaching and scaling? He warns that high commissions trap agents in lifestyle inflation, forcing them to keep selling just to pay the mortgage.
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4, 3, 4, 5, 6, 700 grand. You can make that all day selling. It's good money. Go buy a nice house, 2 new cars, and private school tuition for 2 or 3 kids. There ain't no money left. Now you have to sell to maintain your lifestyle. Careful. Y'all know someone, someone in my group, been here selling 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 years, Hall of Fame every year, and they can't slow down because it has to sustain their lifestyle. I don't want to be in that spot. I ain't mad at it being a part of the process long term. That's just not what I wanted. When I hire people, that's one of the first questions I ask. Do you want to be a life insurance salesperson for the rest of your life, or do you have any interest in one day building a company? Everyone says that. Make sense? You got to learn it, and you got to teach it, and then you got to teach someone to teach it.