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I spent 6 years traveling the southeast trying to make it as a professional golfer. I lived in my car with my rottweiler unless I played well enough to split hotel rooms with friends playing the mini tours.
At some point my financial advisor friend caddied for me in a tournament and convinced me to join him as a stockbroker. I still remember one of my first days sitting in my first office staring at a phone, a blinking trading screen and finding a chat forum on the internet where Top Insurance Producers gathered to discussed the secrets of success. At first I didn't believe them because they were doing the opposite of everything I was taught in wirehouse sales school. When the brokerage house training failed me, I migrated my way into selling insurance because cold calling and door knocking was the only way I was finding success.
One day when I was completely broke and tired of the beat downs from my wife, I started going door to door cold walking businesses to get ink on paper and I've never looked back. The day I dropped my FINRA licenses was the day I began to understand freedom in an unfree world.
At some point my financial advisor friend caddied for me in a tournament and convinced me to join him as a stockbroker. I still remember one of my first days sitting in my first office staring at a phone, a blinking trading screen and finding a chat forum on the internet where Top Insurance Producers gathered to discussed the secrets of success. At first I didn't believe them because they were doing the opposite of everything I was taught in wirehouse sales school. When the brokerage house training failed me, I migrated my way into selling insurance because cold calling and door knocking was the only way I was finding success.
One day when I was completely broke and tired of the beat downs from my wife, I started going door to door cold walking businesses to get ink on paper and I've never looked back. The day I dropped my FINRA licenses was the day I began to understand freedom in an unfree world.
