Forward March! (Job front)

 Yes, yes, and thank you, yes! I am at work now, sitting behind my new desk, (probably going to change out chairs soon) and having such a great time. With Allstate you don't just come onboard and start selling even if, as in my case, you've been selling insurance for years, you have to go through their Allstate University, making sure you cross your T's and dot your i's so they (corporate) know you have what it takes to be one of them. I've been playing student for two days now and I've never been more content! (I could be a professional student if someone would pay me to do that.) LOVE learning. 

Basically, the plan is to go a very traditional route in sales of life, property & casualty, and get a bit of the book built before taking on the Securities and Exchange tests (SERIES) for financial planning.  There are more than enough financial planners in Oklahoma, I won't be staying here very long. My plan is to get my licenses and move on to Scotland as an investment broker using Allstate products either captively or in general if they allow for an open agreement.  Obviously, it would be to my benefit to be able to sell for other companies, and it would be beneficial for my clients as well. Being in the UK and working primarily with American clients I will have a six hour head start on anyone I do business with; being able to be on top of the markets that open before the NY Stock Exchange. More arrows in my quiver, so to speak. Should be good. 

Of course, I will want to service anyone and everyone equally, and if clients from the UK wish to sit with me and go over numbers and port folios that won't bother me whatsoever; I welcome all souls with good intentions. Before long I will be practicing my day trading skills for my own personal passive income, giving me a secondary income opportunity in both the U.S. and the UK should I decide to move and work from my home rather than being appointed with a firm.  It won't be tomorrow, so my new (and very wonderfully bearded) boss will not have cause to worry. If I do leave him I'll work with him on a partnership basis; it's all good! Striking out on my own has never scared me. I think I prefer what others call fear anyway. I like knowing I don't have to freak out just because things seem a bit scary! I like proving to myself that I have more than enough to spit in Satan's eye now and then. 

Steps! Baby steps! First today, then tomorrow. Next week and next month have enough time to stew before I bring the cornbread and call it dinner. It's my time to fly - - and my turn to learn.