Started my life as an insurance agent from Dec 1999... wanted to join in as a part time agent to sell only baby insurance... Graduating from being a Chartered Secretary, ICSA, one year and only one year was more than enough for me... I knew for a FACT that I could not possible be a Chartered Secretary for life.. it was too mundane and boring for me.. for that I just had to try my luck in Tax Industry... hmmn... another... 9 to 6pm desk job... and when it comes to the budget month, boy!! we had to work tiill 5am in the morning... till my husband and parents... said ENOUGH is ENough!!!
Oh well, as my hubby is a professional Musician, I had to sacrifice my time... as marriage life would not be meaningful if we never got to meet each other at all.. me working day and him working nights... so after 2 years of tax, and getting my Associate, I left to desk job employment industry..
Thereafter, I was forced into teaching music and dance lessons.. Teaching music was such a chore.. so i quit within the month itself... Dance, was on the other hand, an enjoyment... I have my UK teacher's Diploma Cert and taught for a few years till I had my first miscarriage... Then, it was doctors advice to stop.. and when my dance teacher died of cervical cancer, I never went back... sigh...
It was when I was pregnant that I started realising that there was a great market out there to sell baby education insurance!... but no cheek to say I wanted to be one... owe it to my mom to call AIA to tell them her daughter wanted to be an insurance agent... so embarrassing!
I was then called up by my leader when I was about to give birth to my eldest child... imagine me going for all my exams.. after my birth.. :)
There... I got stuck till now... so fast... 9 years have gone.. and I realised what made me stay on for so long... It was the joy in meeting people, the satisfaction in myself when I manage to settle the claims, be it by any insurance Companies, watchiing the smile and relief on the faces that I've helped along the way.. there has been joyful moments and sad moments when I watch my clients winced in pain when diagnosed with Critical Illness, and death... a total grief within myself when I watch them and their families suffer mentally and physically, a lesson to be learned.... to appreaciate your loved ones around you and not take life for granted......
Oh well, as my hubby is a professional Musician, I had to sacrifice my time... as marriage life would not be meaningful if we never got to meet each other at all.. me working day and him working nights... so after 2 years of tax, and getting my Associate, I left to desk job employment industry..
Thereafter, I was forced into teaching music and dance lessons.. Teaching music was such a chore.. so i quit within the month itself... Dance, was on the other hand, an enjoyment... I have my UK teacher's Diploma Cert and taught for a few years till I had my first miscarriage... Then, it was doctors advice to stop.. and when my dance teacher died of cervical cancer, I never went back... sigh...
It was when I was pregnant that I started realising that there was a great market out there to sell baby education insurance!... but no cheek to say I wanted to be one... owe it to my mom to call AIA to tell them her daughter wanted to be an insurance agent... so embarrassing!
I was then called up by my leader when I was about to give birth to my eldest child... imagine me going for all my exams.. after my birth.. :)
There... I got stuck till now... so fast... 9 years have gone.. and I realised what made me stay on for so long... It was the joy in meeting people, the satisfaction in myself when I manage to settle the claims, be it by any insurance Companies, watchiing the smile and relief on the faces that I've helped along the way.. there has been joyful moments and sad moments when I watch my clients winced in pain when diagnosed with Critical Illness, and death... a total grief within myself when I watch them and their families suffer mentally and physically, a lesson to be learned.... to appreaciate your loved ones around you and not take life for granted......
