Overwhelming - But Not In A Bad Way

I'm beginning to realize just how complex the insurance industry can be. Currently, I'm studying property insurance and there are so many elements to consider and learn. Yesterday, I concentrated on general property insurance and basic definitions. Today I spent the majority of my time focusing on Dwelling Policy. The concept itself is not difficult to grasp but there are just so many instances dealing with dwellings. Some homes can be on a dwellings policy if they aren't under a homeowners policy. Homeowners is tomorrow. I'll be studying some more tonight basically just trying to memorize.

Some insurance underwriters came in from a major company and I sat in on the meeting. I heard a lot of gibberish that didn't make sense but hopefully next week, I'll sit in on another meeting and things will be more clear for me. I know it sounds like all I'm doing right now is studying and I suppose that's absolutely the case. I really like it though and that scares me. I think I'm going to do well once I finally start building my book of business.

Okay so let's examine a reason why I did not like a past job. I won't get into too much detail regarding who they were, but as I said in an earlier post, when I moved home I went to work for an executive recruiting company. Because of that particular organization, I am now very well versed in the concept of micromanagement. Micromanagement will probably turn out to be a theme in this little section of my posts but I'll pick something specific tonight. Email. Common sense would tell me not to give my work email address out to friends. Common sense wasn't in play when I first started so I sent an email to a friend from my work account informing them of my new position. That friend emailed me back and I in turn emailed them again. That was put to rest VERY quickly when a manager came up to me and told me to get back to work (I never stopped working due to the fact that I can multi task and type emails while I'm sitting on hold). Apparently the owner had been reading every one of my emails...all two of them.

Don't get me wrong. Legally, I know they are well within their rights to do that but seriously, that is annoying and everyone I worked with had a problem with the fact that all of their emails were screened. My team leader got reprimanded and he had no idea why he was being talked to the way he was. His manager told him that he'd get the email in a minute from a client but the owner had already seen and read it. Micromanagement at it's finest. Just know that Big Brother is watching and he's kind of a jerk.