In the fall of 2004, after my first heart attack, I left my job in architecture and began doing the computer business I had started in 1997 full time. Over the next several years my computer business continued to thrive and grow. By 2009 I had a 2,400 square foot retail and repair shop with 4 employees. In the fall of 2011, the shifts in computer technology began to directly affect my business' bottom line. Over the next two years I was required to lay off all of my employees, move 2 times to ever smaller facilities, and eventually ended up in a 300 square foot office all by myself. During those business years I learned many valuable management lessons, several life lessons, and a lot about people.
My mother passed in 2009 after a long battle with many health issues. My father passed in the fall of 2012 unexpectedly. During their lives, my parents had amassed a large amount of antiques, collectibles, some properties, an enormous amount of junk, and a massive amount of debt. My brother and I began the daunting process of dealing with our parents estate in the fall of 2012. During which time I gained an intimate understanding of the tremendous need for estate pre-planning. My father's life insurance was minuscule, but even this small amount was greatly appreciated, needed, and somewhat life changing for my family and I. It took us three painstaking years, many, many hours, and every friend we could find, to clean up my parents estate. The estate process was a very valuable, eye opening, and educational experience.
In the fall of 2015, I was working on a computer for one of my good business clients and discussing the many challenges of business ownership. In the process of our conversation, we discovered that I had a need to adapt my working environment, and my client had the need for a new agent with their growing insurance agency.
The process of my parent's estate had awakened a new perspective within me. I had a new understanding of the necessities of things like life insurance, estate planning, planning for the unexpected, and anticipating that certain events may happen in our lives even if we don't want them to. We must protect our loved ones, and do our best to strengthen our family's security.
With my new found perspectives, I daringly embarked on a completely new adventure in the unknown world of insurance! At the age of 52 I was beginning a whole new chapter of life.
This blog is a documentation of my personal journey into the unknown. My Journey Into Insurance!
KC
