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We all know the kind of lives that men in the military live. Most of the times, they live a very tough and difficult life. They are cut off from civilization and in the times of war, have to literally hang on to their sanity. No doubt, it is an honorable and respectable job, but it also puts them under immense pressure. This is one of the main reasons, why they would want to make ‘trucking’ an immediate job option after retirement. It cuts out their stress completely from their lives.

Trucking is one of the jobs or occupations that has the least, or practically no amount of stress at all. Even most experts have proved, that if you are stressed out, you need to go for a drive. The whole atmosphere of the scene and breeze works well for you. Driving is a great way of de-stressing. The scenery and the folks you keep encountering on the way, all add color to your life and make it more interesting.

And when you talk about trucks, they are not too difficult at all to drive. In fact, they are simple and easy to drive. Trucks have power steering, fully equipped with all kinds of satellite communication, phones, and DVD system, which make the journey all the more comfortable and exciting. They have different kind of set up from what they normally used to be. What they need is a stretch of open road.

Even though, it is a fact that military men make good drivers is because of their special training and education that they had received, while in the services of the military. The kind of heavy vehicles that they drove is a kind of expertise that they have developed over a period of time. This is the main criterion, why most trucking companies are more than willing to hire ex-servicemen. They really don’t need to spend much time and money on training them, to do trucking well. They are most glad to recruit them, who are thorough professionals.

After retirement, it is difficult to find an occupation that pays well. But, in the trucking business you get life insurance, free medical check ups, overtime, and many other added benefits. Some military guys, who have been into repairing and servicing of trucks, find this quite a lucrative business to pursue after retirement. Since they have been working in the maintenance department for so many years, it becomes very easy for them to continue to do the same.

Even most trucking companies would happily hire a hardcore mechanic anytime. Someone who they know, is well versed with his stuff, would be selected immediately. So actually, whether you are driving or repairing a truck, it is still an enjoyable occupation to get into post retirement. But honestly, there is nothing like trucking business. You are free to make money according to how many trips you want to make or choose to be at home with your family. There is no pressure and you can actually get the time to ‘smell the rain’, something you longed for in the earlier part of your life. Hence trucking is a good occupation after you retire from the forces.

One of my college roommates had a brother who was a graduate business student and often visited our rooms. Since one of my possible career choices was to work in business, I asked this business student many questions about his studies and career choices. Everything he said expanded my knowledge and made me more interested in a business career.

This information meant a lot to me because I grew up in a small city where there were only two large employers, the Santa Fe Railway and the U.S. Air Force. Neither organization provided opportunities to learn about executive success in a large corporation.

When I began graduate business studies, I was pretty smug, thinking that I knew just what needed to be done: Get a prestigious degree and wait for highly attractive employers to bid for my services.

Talking with the other business students made me realize that I had a lot to learn about career success. I didn’t even understand what executives did in different industries.

My complacent eyes were opened wide one day when a management consultant from the famous McKinsey firm made a presentation. At the end of the discussion, I asked one of the other students who got to do what this presenter did for a living. My classmate quickly responded, “Strategy consultants.” I asked, “What’s a strategy consultant?” He responded that these were people who worked for McKinsey or The Boston Consulting Group. I remembered those answers and later applied to both firms, not quite knowing what to expect.

Even with all of this knowledge, I was totally unclear about how you went from being a management consultant to having a successful business career working for a large corporation. I guessed that someday a client might hire you. And that’s what did happen to me after I became a strategy consultant.

The key lesson from my experience is that you can have a wonderful education at a university and still lack important knowledge about the most fundamental elements of developing your business career.

Students typically prefer to get information about potential careers from fellow students and professors, but research shows that students and professors provide incomplete information. It’s better to also speak with people who have been developing a career for a decade or so to find out what lessons they learned in the school of hard knocks.

I was recently reminded of this source of information to make more effective business career plans when I corresponded with Dr. Robert Hartinger, a banking executive in Germany who is a Ph.D. graduate of Rushmore University. Dr. Hartinger kindly agreed to share his career experiences and lessons with me so that I could pass them along to you.

Dr. Hartinger started off presuming that the quality of your education was very important to career success. After graduating from his business program at a German university, he soon learned that you have few occasions to apply any of the theoretical knowledge that most schools provide. As a result, new graduates are stuffed full of knowledge and theory that has little relevance to what their employers need.

Instead, degrees qualify people to be considered for certain jobs. Many employers pride themselves on hiring from certain schools and restricting top jobs to those with the most advanced graduate degrees.

Traditional schooling provides few insights into what various industries and types of jobs are like. If students aren’t careful, they’ll seek a type of work that they won’t like. There are two alternatives available:

1. Examine industries and jobs carefully to set the right objectives.

2. Study at a school where you get practical experience in applying theoretical knowledge which gives you a sense of what a career doing that work might be like.

Dr. Hartinger doesn’t rule out the first alternative, but he’s confident that the second one is essential. If possible do both, but at least do the second. From what you learn, he also recommends that you focus on just a few opportunities. Otherwise, your attention and energies will be too widely scattered.

A lot of business success depends on your personality. That’s something that graduate schools often ignore. Outgoing people with pleasing, helpful personalities will do a lot better than grumpy, self-absorbed geniuses who rarely talk to anyone.

Many studies show that the ability to connect to other people in the organization greatly helps both job effectiveness and advancement. Why? It’s simple: You can’t know all of the answers, but with help from others you can do a great job.

But it’s not enough to simply be a connection point within the organization. You also need to add skills that improve your effectiveness.

Here’s where online learning can make a difference. People don’t care where you learn a skill; they are just pleased when you add one that’s relevant to your situation.

Today, many companies offer financial assistance for those who wish to learn new skills. When that assistance is provided over the Internet, costs are reduced and you can take more courses than those who enroll in classroom-based courses. In addition, learning while you work allows you the chance to apply what you are learning. In that way, you can sift through lots of theoretical knowledge to get just what you need. Dr. Hartinger also notes that if an online school offers flexibility in designing courses, your skill improvement can be even greater.

Insights from My Personal 28 Year Journey: Looking back, I never dreamed that one day I would be earning the kind of income that the insurance industry has provided my family and I with today! My desire is to help other insurance agents do as well in the insurance industry as we have been blessed to do. The following are some basic insights to those who are just starting out in insurance sales or maybe considering an insurance sales career. Here are some important truths most licensed insurance agents are not told when they start their careers in insurance sales.

The average insurance agents’ income in our industry is around $34,000 per year. Most insurance agents will never build up enough renewal income to retire on. 80%-90% who start an insurance career in insurance sales will not make it in the insurance business beyond five years. Mastering prospecting and marketing, not necessarily selling (although selling skills are very important) is the key to succeeding long term in insurance sales. Most Career or Captive contracts take years to become 100% vested on your own sales. Many agents sign up under contracts that never offer vesting rights. Independent Insurance Agent contracts can provide immediate 100% vesting rights and usually pay higher commissions. Having the ability to pick and choose the companies you would like to sell products for allows you to be more flexible and offer more solutions to your prospective clients.

Had I searched out the advice and wisdom of someone who had been down the road I was heading first, it would have had a significant impact with the time it took to become successful in insurance sales. If I only knew then in 1981 when I started my career in insurance sales what I know now after many years of trial and error, learning things the hard way, testing many different sales, prospecting and marketing techniques, some that worked and many that didn’t, I would have been able to eliminate ten plus years of frustration and slower growth.

Let me emphasize that insurance sales can be one of the most rewarding, exciting, challenging and fulfilling careers for anyone who is self motivated, goal oriented, has good work habits, loves challenges and wants to be in control of their own destiny. The most important lesson I’ve learned over and over is that there is no new formula to becoming successful. Although there have been some great advancements in technology and the internet has created some exciting new ways to find prospects and market your products. Success in the insurance industry still requires the development of certain traits and habits that continually propel you forward towards your goals. Some of the tools we use to get there have changed but the personal ingredients needed have remained the same.

Many insurance agents excel well beyond our industries average income mentioned above. However, the chances of becoming one of the industries failing statistics are much higher, especially if you are not starting from a position of knowledge and available resources. Seek out the knowledge of someone who has traveled the road before you. Understand the differences between what an Independent Insurance Agent contract offers and a Career or Captive contract offers. Get a feel for the type of support and resources you will need to have the best chance for success as you move forward. There are many good quality Agency support systems you can plug into. You will want to find an agency system that provides a good size product portfolio, product training, lead and prospecting support as well as growth opportunities that allow you to reach General Agent commission levels.

If you’re someone who has a willingness to learn and the desire to succeed, if you enjoy working with and helping others, I truly believe an insurance sales career can be all you dream it could be. My reality has grown much larger than what my dreams were when I started my insurance sales career. So I encourage you to dream big dreams, step out and move forward to make them a reality too.

If you are interested in a agent support system that provides all the tools, support, and resources you will need to either become successful in insurance sales and/or build your own agency, visit the links or call 1-800-359-0980 (ask for Dan or Scott) to help you decide what’s best for you!

Thank you and make it a great career,

Daniel B. Hagy
President

Some of you might have felt bad, but thought you were making the best choice you could ever make by dropping out of high school. You might have done so to take care of a child. There are a number of reasons, but you might be regretting that decision and looking towards getting your GED. Well, what if we told you that there was a way to get GED online?

The GED is a hard test to take. It is unknown why it’s so hard, but there are classes you can take. While the actual test can’t be taken online, they normally offer ways to take the GED in your area, but you can do all the prep work online. Some of this prep work can even be done and for free too.

There are many different things that you can do to prepare yourself for the GED. This can be done online. There are resources that will give you sample questions like that which they might ask you to answer on the actual GED test. This can help you greatly.

They do have practice tests too that you can take. Here they will give you the actual test and give you the amount of time that you would be allotted to do this test. Then they will show you the answers that you got right as well as the answers that you got wrong.

Now there are many sites out there for you to locate a site that can help you take this sample test. The way yo u might want to start is just by doing a general search using any search engine. There are some that might charge you as well as those that might not. All you have to do is look.

Once you have taken the practice test and feel ready to take the actual test, then you can check out local testing areas in your city. There might be a few of them or there might not be that many. Just look around. Some of them charge you and normally they charge you seventy five dollars.

Now, that you know how to prepare yourself for the GED using an online source, we encourage you to do so. Good luck as you will have so many more opportunities when you do this. This will help you get into college and earn a degree that will better your future.

I’m 25 years old about to turn 26. I have not been able to have friends, go out, or have a girlfriend for the last 7 years due to deaths in family…so I’m had to stay home to take care. I grew up in a small town where all of the good looking girls where taken and I’ve always been told that I look good (I’m asian guy). It’s crazy now that I’m 25 and never had a girlfriend. I was so outgoing, and just about everybody liked me…and I was part of the “crowd” in school. Was a team captain of the golf team, etc etc. I lost everything except for my education, which now I’m working on my masters degree online. Is this normal to be feeling sad all the time due to my situation? I’m trying to be as optimistic as I can, and I want to know if there is anybody out there that is going through the same sort of thing.

Do I go through the Commision on Higher Education?
Just because the online school says they’re accredited will other schools accept the tranfered credits & will prospective employer’s take my degree seriously?

Have you tried university of Phoenix?

I HAVE HAD TO MOVE TO CENTRAL TENN, WILL ANY BODY LET ME TAKE MY 4 COURSES OR DO IT ONLINE AND GRADUATE.

Friends, plz. tell me I want to do a Masters Degree from any internation university by Distance Education or Online.

I work full time and im not sure if i can get a degree from only night classes or online classes.