Nanatchawat
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Hello. I am Nat, from Thailand, 47 years old, married, no kids. I am an introvert.
I've been jobless for about one year. With the C0VlD-19 pandemic, it's very hard to get a job. The first thing I did in November 2019 was being a freelance copywriter because I love writing compelling copy. I bought a copywriting course to learn and kept practicing. I had studied the course and finished it in 3 months.
And then, I started to find the clients. I promoted myself as a total fresh copywriter to the market. The problems are I have zero experience, zero portfolios, and I am not an expert in any industry, i.e. Finance, Health & wellness, Fundraising, Business, and Marketing, just to name a few. However, I didn't give up. I created my CV and posted it on many job broad websites. My target markets are the US, UK, Canada, and Australia based clients. Unfortunately, I got none of the responses from them. I just couldn't land the clients. Maybe, they think it would be a less effective copy if they were to hire someone who is a non-English native speaker, like me, to write a compelling copy in plain English. Well, I had struggled with that for another 3 months before I quit.
And then, I decided to start a new career. It is a Life Insurance agent. It's been almost two months now since I applied to it. I heard those agents proudly say, you are building a business of your own by working as a life insurance agent. What you have to do is to keep talking to people every day and sell them the insurance. In addition to that, you have to recruit the new agents and build the sales team as your asset so that you'll be able to earn a big chunk of passive income after 5-10 years in this career.
To me, talking to people with the life insurance selling aim in mind makes me uncomfortable, awkward, and fear of losing a good friendship. Talking to a stranger is not that comfortable for me because I am an introvert. Plus, it's pretty difficult to sell life insurance to people in Thailand as they have a variety of objections and a bad experience in the past.
I'm curious to know what I should do to financially survive at this moment. Should I keep working as a life insurance agent or go find a 9-5 job, or start something new such as creating a course to solve people's problem and sell it online?
Does a "life insurance agent" career fall into CENTS, a 5-commandment Fastlane model?
I've been jobless for about one year. With the C0VlD-19 pandemic, it's very hard to get a job. The first thing I did in November 2019 was being a freelance copywriter because I love writing compelling copy. I bought a copywriting course to learn and kept practicing. I had studied the course and finished it in 3 months.
And then, I started to find the clients. I promoted myself as a total fresh copywriter to the market. The problems are I have zero experience, zero portfolios, and I am not an expert in any industry, i.e. Finance, Health & wellness, Fundraising, Business, and Marketing, just to name a few. However, I didn't give up. I created my CV and posted it on many job broad websites. My target markets are the US, UK, Canada, and Australia based clients. Unfortunately, I got none of the responses from them. I just couldn't land the clients. Maybe, they think it would be a less effective copy if they were to hire someone who is a non-English native speaker, like me, to write a compelling copy in plain English. Well, I had struggled with that for another 3 months before I quit.
And then, I decided to start a new career. It is a Life Insurance agent. It's been almost two months now since I applied to it. I heard those agents proudly say, you are building a business of your own by working as a life insurance agent. What you have to do is to keep talking to people every day and sell them the insurance. In addition to that, you have to recruit the new agents and build the sales team as your asset so that you'll be able to earn a big chunk of passive income after 5-10 years in this career.
To me, talking to people with the life insurance selling aim in mind makes me uncomfortable, awkward, and fear of losing a good friendship. Talking to a stranger is not that comfortable for me because I am an introvert. Plus, it's pretty difficult to sell life insurance to people in Thailand as they have a variety of objections and a bad experience in the past.
I'm curious to know what I should do to financially survive at this moment. Should I keep working as a life insurance agent or go find a 9-5 job, or start something new such as creating a course to solve people's problem and sell it online?
Does a "life insurance agent" career fall into CENTS, a 5-commandment Fastlane model?
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