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Will Technology Kill the Agent?
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So you use the software for your business knowing full well that it is not free for commercial use?
Many states require agents to take a short CE class on ethics.
After reading the above, I understand why.
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I have yet to see the insurance ethics ce that talks about pirated software or using software outside what it was intended.
Since I am a one man shop, and I do business in my own name, anything I use for personal or business use is the same.
There's another benefit to being independent: no software compliance Nazis in your agency.
Since I am a one man shop, and I do business in my own name, anything I use for personal or business use is the same.
There's another benefit to being independent: no software compliance Nazis in your agency.
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I understand your position... most people take the same sort of position you have taken when it comes to software, music, and video, usually stolen.
Rationalize it however you wish.
But to me it is not about compliance and it is not about semantics. It's about personal integrity and personal honesty... and just doing the right thing.
If you don't see what you are doing as being dishonest, well there is nothing anyone can say... but you might think about this if you have any doubts:
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, 78–82
(I majored in English in college!!)
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Ha. No wonder you are at NYL.
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And you are certain that I am with New York Life? Really?
Could it be that 'ny' might stand for something else?
Things are not always what they seem... or to again to show off what I learned in college (I don't often get a chance as an English major!! :-) ) :
"Hit is not al gold, that glareth." - Geoffrey Chaucer
This is better known:
"All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life has sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold
Had you been as wise as bold,
Your in limbs, in judgment old,
Your answer had not been in'scroll'd
Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!"
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
English is really not a bad college major for someone going into sales. A lot of people who majored in English (or liberal arts) buy insurance (especially ILIT and partner buy-sell succession plans)... and many of them like to buy from agents who are as (or almost as) educated as they are.
But you have to be careful. My uncle who retired after 50 years in the business said "Everyone likes a little ass... no one likes a smart ass!"
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
You are so full of ****
I'd hate to be you.
I can rhyme all day
I can rhyme all night
listen to your uncle
In your case he was right.
Violets are blue
You are so full of ****
I'd hate to be you.
I can rhyme all day
I can rhyme all night
listen to your uncle
In your case he was right.
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I guess I had that coming. I understand.
Sorry to have angered you.
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances... - Shakespere, As You Like It
And so I make my exit... "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away," I learned not take on fights I can't win. Better to fall back and live to fight another day.
God bless... semper fidelis.
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