May 31 of this year was a bittersweet day of sorts. That’s the day my license as an insurance producer in the state of New Jersey expired. I never got the chance to actually become the eternally derided ‘insurance salesman’ as I instead took a job writing about the fashion industry before I could snag my first client.
But in studying for the licensure test, I learned a lot about insurance and gained a great deal of appreciation for it..