It is time for me to leave the nest and start looking for a job. I have been doing the job search here, the job search there, but nothing has inspired me. In short, I don’t know what I want to do with my life! My dad has a job in insurance and he wants me to follow in the same foot-steps, though I am not sure I want to. Whenever I look at insurance employees, I see IFAs walking around in their grey suites and it puts me off. It has to be most boring industry, I reckon. Perhaps, I am being a bit sweeping in my comments, but lets look at the industry more closely. At the top of the insurance jobs pile will be some analysts, quants and actuaries who calculate probability of events happening, people dying etc, thereby assessing the risk of underwriting something, calculate a premium. Once they are happy they got the risk assessed, the marketing team will package it up, get it on the market – job done from their perspective and then the sales team will sell the product to the market place. Account management, customer services and the claims team will make the ongoing operations of the insurance company, while the HR department will ensure that the company has the staff needed to make it operate. These different jobs and department make up the bones of an insurance operator. Now if I was clever enough I would definitely go for an insurance job if I could be stactician or actuary, but none of the other insurance jobs interest me.
Then, I know from my dad that the UK government is trying its damnest to wipe out the average Financial Advisor, with all of the smaller IFA starting to disappear, overwhelmed with the ever growing amount of regulatory criteria that they need to keep to. I am not sure of the reason for thus, but I suspect it is to do with the crooks in the industry previously. The result is that many of the IFA are now looking for jobs themselves, as they find they can no longer make the money they did. So, we now have an insurance market where the smaller operators are disappearing, and the IFA are looking for jobs either with bigger operators or changing industry. Myself, I am doing a job search on a number of jobsite that I think will best suit my desire to get away from the insurance jobs market that my father has been in for many years.