My Life After News

This is a posting about my moves into the insurance field. It might be something for some former news folks.

LAS VEGAS, NV (March 30, 2009) – Deep Throat in the movie version of “All The President’s Men” told Woodward and Bernstein, “Follow the money.” Ironically, the real Deep Throat – Mark Felt – never said that. The line was written by screenwriter William Goldman.

Despite the line being Hollywood fiction, it still made sense to me – especially when covering politics or crime. Money, as we heard in the musical Cabaret, makes the world go round.

As a result, I was always drawn to financial and consumer news.

That’s one of the reasons in February I studied and passed the Nevada Insurance License test. It’s only been a month since I received my license, so I’m in the process of working with some investment and insurance companies. This post will show you my plan. See if it’s something like that might work for you.

The first thing you should do is call one of the insurance schools in your area. I used Kaplan and was very pleased. I took the five-day course. On that Friday, I passed the Kaplan required test and then the next day, a Saturday, I passed the state test.

It wasn’t easy. It required some studying and plenty of concentration in the classes. Fortunately, I had plenty of experience with insurance.

But it wasn’t difficult either. What made it easy for me was to dedicate a whole week to the course and completing all the requirements.

Any questions, just respond in the comment section here or at JohnDalyInsurance.

Tags: broadcasters, insurance business, JohnDalyConsulting, out of work journalists, TV news

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