Career Advice Please

[Arrian]

Dan is right about cost-conciousness in insurance. There are some funny stories from back when our company was struggling a bit in the early 90s... stuff like cutting off the supply of post-it notes.

Then again, some of that was a reaction from the crazy 1980s, when insurance companies did all sorts of idiotic expensive things.

I don't know if I can really see a connection between what you do now, what you want to do, and this insurance gig. It reads to me like:

Step 1: biotech engineer
Step 2: manager at insurance company
Step 3: ??
Step 4: PROFIT!

Best of luck.

-Arrian

[Provost Harrison]

I think it is a good thing for people to get a change of job and career now and again. There was once such a thing as a job for life. Doing the same job for life would almost certainly drive me to suicide

[Lancer]

I've never done the same thing for more than 5 years, but I came back to what I'd done previously a couple times.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Also remember, if it's "regional manager", you aren't going to be selling insurance... you're going to be managing. Do you like managing? You'll basically have a boss telling you every day "why aren't your guys selling more insurance", and you will be telling your district managers every day "sell more insurance", and trying to figure out ways to do so (and to tell them how to tell their managees how etc.).

Do you like that? A lot of scientists hate managing... but are you one of them?

I personally don't like managing other people very much... but plenty of people enjoy it and are good at it, so you just have to figure that out

Excellent observation, I am a Regional Manager. I have 46 current employees I supervise.

Regional Manager is another word for Hey Boy

Best of fortunes Japher, I think Snoopy369 also has stated about checking former employees if possible. A grain of salt yes, but if something keeps rising to top, it might be founded, such as unobtainable goals for bonus/incentives.

I have allways enjoyed percentages of bottom line for incentive awards.

Happy career hunting changes!

Gramps

[Japher]

I'm on the fence

I do like the pay for what you put in

I don't like the fact that it's not in my field

I do like the management experience, which will be a long time coming where I'm at.

I don't like the idea of constant nagging from your boss.

I do like the fact that I will know my boss in a manner that is less then professional, and will have been recruited rather than begged for the job.

Hmmmm... options are good though. I also have a marketing lead, but that won't come to a point of exercising until another year.

I definitly want out of this science realm for a time. I see the old engineers around me, and I pity them. I can't image being pushed around by someone twice my age for a thrid of their salary while I have twice their knowledge. All because they have an ivy league degree and a bunch of letters after their name doesn't make up for years of experience and know how, as well as a but load of intelligence.

I don't see respect from upper management, anywhere. So, I might as well become upper management, and show them how it;'s done.

[Lancer]

Upper management seems to always fall for the ass kissers who continueously massage their egos until they start believing how wonderful they are and looking down on the little people, the regular Joe. In the process they lose their humanity, and perhaps their souls.

All I know is I've seen it too often to want to manage anybody.