I have been told that had I started selling insurance when I was 30, instead of going into IT and AV sales, that I would be wealthy and retired by now. Insurance gets residuals, if one does not opt to cash out early.
It all depends on the company behind you, and whatever stupid decisions that HQ makes to help their agents.
It seems to be the ultimate 80/20 job. The top 20% make it, the bottom 20% get shotgunned or starve and the rest in the middle have to decide which direction they will go.
My first wife was the Midwestern recruiter for a very well-known insurance company, a job that I found for her as I worked at the state job service office. Throughout the years I saw the new agents she hired. Those that followed directions and worked as hard as directed made a very good living and those that didn’t soon left. FReepmail me if you want to know the name of the company.