I believe that the district and individuals involved in training you can be a big downside. I personally experienced a lot of personal issues overshadowing business obligations. I felt that I was more of a tool for finding veteran agents more leads in the end; because I was promised, but not provided all the proper tools for understanding the business and being successful. Many of the veteran agents available to me at the time that I worked for the office were constantly involved in personal issues, interoffice relationships, and personal business obligations; which left me in limbo and clueless to what I needed to be doing on a day to day when trying to build and service my own clientele. A lot of broken promises during my experience also. Although, I will say there were other agents that came in at various points that had a different experiences and were quite successful. At some points I wondered if they were slightly uncomfortable with working with individuals of other ethnicities. I don't like to give up, but by hanging in there it cost me what little livelihood I entered with.
