Not at all what you'd, expected, switching from working in a school, teaching a class, to a real estate agent, where you'd had to, apply your, persuasive skills, to try to get your clients to purchase a property from you, but this new line of work keeps your mind active, so, you'd achieved what you'd set out to, to WARD off DEMENTIA! Translated…
A Month into the Real Estate Agency, I'd Switched Two Firms……….
The First Company Immediately Gave Me the Shocks
After I'd retired from teaching in the elementary school years, a lot of friends, would inquire, "What have you been up to after retiring?", as I'd responded, "I'm working as a real estate agent right now.", they would mostly be quite, surprised, while some would find it, disagreeing.
Before I filed for retirement, I'd thought long and hard what I'm to do after I retired? I'd been in "school", ever since I graduated from, school, and, after close to thirty years, there's no feeling of "going out into the world" on this career path of mine, and, I'd filed for early retirement, because I wanted to experience how it is to find work. But, with no other skillset, after considering hard, those hobbies I'd taken up, weren't enough to make a career out of. After considering, I'd found a job in sales, through the use of, "languages", just as I'd done from before, this became, my best choice of a second career after my retirement.
The most familiar were insurance agents, and proprietary agents, but, thinking about the words in fine print on the confidentiality clauses, I'd, back out, because of not having 20/20 eyesight, I wasn't interested in this, particular field of work, and so, proprietary agent became, my "dream". With the dreams of having a pretty home myself, flexible work hours, along with, the not so hard to pass certification means, soon as I retired, I'd, actively worked towards becoming a real estate, agent, and successfully, I got into a real estate agency.
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A little over a month in, I'd switched to two firms. The first agency I worked in, was American-styled, and elitist, it'd felt like I was an average student, placed in the gifted and talented classes, I'd felt, "I'm no good", and that feel of defeat rushed me over like the tidal waves, that's what I'd, never had before. I'd known, that sticking with this, won't make me great, but instead, I am surely, to break, so I'd, immediately, switched to a totally, different sort of agent, from the beginning lessons of real estate agent training.
Can't Believe How Difficult it Was for Me to Tell a Story Based Off of the Photographs
There's a lot I had to learn as a real estate agent, I'm most confident in y own, "speaking skills", after all, I'd talked from morn to dusk, for a whole of, thirty, years. And yet, things didn't work according to plan, as the targeted audience of instructors are usually students, and the contents, set, while the real estate agent needed to connect with those from various jobs, and need to know everything about, everything, and had to, pass along the professional knowledge of real estate to the clients at the precise moment. Same sort of speaking, the real estate agent's work was totally different compared to the school instructor's lectures, and I'd often, gotten, tongue, tied.
The next challenge came, to write the ad mottos, although, writing should be nothing for school instructors, but, I'd, stared at the photos of the properties, and, not known, where to, begin. Isn't this, the same as, telling a story based off of a picture that's been provided to you? The lower grade children assignments, how hard can that be? But, considering how I had to come up with something eye-catching ad phrase, how I had to, capture the attention of those who are potential clients, I'd become, stumped. So I can only, started, skimming through the ads that those who came before me wrote, to learn the ways; for others, it's, half an hour, an ad got cranked out, for me, I'd, managed to, only squeeze one ad out of me, after four hours of my eight hour workday.
The biggest trial of the realtors is the related regulations of law, and the tax rates that are, too totally, diverse, along with the pricing, because every property is unique, an there are the different cost, tax rates, the law's restrictions that fitted each individually, there's no one-size-fit-all formula. I'm completely in awe at those senior real estate agents, for using the tax rates, the regulations, completely, and so, in coping with these complex rules and regulations of the professional knowledge, I can only make fun, that at least, working as a real estate agent can't help me ward off dementia.
For over a month, I'd met a ton of coworkers with the interesting stories of their lives, they'd worked hard, to make their own lives, count, working hard, to achieve their, dreams. Recalling my career in teaching, and I'd felt, that everything I thought was difficult, is nothing in comparing, and I'd come to believe, that the field of education, is like a huge protective umbrella I'd lived under, previously.
Retirement is not rest, but to make our exits from our old habits, to reset to zero, to learn how to start working on a clean slate again. "Learning as we grow older" this is not a motto of the real estate industry, and who says, that a retired school instructor can't become, a real estate, agent?
So, this is on challenging oneself, to keep one's own mind active, after retirement, because you are now, retired, you'd wanted to find something that you can do, and you thought that the real estate business shouldn't be that hard, after all, you'd, used your mouth to make a living formerly, but, once you'd begun working, you'd realized, that there are, a ton of knowledge that you hadn't acquired yet to be successful, and that will keep your mind active, because learning new things, that's what keeps the mind from, deteriorating, away, and in the end, you may not become an all-star sales agent in real estate, but hey, at least, look on the bright side, it's a good GUARANTEE, that your brains won't, deteriorate, having to learn the new skillsets, that'll, help your mind stay, active.
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