What’s it like to work at a large independent?
As the title implies I’m curious what it’s like for those who work at a large independent agency. Does it even feel like an agency at that point or is the culture and benefits more akin to a large company. I work at a captive agency with $7M book. 3 employees including owner.
I have worked at a captive agency for the past 9 years. I’ve managed to make okay money ($75k with no degree) as basically customer support (commercial account management). I also write new policies but receive no commission. I’m at the point where I’m nearing 30 and feel like I need to either make a total career change or somehow wiggle my way into something on the corporate side like UW or Claims with benefits and more of a long term future.
However besides the corporate route I’ve been seeing some people on here who work for large independents. Are there long term career and benefit options at these places? What are the roles? I’m not opposed to sales but in my past experience it was either generating my own leads in which case I would start my own agency or agents providing not enough leads to really succeed. Are there sales roles with large independents where the leads are referrals and there’s enough of them to reliably eclipse ~$100k? Any insight is appreciated.