Sales at State Farm - moving and need advice
Hi all,
I currently work as a team member at State Farm and have been for a little over a year. I love my agent, we top 3 in our territory for fire, auto & life. I never worked in insurance or sales before starting with her. Our office works mostly off of internet leads and I write anywhere from 30k-60k in premium a month for p&c and 3-5 life apps.
I recently have moved around an hour away from my old house. The commute now is driving me nuts, it’s over an hour in traffic and I cannot realistically do this long term. I did talk to her and she is not willing to budge on working from home whatsoever, even a day or 2. I also have 2 toddlers in daycare close to my new home.I was planning on calling State Farm offices around my new city this month and start considering other options. There are 3 in the area and at least 10 within 30 minutes of my new home.
My agent just came back from Vegas and basically shook our office pretty heavily. She said State Farm’s are going to be closing left and right, commission will be changing, shit is basically going to be hitting the fan. Now here’s the thing, is this a not good time to be looking for new positions? I know our office will be okay but she made it seem like State Farm’s goal is to basically erase the agent model and that very little State Farm’s are going to be able to function moving forward. Do I hold off on looking for a different office? I know long term there’s absolutely no way I can function working an hour away, it is just a matter of when I start looking.
Should I completely stray away from State Farm? There are a few Allstate, Farmers, 1 AmFam & AAA just in my city. I have only been in this industry for about a year. I honestly do love what I do now, I don’t want to screw over my agent, she has been great to me I just cannot spend 2.5 hours of my day everyday in traffic. If I do stay with State Farm, how do I approach this without pissing her off. I am assuming my new agent is going to call her if I do get potentially hired. Any advice is highly appreciated, thank you.