{"id":3116,"date":"2011-09-09T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/09\/working-for-aflac.html"},"modified":"2011-09-09T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T17:44:00","slug":"working-for-aflac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/09\/working-for-aflac.html","title":{"rendered":"Working for Aflac"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Is a busy proposition.\u00a0 I have no doubt it can be a rewarding career, as most who have been there for more than a half dozen years or so love it, make tons of money, and seem happy.\u00a0 The trick is, making it a half dozen years.\u00a0 To do that, one has to accept the more or less Darwinian approach that new agents must endure.\u00a0 An approach that more or less treats one like a sea turtle: you\u2019re born, now make it to the ocean, try not to get killed, and survive.\u00a0 Because of that, my days, nights, and many weekends have been spent trying to keep up.\u00a0 The fruits have yet to materialize, and I know I can\u2019t go on forever pouring out thousands of hours and hundreds of dollars in expenses.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m ever optimistic.\u00a0 It is a good company, has good products that do what they say, and it does take care of its employees (those who survive).\u00a0 So I\u2019m still going to be swinging that bat and hoping for some home runs.\u00a0 As a result, posts will come in bursts, and then pass for many moons.\u00a0 In the meantime, enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/technology-blog\/nasa-cassini-orbiter-snaps-unbelievable-picture-saturn-144133480.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this<\/a>\u00a0awesome, and I mean even more awesome than beanie-weenies awesome, picture of Saturn.\u00a0 So beautiful it almost looks fake, and almost perfect enough to make you think someone may have planned it all (enjoy those on the comments box who were able to take this and make it a debate between the religion of God and the religion of the atheist\u2019s intellect). .\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a busy proposition.\u00a0 I have no doubt it can be a rewarding career, as most who have been there for more than a half dozen years or so love it, make tons of money, and seem happy.\u00a0 The trick is, making it a half dozen years.\u00a0 To do that, one has to accept the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Working for Aflac<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Is a busy proposition.&nbsp; 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