Well it turns out to make practical use of a CFP(R) designation, which I have yet to earn because I have not performed 6000 hours (that's 3 years for you non-lawyers) of work to meet the experience requirement. And many people in the NYC area give this product away to earn money by selling products or managing money, which was certainly not my intention when I started this process.
But reality is what it is, something politicians should ponder once in a while.
Anyway, back to my sorry saga. My CFP mentors both recommended that I get my insurance licenses. But you can only do that if you are sponsored by an insurance company. So I posted by stripped down resume on-line and low and behold 2 insurance companies contacted me for sales positions. I went with the one that I thought offered me the best path to achieving my goal and past the insurance exams, so I am now licensed. As for the sales part and making a little money, it turns out this insurance company hires agents like rabbits breed. And they have a significant established base of clients from past agents. And many of the non-clients have already been approached by other agents who are part of the rabbit colony representing this insurance company. And this company likes to send people out into the field while they are being trained but are inadequately trained. That is my current predicament.
I am now pondering Plan C (or is it Plan D, E or F?) I have lost track. How can I help people and make a little money at the same time?
But that saga is not what motivated me to start writing this blog today.
It was the news that someone with legal authority is investigating Hillary's use of the personal server. I have no idea what rights an ex-President and 1st Lady have under the law that might create a different situation for Hillary, but as one who always separated work from personal, for both email and cell phones, I don't understand why she did what she did. But here is the bright thought for anyone who does not want to see a Clinton-Bush III campaign. Hillary finally realizes she is sufficiently toxic in certain key states (we will see how those polls develop) that she is not a viable candidate and that opens the door to a "Draft Joe Biden" campaign. One can only hope.
Meanwhile, Marco Rubio has gone off the deep end of logic. If you disavow a treaty by your predecessor, doesn't that hamstring you in your future ability to conduct foreign policy if your successor can undo what you did? Government is of the people and the country, and each administration has to work incrementally upon what previous administrations and Congresses have done. This is why the Radical Tea Party is so unpopular in the Blue States. They do not believe that and I am truly worried if they somehow win the Presidency.
And meanwhile, random gun violence that the NRA refuses to acknowledge justify some sensible gun control continues and, since it usually occurs in states that are firmly in the NRA's grasp, it demonstrates that bad sh*t happens even when everyone in the theater is potentially carrying a gun. In this case, the shooter apparently shot himself with the last bullet. We will see why he wanted to kill innocents before he committed suicide.
The GOP is so hyped up about Jihad and they ignore domestic terrorism in their rhetoric. I don't mean to minimize anarchism, it is a real problem and threat and I am glad that Turkey is finally doing something about ISIS. There is no other country that can stop them because all the flow of $ to ISIS comes through Turkey. And Turkey is the ultimate bulwark against Iran. And Turkey is anything but a steady ally these days. So we should support the Kurd's.
And on the one year anniversary of Russia shooting down the Malaysian Air jumbo jet, let us remember that President Putin promotes terrorist policies just as other sh*tty countries do. Unfortunately, Russia is a country we must use diplomacy with because a war is an unthinkable nuclear holocaust that I thought we were done with the risk of after 45 years of cold war. Another thing the GOP candidates should remember.
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