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Don't concern yourselves with a response to my question about training schools. I have read some of the posts and the answer is what I assumed. The carrier's typically want someone with a degree, which I don't have. It is unfortunate that real life experiences don't equate into tangible assets to companies. I will just continue to pursue an entry level position somewhere and hope someone will at least give me an interview. Thanks for the help people.

marcab

Keep trying, but you will have to wait until a cat 4 or 5 hits the US coast line. Thousands of IA.s out of work. It all is WOW. Waiting on weather.

You are correct Vale is the only school that I know that insurance companies send send their new staff adjusters.

I know a young man who did not know anything about auto's and started working on weekends part time learning how to estimate auto,s damage at a very busy collision center on commish. To make a long story shorter he is now the SERVICE manager for a large auto dealership in San Antonio, being promoted from Houston. I guess I could say the same thing about Kirk Ebrels and Walter Pilot who climbed a little higher on the ladder.

Just talked to one of my mentees who finish 9 months in Atlanta for Renfro/State Farm. Talked to another who has worked 8 months for Pilot/ Allstate and waiting for the right one before going out again. Nothing new seems 10% get all the work they need and then you have the other 90%

and the people who have never worked a catastrophe claim are not in this 90% bracket. But don,t give up if this is what you want to do, but it,s not really that good of a job. We all remember when we had that real guilty feeling when we went to the airport and picked up our wife and took her out to dinner and the afternoon of the super bowl that we could not watch, because we had too much work to do and so on and so forth. And what we remember most is the 3rd day we get back from the storm and the phone does not ring that day or for months.