Essay: - Write about the biggest risk you have taken

Essay: - Write about the biggest risk you have taken
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Risks can be many in the life. It depends upon perception of the person as to which of those one considers to the biggest. However in this essay I shall narrate a story about a risk that I took and I consider it to be the biggest.

I am a retired Manager from oil and gas sector, cross country pipelines. I am an Electrical Engineer and worked all through my service career in operation and maintenance of cross country pipelines. I had no experience in the Insurance sector any way.

One fine day I received a letter from a renowned Life Insurance Company requesting me to meet them and work for them as an Insurance Adviser. Accordingly I met them and explained that I had no knowledge or experience in this field. Hence I have no confidence of delivering desired goods to them. Upon this I was offered free training for the Life Insurance Adviser after which I could appear in the online examination conducted by the Insurance Authority and start working on commission basis.

After giving some thought, I agreed and joined the company. I underwent training for Life Insurance Products and appeared at the examination. To my utter surprise I passed out with 80% marks. Shortly I received my Advisory License and started working. Within a short period I sold good lot of policies, earned good commission and developed many good contacts. As a token of appreciation of my good work company honored me with gold coins from time to time.

In conclusion, because of taking this big risk and working in this company I gained experience of Finance sector and acquired further qualifications as Adviser for Non Life Products and Mutual Funds too. The good old quote also confirms that “No Risk No Gain”.......

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