For some, a job in insurance is a
starting point that can open the doors to other opportunities. Here are eight
celebrities who worked in the insurance industry before making it big outside
our industry.
- Mark Burnett is best known as the producer of Survivor and the creator of
the Apprentice. But before becoming a TV producer, Burnett worked in an
insurance firm for two years and left it
for a weekend job selling tee shirts.
- Charles Ives, who was one of the first American composers to achieve international fame, had a prosperous career as the director of a successful insurance agency in the early 1900s.
- Charles Lane, who appeared in hundreds of films and television shows including It's a Wonderful Life and I Love Lucy, started out as an insurance salesman.
- Wallace Stevens, who was an American Modernist poet, spent most of his life working as an executive for The Hartford.
- Anne Rice, who was a best selling author of novels like Interview with the Vampire, worked as an insurance claims processor.
- Bruce Jenner, who won the gold medal for the decathlon in the Montreal 1976
Summer Olympics, sold insurance to support himsel
f while training for the Olympics.
- Tom Clancy, who is best known for his military thriller novels, was the owner of the O.F. Bowen Agency.
- Colonel Sanders, who was famous for developing his secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices for the Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food chain, had worked as insurance salesman.
