When I was growing up, there was a guy I’d see around the neighborhood who always seemed like he had a lot of money. He drove a nice car and lived in a nice house. I found out that he was an electrician and that sounded like a good deal to me. I was looking for a way to have an extraordinary life, so I learned the trade at age 18 and started what I thought would be my career.
By the time I was 26, I was in the union at my company, I had a very good job – great pay, excellent benefits, a pension plan, everything. One day on the job, I overheard some guys talking about investments. I already knew how money worked because of my parents. They had taught me the value of a dollar and about working hard and doing whatever it took to provide for your family, no matter what other people thought of the kind of job you had.
Anyway, I was interested in starting an investment strategy and one of the guys turned out to be a Primerica rep. So I invited him over to talk to me about what Primerica could do for me.
At the time, they told me about Primerica’s business opportunity but I had a great job, so I didn’t even think about it. But then, a couple of months later, I decided to go ahead and go to a business overview just to see what the business was all about. I was so impressed that I signed up right away.
For the first few months, I did Primerica part?time while I worked full time as an electrician. I was nearing 10 years in the union, which would have qualified me for a pension. But I saw something in Primerica that I never saw in corporate America. I saw a real chance for freedom. In the corporate world, if you work hard, if you’re honest, if you’re a good person, you get nothing in return.
At Primerica, those qualities mean something. They allow you to have control over your life and your future. Working for yourself is the greatest opportunity in the world. You never have to answer to a boss and your income is dependent on your activity and your passion for helping people – not on what someone else says you’re worth.
When I first joined, the last thing I wanted was another job. That’s why the Primerica opportunity is so incredible! This business is what you make of it – not what someone else dictates. You don’t earn a fixed salary, rather, you have the opportunity to earn an unlimited income, based entirely on your own efforts, your own drive and your own passion. I realized right away that Primerica was my chance to create the kind of freedom and the kind of lasting legacy for my family that I always knew I wanted.
And it’s not just me and my family. The Primerica Opportunity has helped hundreds of thousands of other people change their lives forever. It doesn’t matter what anyone may have heard about this business. When people tell me they have concerns, I just show them how my life has changed!
I think people are always going to say negative things when they don’t understand how a system works or understand what it is a company does. I’ve never let negative things like that bother me. I’ve been in this business 15 years. When I was a kid, I never thought I’d be making the kind of money I’m making now or having the kind of impact on others that I’m able to have because of Primerica.
Today, my wife, Kimberly, and I are living our dream life with our daughter. We make an incredible income – with unlimited potential to earn even more. But it’s not really so much about the money as it is Primerica has enabled us to become better people. We’ve improved ourselves – and we’ve been able to help so many families along the way – and that’s the bigger reward.
Because of Primerica, we’ve been able to relocate ourselves and our business from New Jersey to our dream house in San Diego, CA. Our daughter is growing up in an environment where she never has to worry about money. She’s learning that she doesn’t have to work for someone else to be successful.
We’ve been very blessed … and I’m so glad I believed in myself enough to leave what conventional wisdom called a ‘good job’ and build something incredible for myself and my family!
- Tommy Lee
Primerica Representative