What Does A Life Insurance Agent Do? 
A life insurance agent sells life insurance . Their job is a combination of marketer , school teacher , and entertainer . You spend most of your time looking for people who want to talk about insuring your family . Then you spend a much smaller amount of time teaching the person how everything actually works and what their options are . Then after all that you spend the next week trying to convince the insurance company to accept the applicant and that they are n't already one foot in the grave . 