You want to work in this industry?

Answer your phone  and I don't care where I am I answer my phone except when watching a movie in a movie theater and then I put it on vibrate with blue tooth in my ear so I can get to the lobby and talk.
I bet I answer my phone 98% of the time.  It is one of my key ways to receiving an assignment. This policy of mine hasn't changed since 2002 when I became a CA Notary/Loan-Signer.

 I was teaching a notary class today in CA (Pasadena) and it killed me to turn off the phone during the 6 hour class. I turned the cell on at lunch and got a call and missed 2 others. Those 2 assignments were gone with the wind.

You will miss assignments if you don't answer your phone particularly, when you do a day time signing because that is when most signing and title/etc companies call. Don't stay on the phone for more than 1 minute and don't answer a 2nd phone.

Don't answer your phone if it is your family/friends unless it is a dire emergency.  Your phone at a loan signing is not to be answered to settle a fight between your kids. Hang up on the kids immediately!

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