I know I'm going to get into some trouble for this, but here it is:
I had written Getting Rid of "Full Time/Part Time" Labels.... back in January as a reflective piece on how I was not going to allow the label of part time to hinder my success as a real estate agent.
Today, I went into my local realtor board's office to make payment on my dues and got a whole new perspective on the subject.
I was, of course, talking up AR with Anne, the member services person and had mentioned my post on the topic of part-timers, as I had wanted to join a committee, but because of my day job, could not commit to the time frame that most committees meet.
Know what she told me? "An agent asked me one time if there were prorated dues for part-timers. I told them, there's no such thing - you pay the full amount of the dues. You're either a Realtor, or you're not."
That made so much sense, I told her that she had just given me another topic to write about on my AR blog (well, here it is!).
She's absolutely right. We pay our MLS fees, our license fees, and our board fees in full, so why should we be considered "part time"? Because we don't sit in the office everyday? Because we are not "on call" 12 hours a day? Because we are not reading about the current market every other minute? Because we are not cold calling prospects 8 hours a day?
Absurd, I say.
Don't call me a "part-timer" anymore, I say. I'm a Realtor, period.
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