I suppose it will never end, it's simply engrained in American salesmanship culture. I've just been reading the still never-ending supply of blogs and postings that are chock-full of self praise for the writer, and loathing for other agents that are leaving the business. It's sort of a "Hey, wait, you gotta stick it out and suffer along with us" mentality. They seem to find it audacious that many agents would actually come into a business when it's good, and step out when it's bad! Now let's think about how absurd that is. If you had money in the stock (5 comments)