where we are replacing the job functions of full time, salaried with benefits and perks as companies cinch their belts and reduce their human capital.
Over the years, as a notary I've worked as:
Foreclosure auctioneer (2008 to 2012). My replacement took over making 1/3 of what I made, and he was not a notary or ever worked in the industry.
Collection Agent: Serving people letters if they got behind in car, motor cycle, RV, boat or Cessna payments. I even had a $10K super duper computerized sewing machine.
Debt Resolution Agent: I abhor these products. Taking advantage of people who are soon to become insolvent with even more debt.
Structured Settlements: I won't do these either, grossly imbalanced for people.
I wish that people who become notaries/NSA would stand strong and not allow themselves to get sucked up in services that we have no business doing. Our commissions are our own, yet there is a trend to water down our fees, offering us work that we would normally and historically name and get fair fees, as the pie shrinks with more people taking pieces of our fees. Things are changing. Lack of work, the hoards of new notaries flooding the market in hopes of making $ix figure$ isn't helping us at all. With the way the market is currently, and it will only worsen, I think a lot of these new NSAs will realize they were sold a bill of goods, not good info. Some of these training classes are costing up to $500.
Is this data collection even something we should be doing as notaries? |
