. . . making this job look so darn easy. Everybody wants to do what we do! We show up at their house with a pile of papers, the signing takes roughly 30 minutes, they saw a line item on their CD with the words "Notary Fee $195.00" and now they are racking their brains trying to figure out how much money we are making . . . . $390.00 per hour . . . and now they think that since we make more money than any attorney, dentist, car mechanic, or CEO of Ikea, they all want in on our little gig.
I cannot tell you how many times a week I get someone . . . a borrower, a neighbor, the teller at the bank, asking me how they can get in on this. My neighbor told me she is just going to go out and get her real estate license and start doing what I do. Yes I may make this profession look like a piece of cake and something everyone and their mother wants to cash in on, but they don't even know the half of it. Most of them can't even remember to sign with the middle initial after being told 16 times throughout the course of the signing, but they want to do what I do.
Here is where I could start telling you everything we as Notary Signing Agents go through in order to get that one loan closed . . . the time involved, the expenses, the telephone calls, the invoicing, the hopes that we will even get paid for our work . . . but you already know what we go through . . . you go through it each and every day as well . . . and with ease I might add . . . otherwise people wouldn't be trying to bang down the doors to get in on this.
So I guess what I am trying to say is . . . we really need to stop making this job look so easy. My response when people try to grill me about how they can do what I do . . . I just smile and very politely say something like it's really hard to get into, or it's not all it's cracked up to be, or I work 14-16 hours a day making this work, or there are a lot of expenses like equipment, ink, and paper. That usually makes them turn their nose up on our profession. By the time I am finished with my little speech, they have no intention of ever trying to do this job. |
