Sarah Skahan was never going into the insurance industry.
That's what the now-29 year old said when she was young and headed to college to major in English. She was staying out of the family business (her father owns the agency). "I always said, 'No, I'm going to do my own thing.'"
These days, Skahan, assistant agency manager at Newberry Insurance Group in South Windsor, Connecticut, has no doubts about her choice to join her father's agency. Having graduated from Kennesaw State University in 2010, Skahan saw few options in front of her. "I was in the South, and there weren't a ton of jobs. I was frustrated with what was available. Plus, I had all this student loan debt, and I really needed to start working."
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