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My Background as a Health Insurance Broker

My name is Tim Thompson and I am the owner of SPF Insurance Services . Let's start at the beginning, and I'll tell you how I got to this point. At the age of 15, I was diagnosed as a Type 1 Diabetic, and that fact became the focus of much of my life. I graduated from Colorado State University in 1983 as an Electrical Engineer and went to work in the Semiconductor industry. I loved my jobs and being able to learn new information every day. The electronics industry was undergoing tremendous growth during my early career, and as an engineer and then a marketing director I was given stock options in the two startup companies I worked with. After completing a 4 year period with the 2nd startup company, I was burned out from traveling the globe. I had spent 70% of my time away from home for work, and I knew that we had enough assets from the stock options I earned during the 19 years I worked in the high-tech industry, so I decided to "retire." Because of my diabe...