OMG, I think I want to be a cat adjuster when I grow up.
“The money is tremendous at catastrophe time…Some adjusters can make up to $300,000 in six months — but they work long hours and then can go through some serious dry spells.
“What’s left after taxes and expenses are paid out, you’ve got to live on…and wait for the next bad day.”
I’m not certain how I came up with this story and even less certain how the story of cat adjustors from Columbia, South Caroline made its way to a North Carolina newspaper, the Winston Salem Journal – but absolutely certain it’s interesting.
…”It’s going to be a busy year. No question about that,” [Barry] Schoch said as he waited to hear whether he would be surveying Hurricane Gustav claims along the Gulf Coast or staying near his Murrells Inlet home waiting for Tropical Storm Hanna work. As it turned out, Hurricane Ike had him on standby: “You might as well wait for it to hit before you come down,” he was told by one company for which he works.
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