[dmpyron]

I used to say that teaching scuba in the tropics was a fun way to slowly starve to death. Being a travel agent is much the same way. I'm home based and it took me a while to build a cliental. My first commission check came about 7 months after I started, for a 6 night stay at a Courtyard by Marriott. Since then I've been doing a pretty good job selling cruises and Disney. I'm starting to see some demand for the Med for next year, lots of it on Celebrity. Also river cruising.

Your first year will be hard and poor. Working at a brick&mortar agency is hard for me to predict. I didn't go that route, based on an agent who had worked at one for 12 years before going home based.

OTOH, I sold a couple a Disney package. 7 nights at the GF in a concierge suite, 7 nights on a DCL Western in a cat 6 and then an Eastern in the same cabin. Got those checks last month. Cruise was in April.

Lots of work. You'll make roughly 12% on average, so that means you need to sell $200,000 to make $24K. At an average $1000 per cabin, that's 200 cabins a year. Doable, sell some groups.