Leaving a job as lawyer for State Farm Insurance would be unthinkable. For most people anyway. Fortunately for us, Rex Havens side-hustled as a comedian on weekends and nights for seven years until he was ready to make the jump. He started comedy late in life (mid-thirties). That jump was over two decades ago and he is still going strong.
I first met Rex when we worked at “Coo’s Coo’s Lounge” at a Bowling Alley in Cartersville, IL. Yes, we had arrived! Wow, looking back neither of us should have been there. The show was good and I learned that you could really work clean in ANY environment.
Today I catch up with Rex to see what he is up to, what he has learned, and where he is headed in his comedy career.
Specifically, we talk about:
- The value in working a little extra hard on your act
- Graduating with a law degree and an M.B.A.
- His years as a college professor
- The State Farm years (12 of them)
- Hanging around the corporate job long enough to get his kids in college
- Making marriage last while traveling
- “Birthing” a new CD
- Developing a one man theatre show
- 3 things that happen when you laugh
To learn more about Rex Havens just visit www.RexHavens.com or www.LearnedFromMyWife.com.
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