Ozarks Profile: Jim Bolin

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What is your job?|ret||ret||tab|

General sales manager, Carol Jones, Realtors.|ret||ret||tab|

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Tell us about your organization.|ret||ret||tab|

Carol Jones, Realtors, was founded by Carol Jones with five agents in 1983. Jones sold the company to Iowa Realty in 1993. Carol Jones, Realtors, is now the largest real estate firm in the area with 375 agents working out of nine offices in Springfield, Nixa, Ozark, Mount Vernon, Branson West, Seymour and Branson.|ret||ret||tab|

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What is your educational background?|ret||ret||tab|

Bolin has a bachelor of science in education in English from Southeast Missouri State University-Cape Girardeau.|ret||ret||tab|

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What jobs led you to your current one?|ret||ret||tab|

After college, Bolin taught school and coached for 10 years in Steelville, Aurora and Branson. "Teaching school is like selling ... you're selling ideas to kids hoping that they accept them," he said. He then began a career in restaurant management at Adam's Rib in Branson, where he stayed until 1996. Bolin began working part-time as an agent for ReMax in Branson in 1994, then went full-time when Adam's Rib burned down two years later. Bolin joined Carol Jones at the Highland Springs office in 1998 as an agent. |ret||ret||tab|

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What is the best part of your job?|ret||ret||tab|

"Training agents and seeing the results of that training, and watching the company grow are the most rewarding aspects of the job."|ret||ret||tab|

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If you had to choose another career, what would it be?|ret||ret||tab|

Bolin, who is now on his third career, said he thinks being a librarian would be a nice, quiet job after the high-pressure careers of restaurant management and real estate.|ret||ret||tab|

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Give us some personal information.|ret||ret||tab|

Bolin, one of a family of 12 children from Steele, a small town in the Bootheel, is 45 and is married to Chris, a Carol Jones agent. They have two daughters, Kelsey, 16 and Abby, 12. Bolin said he enjoys the outdoors, reading and watching his daughters' softball and basketball games and swim meets. |ret||ret||tab|

by Melissa Wilson |ret||ret||tab|

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