Unsure if you'd make it as a Self-Employed Agent?  Practice whilst at your employer to find out.

'Self Gen' is the buzzword in Estate Agency branches these days with instruction numbers wafer thin.

Even the 'big boy' marketeers like Purple Bricks are turning their marketing mix upside down and instructing agents to self-generate new business by way of door knocking, social media and local networking to beef up the number of valuations in the diaries.

These are the tools of being a 'Self Employed Agent.'

So if you can successfully obtain new business for your employer from 'Self Gen' as an 'Employed Agent' you can be pretty confident of success if you chose to set up shop on your own.