Outgoing AA Insurance boss Chris Curtin: insurance is a lifetime passion

Outgoing AA Insurance boss Chris Curtin: insurance is a lifetime passion
Chris Curtin: “You can retire from a job, but you don’t retire from a passion." (Image: Supplied)
Riley Kennedy
All things going to plan, Chris Curtin could have ended up as an Australian journalist.As a boy in his early twenties, living in the Sydney suburb of Manly, he decided to take some time out to surf and then start a career in journalism. But pressure from his parents to get a job meant he ended up in insurance.“I thought I’d do it for 12 months, get my parents off my back and then get into it,” he said.Now, 45 years later, Curtin is less than two months away from retiring as AA Insurance's chief executive – a job...

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