Leading Local: Q&A with State Farm agent Rene ChavezFor Rene Chavez, serving customers means continuing to show up long after the policy is signedAt 19, Rene Chavez spotted a brochure for a State Farm agency and decided that would be his dream job. You knew pretty early you wanted to be an insurance agent. When I was 19 years old, I saw a brochure for a State Farm agent and thought, “You know what? Her uncle has two State Farm offices, another cousin has two offices, and they started telling me, “Why don’t you try to become a State Farm agent?” When my dad passed away in 2018, we didn’t have life insurance, so we had to scramble to pay for his funeral.