Andy DehnartTom Westman, who won Survivor Palau two years ago, is now an insurance salesperson.
He was a New York City firefighter, and left that shortly after the show aired to become a motivational speaker. Now, he sells “group life and disability insurance to brokers, who mostly don’t know — or care — that he skewered a shark with a machete to feed his starving ‘Survivor’ tribe on the Pacific island of Palau,” The Hartford Courant reports.
“I always did feel that there was something else out there. I had a nagging sense that something had missed me, and corporate America is something I wanted to be part of,” Tom said, marking the first time ever someone sincerely said “something else out there” was in fact working for corporate America. Now he works for “The Hartford Financial Services Group and takes the 5:44 a.m. train in from Sayville on Long Island, where he lives with his wife,” every morning.
He says the $1 million became $540,000 after taxes, and it “paid for three college educations [for his kids] with 39 days of work. That’s a dream opportunity.”