What would I be doing as an agent for New York Life if I get the job?

car253 gave the simplistically correct answer; you'll be selling insurance. Unlike her and most mere insurance agents, however, your job at NYL will be MUCH more substantial. New York Life is one of the top tier financial organizations. They don't produce insurance agents; they produce top-line financial advisors. Sure, you'll start your career peddling insurance, but from day one you'll be enrolled in a hardcore, amazingly fast-paced financial planning training program. Within a year, if you're one of the three percent who survive, you won't be a salesperson; you'll be a financial professional. Your job will be the same as a physician's: You'll examine patients, diagnose illness, prescribe cures, and design wellness programs; you'll just be doing it in the financial realm instead of the medical. People will be relying on you for their very lives. Best wishes!

BTW, it isn't being big that makes a financial company reputable; it's professionalism. If you work for a company that specializes in P&C products, the emphasis is just sales. Don't take that bait.

Likely cold calling selling insurance policies from your description.

But, since you have loss mitigation experience they may also be interested hiring you in their claims adjusting area.

Good luck!

Sellling insurance. That is what you would be doing. Commission only.

You sell insurance. If you sell you get paid, if you don't, you don't.