No, your theory about me trying to cover up those other agencies is wrong and unfair. How do you learn a new career? By trying and failing and then trying some more and then failing and then finally succeeding. I am simply learning how to be a good agent.
A good friend of mine hopes to become a literary agent. Here's how she's gone about it.
She took English Literature A level, along with history, politics and French, worked really hard, and got good grades.
She then got herself into a very well-respected university and took an English Literature degree. She worked really hard, and graduated with a great degree.
Two years before she graduated she started looking for an internship in publishing, and started networking as much as was possible for her while she was studying. She met lots of publishing people and through them, found an intern position with a good literary agent. She worked her intern period, and did so well during that time that she was asked to stay on for longer. She went without a holiday that summer, in order to keep working at the agency.
She did freelance work for that agency throughout her final year at university. A week before her final dissertation was due she was asked if she would return to the agency because they'd been let down by someone else: so for a week she was working full-time and finishing her dissertation in the evening and at night. Luckily she was well-prepared and had already done a lot of the work required for her dissertation.
She filled in for a couple of weeks at the agency, and then was offered a very junior position there. Which she was thrilled to take.
She's still there, a couple of years later. She's still not representing anyone. But she has learned a lot about contracts, rights and royalties; she's developing contacts and relationships in publishing; and she's learning a lot about how the business works, and who wants what.
It seems like a much more reliable plan than yours, and while she's learning she's not risking the works of writers in order to further her career.