Want to work @ EDJ

jtp - I believe Nathan can get a bonus for referring you - just FYI

Otherwise 2 years in retail sales doesn't mean crap. All it means is that you are not completely inept, socially at least. Selling up charges on people's cars is nothing. Most people are idiots when it comes to cars and probably don't realize you are selling them. Spending $200 on a car that you need to get to work, is different than $200k IRA.

Now all that is to say you can make it no matter what your background. This job is simple in what you need to do (find clients) but difficult to do it (more many reasons).

Working in the parts department of a car dealership, and thinking that gives you enough experience to be a FA is like saying because you've got a boating licence you can fly a 747. You think you "hustle" while sitting behind a desk where customers come to you? You're in for a rude awakening IF you ever get an FA job. Only piece of advice I can give is read every piece of financial news you can get your hands on to sound somewhat competent on the subject. 

jtp wrote: I have been in retail sales for 2 years and have been successful for that world. Now I've maxed out my bonus structure and want to go to the next level. I've been pretty obsessed with my own financial planning since I started pulling halfway respectable money so an FA job seemed interesting. I figure Ill have a better shot at a job at EDJ as they supposedly like career changers and I've always done well in hustle-your-ass-off jobs/cultures. Nice forum, you're all assholes and it makes for great reading.

Not big in MINT. I was on Santander when they were 6 something a share. Where were you at bro?

I think there's an unwritten rule somewhere that if you end a question with "bro", you are a douche bag.

Only a genuine douche bag who sells things for a living can truly enjoy a thread like this.

Sportsfreak wrote: Hey, give the guy a break, we all have to start somewhere. Fuck, i sold fabric, for Gods sake,  for 25 years before i came into this business.

I know. Just bustin chops. I have buddies successful at EJ that had some similar backgrounds.

Sportsfreak wrote: Hey, give the guy a break, we all have to start somewhere. Fuck, i sold fabric, for Gods sake,  for 25 years before i came into this business.

How was it working for the East India Company?

SometimesNowhere wrote: Sportsfreak wrote: Hey, give the guy a break, we all have to start somewhere. Fuck, i sold fabric, for Gods sake,  for 25 years before i came into this business.  How was it working for the East India Company?

Do you still have a stash of some top shelf indigo dye?

I see openings at indy firms if I completed CFP course work. Are there benefits to that approach vs. Jones? I'm sure you'll all keep in mind my non-all star resume.

I've assumed I wouldn't be hired at a wirehouse even if newrr's epic story was so beautiful it made me want to simultaeneously cry and rub one out.