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Northwestern Mutual

I have worked in quite a few industries with different employers and have never felt compelled to write a review until I worked for this place.

Let me start by saying that most people here are friendly, supportive, knowledgeable, and motivating.  There are real talented people that do want to see you succeed in this tough industry. NMs products and services are some of the best on the market and has the backing of the history and brand. The mentors are hit or miss, but certainly have the experience and expertise that can help you succeed. You can hit it big with this job, the 20hr work week making well into the six figures if you put in the work for 3-5 years. The long road to that destination though is highly unlikely...

I will continue with that this job is not at all what it is talked up to be. The onboarding was long, dull, and repetitive. It took me two months to interview, study, and get the required licensing to start. Then you have to submit the "project 200" worksheet. Which consists of all your friends, family, neighbors, acquittances, and basically everyone you ever met in your life, names and phone numbers. This was the big red flag I missed early on, because this random paper will be the main determining factor for your success at this place. You then get to sit through a three week training cohort that could be shortened to three days and be just as effective. You do this to learn product info, sales language, phoning, and scripts that sound like they were written by a robot mimicking a human. Did I mention this is all unpaid?

After FPA, you are thrown to the sharks and it becomes sink or swim immediately.  You are given no direction, guidance, or avenues to pursue except your project 200 leads which is your family and friends. You will then pester them for any meetings and business so you can finally eat what you kill. You will be lucky if you can build up some momentum in the first month because you are going to burn through your warm market rather quickly. You then learn that NM does not provide any leads in a industry that requires consistent activity to maintain any sort of success. You will then be told to find ways to cold call anybody and everybody in a target market you wish to pursue, thats right, smile and dial! Because that is going to be your life for how long you can tolerate it from sun up to sun down. Eventually you will dial 2,000 people and be lucky to get 20 appointments, half of which wont show up, and maybe you will get a client or two from it all. You will then circle back around and try and rope in your warm market again, only to run out of steam, and eventually get fed-up and quit after a few months of next to no income. Did you catch all that? Because they just set you up for failure without you even realizing it. Only a few people figure it out in their final few weeks at this place.

This needs to be said, you are NOT a business owner, financial advisor, a fiduciary,  or even a financial planner. You are an insurance salesman period. There is nothing wrong with selling insurance. However, you have no room to be a business man or run much of anything here without their say and approval. You will meet their absurd quotas and activity or risk getting the axe at any point. The silent part is, they expect you to fail, that is why the management choose not to invest to much time and energy into you, until you prove you can sell insurance and produce for them. You legally cannot call yourself an advisor until you acquire your series 6,7, and 63, and SIE licenses . Dont worry though, because most likely you will leave long before they give you the green light to obtain them. 

In the meantime you must do joint-work with a mentor who is the real licensed advisor in all your meetings. You just get to awkwardly sit and watch in the corner while the mentor does all the heavy lifting advising your friends and family. The commission is split 50/50 with the mentor who is already making well into the six figures while you get to eat crumbs and make peanuts. Toward the end, I felt like a useful idiot who did all the legwork and scheduling for them to take half of my clients anticipating me leaving eventually so they could make renewal commissions and role over investments etc. Fun fact, as a new unlicensed rep, you are forbidden from talking about investments until you obtain those licenses I mentioned. If you dont setup a brokerage on the side in due time, you will leave a lot of money on the table. If you want to live like a 1980s cut throat salesman, working with an outdated business model that should be scraped, this job is for you.

Look, if you are the type of person who is entrepreneurial, can network, can cold call, a hustler, can handle stress, is a grifter, or a people person, then this is the career for you then. If you dont know affluent people or have a large warm market (200-400)  of people, then dont even bother. Your warm market determines your success and if you dont want to sell to friends and family, you WILL fail. If you dont have at least 6 months to 1 year of savings squirreled away prior to starting, you WILL fail. If you dont know high earners or have wealthy parents or network, you WILL fail. The most successful advisors at NM are people who were in high earning fields prior to joining, or came from well off families, and it shows. They have an abysmal attrition rate for all new reps under a year. Only 5% of new hires stay past the first year and roughly 10% of those reps make it to year 3. This place is a meat grinder, that is why they hire groups at a time throwing them against a wall to see who sticks. The most insulting part is the director himself told me they dont hire large groups to throw at the wall. The Director and upper management will lie to you, so dont believe everything they say. You are not special if they reach out to you and recruit you. Those "tests" you took onboarding were to determine your warm market and see if you are comfortable approaching them. Most second year advisors I met were one tier above broke themselves. NM also charges you for everything you need to work on your second year ( Office space, laptop, assistant, tools, etc.) You will not see any fruits of your labor for about 30-90 days with any client  until they are approved. 100% commission was the most important red flag I missed. I thought this gig would go smooth with some speedbumps but I underestimated it greatly.

To conclude. I only survived 5 months from hiring to leaving running through the gauntlet. I have never felt so depleted, stressed,  overwhelmed, overworked, and under paid in my entire life. I am glad I did learn some things and got some fulfillment out of this role helping people achieve financial independence. What bothers me the most is that they knew 1 month in that I was not going to make it. But were willing to drag me along anyways and gaslight me the entire way to ring me dry for any remaining names I could submit. It is a racket, setup for all the senior advisers to get a unlimited amount of clients from unsuspecting interns and new reps. NM shows no mercy and eats their own. I feel like I was sold a false bill of goods from the director and the partners, they are liars and prey on anyone who possesses a moderate amount of ambition or wants to change their circumstance. They pick favorites and prefer helping interns over career switchers. I would never recommend this place to my worst enemy. You have been warned...

This is only in regards to the Financial Representative role within Northwestern Mutual. From what I know from regular employees, they are treated well.
   

The recruiting team at NM will convince you that you will be a business owner and have freedom to build the practice you want. This just isn't true, and even if it was, you cannot be mediocre at this job to make a living wage.
   

I joined NM because it fulfilled one of my life goals of business ownership. I was originally drawn to the great positive impact a Financial Professional can have on their community. People need the services offered. I still hold this belief despite my poor experience working there. It turns out, however, that you really don't own any business within NM. The freedom they will pitch to you about this position is mostly a lie. NM Home Office will monitor and have significant oversight into everything you do (you could argue that they should, it just doesn't quite align with what they pitch you when they recruit you detailed below). Your business will not have the flexibility to deviate even a little to accommodate your style, personality, or preferences. You are pigeon-holed into a position to do it their way or fail out. The more unfortunate part of this is that the company adheres to an 60+ year old and obsolete method of client acquisition. The company is very slow to change, and even falls behind on technology, information security (don't worry not on the client side, their system for client confidentiality and information security there is probably the most robust in the industry), and most certainly client service.
   

It's not to say their method doesn't work, it does. It only that it works best for NM corporate and a very specific type of person (think stereotypical used car salesman type individual, at least for the first 5 years of their career). As I slowly realized this would not actually satisfy the three I's they will pitch to you when they recruit you, Independence, Income, and Impact, I began looking into transitioning my role. Here is where the proof comes that you don't really own anything. I found out that, while you have control over who takes on the actual advising role for your clients, what your clients pay ends up going to NM corporate instead of adding to the new advisor's commissions. This, to me, is absolutely nuts, especially since NM's commission rate is much lower than other places like Mass Mutual, and significantly lower than if you were to do Financial Planning work independently.
   

The training program is very robust. Some other firms even intentionally poach talent from NM because of their advanced training. You are also paid quite well during training which is great for entering any 100% commissions role. The support won't end their either, you will have a mentor and other regular meetings and advisors that will help you along the way. However, since they all subscribe to a rather archaic way of building a business, they will be weak in the following areas. Your mentor and other advisors will likely have no sense on how you can maintain your mental health in a career that is taxing and often lonely. They will frequently suggest to you to just devote more time into your business and get results. Again this may work, but only for certain types of people. I am truly thankful for the support system in the office I worked. They tried and it showed, but they also did not know how to really help me. Here is where the obvious lack of understanding mental health plays in. When someone is anxious or depressed it is a sign that one or more of their needs are not being met, not that they are broken. Simply saying put your head down and participate in the grind doesn't bring people out of this kind of funk. This kind of funk is exactly why most FR's at NM fail. You have to identify the need that isn't being met and come up with a game plan to fulfill it. This might actually be put your head down and work harder, but for most people it isn't the case. Most people will begin to feel a lack of confidence, desperation, and loneliness in this role early on because their needs were all upset by jumping into a 100% commission role. Of course that kind of environment is stressful at first. It would have been better if NM actually acknowledged this instead of blatantly saying luck and grind are the only two factors in your success. It's time for NM to catch up with the times. The support system, while robust, needs to actually be built up beyond just the operational components of the role. It needs to include the psychological needs of new Representatives as well. NM's high turnover rate is likely caused by this sole issue.
   

NM is also behind the times with regards to social media, website, and technology in general. You will have no flexibility in your website and must choose from one of an assortment of terrible templates. NM does use Hearsay Social for social media posts, which was really helpful. However, NM corporate's oversight here makes it near impossible to come up with and post original content, blog, ask for the sale online, redirect them to your website (it actually was pretty difficult to get them to approve any link within these posts), set up online scheduling, and the list goes on. While many of these are less important, having "schedule a meeting" links and an actual system to do so on your website seems like a basic minimum standard that NM does not have and does not even allow. These kinds of things just frustrate the process of you building your own client base. It is not easy to learn about an NM advisor or meet them unless they reach out to you first, often times without you expecting them to. Cold calls will be part of the game unless you have a very large natural market beforehand. I didn't like them, but it is a reality of the position and not really a pro or con for the purposes of this review.
   

It is fair to say that, while it may be a good fit for few, this role was definitely not a fit for me. I was even publicly ridiculed during training for a podcast about finance that I listened too. I should have known then that they only want people exactly like them and aren't actually open to anyone who doesn't subscribe to their archaic business model and ideology (there is some irony here, because the particular podcast that came up was actually more traditional that their philosophy, but I digress). I stuck it out anyway and have nothing to show for it.
   

If you are thinking about becoming a Financial Advisor doing holistic planning services, start with a salaried or wage Assistant Financial Representative Role. If your goal is the own a business in this space, don't start it with NM or any firm quite frankly. While the regulations around this industry are tight creating some uniformity regardless of where you land, you will need to be different than the usual players to stand out and attract clients. The big firms are unable to adapt at an appropriate rate to accommodate technological advances and the very different financial profile of potential clients in the post-covid crisis era.

Working at Northwestern Mutual was bad, it is a company for someone that is experienced and already has a book of business. 

REALLY hard to be successful unless you're at the right environment. 

If you do not possess a "start my own" business mindset, you will NOT be successful. There is NO salary, ONLY commission based and bonus on performance. 

Training is 3 weeks. UNPAID. You have to cover all costs to get to and from the office if you're commuting by mass transit. THEY WILL NOT PAY ANYTHING TO YOU OTHER THAN YOUR BUSINESS THAT YOU BRING IN!!!!

They will make you build a list of 200 names composed of friends, family, ex-coworkers and etc when you come in to train for them. Then they will teach you about their products and services as well as language. Then they will have you dial everyday to set up appointments in what they call "prospecting day weekend" where you will try to tell your friends and family what you do and then they will push you to sell them Life insurance and insurance products.

After you graduate from their training program they expect you to have minimum of 25 appointments PER week. Anything less you will be in danger of being let go. 

This is a opportunity for someone that has a large warm circle and is able to cold call (2-400 dials a day) to build a practice. 

This company wants you to sell LIFE INSURANCE!! It is NOT a financial services company. They tell you they are but they are only an insurance company and offer the most basic mutual funds. Nothing more.

So if you like to be an insurance salesman then this is perfect for you, if not then stay away!

I was in the Farmingdale location. The people were cold, there was not any "real" help. The person dedicated to help me with the submitting of paperwork for policies to the home office, told me to do it on my own and had a nasty attitude at times. VERY unprofessional lady. 

When you start off, the Sr. Advisor will take HALF of your commission because they"helped" you sell. There is nothing you can do unless you do a case completely on your own and ON TOP of them taking half your money, your client they helped you with will ALSO become their client so any future sale you do, they will take half no matter what in the future: PYRAMID SCHEME.

Most of the time, your older advisors are REALLY busy with their own clients that it becomes difficult for you to start bc they cant come to your meetings. Several times i felt disrespected that advisors would cancel on a meeting with a client of ours because they "didn't feel" like it would be a good case and you end up looking terrible to your client. 

They do not care about you and your business, they will help you once it is a big case so you better be able to attract whales as they say.

Lastly, after your first year they will make you pay monthly rent for your office, supplies, computer, marketing material, business cards ,software and anything you use that is theirs. To me that was a HUGE red flag.

You will be meeting with your managing director once a week on Monday and it will be a meeting basically to see how many calls you make and how much business you do. My meetings were terrible and at some point useless. It was all the same, no opportunity to learn and grow.

You are also expected to have 60 meetings minimum a month, or what they call 25 ahead, so every week you need 25 meetings. If you fail, you will be pushed out. They will not care too much for you other than tell you what you need to do to sell insurance. 

Lastly, NO MATTER what your client may need, the Sr Advisor WILL push Life insurance down the clients throat. Beware the people you work with because they will make or break your business.

In essence, i do not agree with the way NWM does business and runs its shop. A lot needs to change. I will recommend you stay away from this place. There are many better companies to work for out there. If you are comfortable with someone taking half your money in the beginning , feeling like a nuisance to senior advisors, having to share all of your early clients forever, like to cold call at least 200 times a day, having to push people to buy life insurance when they don't need it and being a SALESMAN and paying for supplies, marketing material, rent on your office, laptop and etc as well as paying your own when attending conferences of the company then go ahead and work there. 

THAT is the reality of working at NWM. Don't be deceived at the job interviews. They will not tell you half of this stuff until you realize how bad the business structure is 1 month in.

I worked for NM for years, and I can't think of a more admired or stable financial company, or one with more integrity - in fact, no matter what happens for me professionally, I won't move my investments from NM and will NEVER move or cancel my life insurance. The conviction the workforce has around NM's products is exceptional, because the products themselves are exceptional, and this conviction elevates those who work there. There's definitely a sense of belonging to a mission for good when you work here. This sense of belonging helps create closeness among those in the same offices and agencies, which is wonderful - I felt a tremendous amount of affection and respect for my colleagues, and the quality of my life has been enhanced by their friendships.

That said, as a team member - NOT as a financial rep; I can't speak to that - there are some drawbacks:

- There's a lot of gender stratification in terms of the roles. While this isn't the case 100% of the time, the men tend to be the sales reps and the lead advisors, and women comprise most of the support staff. From the outside looking in, this is anachronistic; from the inside looking out, while you get used to it, it's can be demoralizing. There are efforts to recruit and maintain more women, and there are several woman-led teams that are just absolutely crushing it, but it still looks and can feel like quite the boys' club.

- Related: the company - at least in the Denver area, but perhaps nationwide - is guided in large part by Christians, and/or political conservatives with Christian values. Again, this isn't every team, nor is this a drawback per se, but for those who weren't raised in that faith tradition or for those with more progressive leanings, the emphasis on faith and Christian practices can be jarring and even off-putting.

- Assistant or associate financial reps (AFRs) aren't technically employees of NM; they're employees of the financial representatives (FRs) who hire them. So, while NM is a large company that employs at least 20,000 people nationwide, when you join a team as an AFR, you're essentially working for a small business. The impact of this is that your employing FR may or may not have the means or desire to offer you the compensation you need, nor is there a lot of consistency between teams' compensation practices that you can look to in order to bolster your case for getting more than you're offered. This also means that AFRs aren't extended the opportunity to participate in the company's health care or retirement plans - the establishment of these plans are, again up to your individual employer.

- While most FRs offer bonuses and salary increases to their teams based on the achievement of annual performance goals, there's not a lot of positional advancement as an AFR. You may be tapped to be the investments specialist, or to run the financial plans, or to get in front of clients and conduct meetings on your own, or to fill different roles as needs arise or as new team-members come onboard (that's working in a small business for you - never boring!), but your success is contingent on your boss's success, and your professional advancement is bounded by theirs. And this may be perfectly fine for you! MANY of my colleagues loved their jobs and saw being an AFR as the best way to serve their clients, their team, their families, and their communities. I also know many AFRs who are very highly compensated. However, it's not uncommon to talk to AFRs who are frustrated by their lack of career advancement. So, if you know that you skew ambitious, keep this in mind when evaluating hour hiring team, and the reality of your position won't clash with your expectations.

It's soul crushing, it's gut wrenching, it's tireless, thankless work, but the paycheck is steady and you'll have more management than you'll know what to do with. Welcome to the world of long term contract IT helpdesk work.

Contracting can be a great way to get into a field and a company, but with a company that runs a 50/50 contractor/employee workforce there are some fine print issues you always want to be aware of.

The fine print of this position: You won't be a real employee so benefits will be gained through your contracting agency and can be near nonexistent. You won't be a real employee so you won't get to take part in the company's culture, or team building exercises. Advancement will be all about networking, but you need to focus on getting converted first, which can be very hard depending on how the company likes to manage their contract workforce. The work is demanding and you're kept to a much stricter set of metrics. You won't be learning or exercising new skillsets that have real world application. If you need time off, it will be a struggle, as will gaining raises. You'll have team leaders, department heads, support leads, and of course your contracting firm management, balancing all the management and management styles can be very tricky, as well as trying to navigate how to please them all, while delivering world class service, but don't worry though some of them might not even remember your name most days...

I know my review can make it seem rather off putting, and if I had to go back and do it all over again, I would do something different, but the experiences won't be all bad. Your contracting company is your greatest ally and resource. Having worked through Adecco I can tell you that the manager they had at NM was amazing and always helpful. The work will be steady, and if you are disciplined after you lost your motivation in your downtime (which there may be a lot of) you can learn a lot. You're always meeting new people, the revolving doors are more than just literal, this is great especially if you use it as a chance to focus on networking and client/employee relations. Any new skills that you will need to learn will come with some sort of training. In an IT environment you'll be able to practice adnauseum any base level skills (not core principles, though).

If you're looking to get into IT support, I think contracting helpdesk is a great place to get your start. You will learn the basics, and you will be so practiced that these skills will assist you throughout your career. However if you're looking to really get into the inner workings of IT support, you'll need to work very hard to master them, and practice them, because a long term contract on a helpdesk means more call handling, metric meeting, and management juggling, than it does any type of technical support.

It is a 100% commission job with no base salary. They do provide a small weekly stipend for new hires while they are going through training. In the beginning, it appeared to be a great place to work, based on the motivational speeches, stories of personal impact, and huge earnings potential. As a new financial representative you need to come in with a ton of contacts and money in the bank. You could go weeks and months without any income. You spend most of your day calling or having meeting with "prospects". There are a lot of daily/weekly/monthly training meetings with groups and leaders. At times there are almost too many meetings. In the beginning you are basically hounding your family, friends, and acquaintances to purchase life, disability, and long term care insurance from you. You also end up hounding those same people to provide you with more contacts to hound. You have certain productivity goals each day/week/month that revolve around phone calls and meetings. If you call enough people and set enough meetings you "should" get the expected number of new clients and lives. There is a minimum new client and lives goal that must be met by the 6 month mark. If you don't meet that minimum you are encouraged to move on.  While you trying to get your business off the ground and generate income in your first 6 months, sometimes spending nights and weekends working, you are expected to study for/take multiple state insurance license tests and the 6/63 security license exams. The company does pay for you to get your first two states insurance licences as well as your 6/63.You are required to have "joint work" prospect/client meetings with seasoned veterans and split the commission earned if the prospect/client decides to move forward with anything. Without your 6/63 license you can't even talk financial planning and so your "joint work partner" takes the lead in all conversations. You also don't earn commission on financials until you have your 6/63 license. The management team was great most of the time, offering many learning opportunities, but if you are not cutting it, they can be harsh and ultimately move on from you. It appears that only 1/100 new financial representatives make it past 6 months. They are always recruiting for and trying to fill open positions. Some people make it a week or two, others a month or two, some make 3-6 months, but very few make it past 6 months. The "college intern program" is where most of the successful financial representatives come from. They get catered too and are set up for success. There seems to be a lot more time and energy spent on them than those that are career changers.

Northwestern Mutual is a well-established financial services firm with a long history, strong financial ratings, and a solid reputation for its insurance products. However, my experience revealed some major concerns that anyone considering a career—or even becoming a client—should weigh carefully.

The Positives:

The company offers extensive training, particularly for those new to the industry. If you're just starting out, you'll gain exposure to financial planning basics, insurance products, and investment strategies.

The brand recognition and client trust are real assets—many clients are more comfortable working with a firm that has a household name.

There are mentorship opportunities, and if you connect with the right people, you can find a supportive team culture.

Major Concerns:

Commission-Driven Model: While Northwestern Mutual touts its commitment to helping clients achieve financial security, the advisor compensation model is heavily commission-based, especially early on. This creates a natural tension between what's best for the client and what pays the bills for the advisor. As someone who values low-pressure, client-first advising, this was a serious drawback.

Product-Centric Culture: The firm places a strong emphasis on whole life insurance—often pitching it as a catch-all solution for long-term financial planning. This may be appropriate for some clients, but it often felt like it was being pushed as a one-size-fits-all product. In some cases, investment or budgeting needs seemed secondary to making a life insurance sale.

Recruitment Focus: There’s also an expectation, at least in some offices, to recruit others into the program—an approach that borders on MLM-like structure. This can be frustrating if you’re there to serve clients, not build a downline.

Lack of Salary or Financial Stability: Most new advisors start without a base salary, relying solely on commissions. This model can be financially risky, especially for those who are genuinely trying to help people rather than just close high-dollar sales.

Conclusion: If you're an entrepreneurial self-starter who thrives under pressure and enjoys selling, you might succeed here. But if your passion lies in objective, fiduciary-style financial advising—especially in a low-pressure, educational environment—you may want to explore fee-only firms, nonprofit counseling agencies, or roles where compensation isn’t tied directly to product sales.

Northwestern Mutual isn’t a scam or a pyramid scheme—it’s a legitimate company with a very specific business model. Just make sure that model aligns with your ethics, goals, and financial needs before jumping in.

As a financial representative for Northwestern Mutual, I viewed it as an extension of my teaching career, just a whole different subject and much bigger "students". I used many of the same skills to be successful in both the financial and education environments. I found the work to be rewarding & a privilege to work with people on one of the most important aspects of living a "good life" - finances and protecting loved ones.
I built my practice from the ground up; I did not have many referrals to start with so built my practice initially by cold calling and joining many community groups such as a Chamber of Commerce to meet potential business contacts & clients on a favorable basis. It was not an easy start, but it brought out just how much tenacity I have because then in my 2nd-3rd year, my practice grew leaps and bounds. I was able to afford my own full-time office manager and won awards at both the local and national level. I ended up having 60% individual sales to administrators mostly in education field, engineers mostly in the high tech industry and executives mostly in the high tech and marketing industries (and, of course, their families). The other 40% was to business owners as individuals and adding to their employee benefit packages offered on a voluntary basis. This not only involved group health, disability and long-term care insurance products, but also the company's investment program (executive bonus, 401(k) / SEPP.
Northwestern Mutual's training program was continual and necessary and, in my view, second to none. I was an adept student of the sales cycle, the products in insurance and investments, and how to build a business.
During my financial representative career, I worked jointly with a wide variety of personalities in the many veteran agents from whom I learned so much. It was wonderful to become the veteran agent so I could pass on all I had learned to up & coming newer agents. I also was asked to join the LEAD group which trains representatives to learn more about management positions, train in the new agent training classes and potentially become a part of the executive team.
It was a rewarding career on many levels. In 2006, my focus was not where it should've been to continue maintaining and building my practice due to meeting the man I would eventually marry. I decided it was not fair to me, him and most importantly, my clients who deserved my attention. I now regret this decision, but at the time, it was the correct one.

My typical day starts off with confirming appointments, rescheduling if needed, updating my employers and accommodating the staff. Once my employer's schedule is set for the day and he knows where he needs to be and what he needs to do, I move onto the administrative work. I fill out all the paperwork, handle all the underwriting, create illustrations, answer emails, and resolve any and all client problems. At the end of the day, I continue to fill up my employer's calendar; the busier he is, the better his business, the happier we both are. 

In this industry, I learned a lot, but not everything, about the finance world, especially in insurance and investments. I have sat through workshops featuring legends in this industry and have learned so much. I know how to run all the illustrations catered to each client's needs and limitations. I learned how to fill out paperwork quickly and correctly. I quickly picked up how to speak to clients and how to answer their questions concisely. Most importantly, I learned how to time manage and multi-task. In addition, we have a technology coach who comes once or twice a month to update us on everything and because everyone else in the office did not really understand technology, I took it upon myself to learn everything so that we would not have to wait for our tech-coach to come to help us resolve any issues.

In the beginning, managing such a heavy calendar and work flow was difficult. Thanks to my employer and the staff members, they helped me whenever I had questions so that I would soon be able to work on my own. Now, I am able to work without any supervision and is one of the go-to persons for other financial representatives. My bosses are amazing and supportive; they are always looking out for the best of my interests.

My coworkers are by far the best reason to come to work everyday. Our office culture is commendable and I love seeing the faces I see every day. We are more than just coworkers, we are a family. No matter, where life takes each of us, we are happy for one another. 

The hardest part of my job is the sales portion. Although it is not required of my to take part in this, I like to help out in any way I can. I will admit that this is extremely difficult for me and this is not my strongest attribute.

The most enjoyable part is seeing my bosses succeed. When I helped one of them achieve two of his goals, his happiness made me extremely happy as well. I'm glad to have been part of such an exciting step of his career.

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