Pros
Great opportunity to make a lot of money and one day be your own boss of sorts. Great training (by far the best in the industry from everyone I have ever talked to and they only one where they pay you while you study) and perks like dinners and parties. You are paid to study and get your Series 7 and 66 and insurance licence and you are also paid a salary that tapers off as you go through your first year and your commisions begin to increase.
Cons
As a financial advisor you need to work about 60-80 hours per week to get done what they expect of you. You are paid barely above min. wage but get a lot of overtime and double time working so much. I made about 2300-2500 per month before I was eligible to recieve comission. You are very busy all the time. Start at 7am reading emails and checking the 400 messages you get through their system. 9am: Doorknocking (yes, doorknocking) until about 5pm. Then you probably have a meeting of some sort or a dinner to go to (which is actually a meeting too) until 7 or 8pm then you get to come home and put tons of info into your computer for a couple hours and then you have to spend another hour getting ready to do it all over again tomorrow. I am not the best salesman so it was difficult for me to get sales but the doorknocking itself was not as bad as I thought it would be but you do need thick skin at times.