5.0
31 Jan 2012
Current employee
Philadelphia, PA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
A chance to make helping people your profession, as well as be ethical and generous in what you do... It's certainly hard work, but it truly helps you find out who you really are.
Cons
Being an advisor means owning your own business every sense, from branding to marketing to cost to clients. It took me a while to figure that out, and, as any other business might, my business suffered. Plenty of folks who stare down that reality have a hard time facing it, and that's not Thrivent's fault, nor is it their own. It's merely a difference in character and drive, and why it is so difficult to "make it" in the advisor profession.