Why I Want To Be A Financial Advisor

A personal financial advisor is a person who gives advice on many things including investments, insurance, mortgages, college loans and savings, estate planning, taxes, and retirement. Their jobs are to help individuals manage their accounts and finances in a good way. They have the responsibilities of helping their clients plan for their short and long-term financial goals. The responsibilities that I would like would be to help all the people that I could, and that I could make people’s lives better by helping them manage their finances so they can use them in the best ways that they can. The responsibilities that I would not like would be having all the pressure of people’s money on your shoulders. If you were to make a mistake and misguide …show more content…
These characteristics include understanding math and numbers, having good communication skills, being able to do thorough research, having good salesmanship skills, and also strong negotiation skills. All of these skills would be important because they can all help you in different areas of the job. This career fits my personality because I enjoy math and dealing with numbers, and I am pretty good at it, too. I also enjoy helping people and being a financial advisor would give me more opportunities to do that. This career also requires many personal values, like helping others, a good status, cleanliness, and many others. All of these personal values are very important to me because they are all very important in being successful in your job and in your life in …show more content…
Financial planners work in offices and in the field, either alone or in teams. They may hold financial planning workshops with local community groups or at adult schools. Some financial advisors meet their clients at their homes or businesses. Financial planners sometimes work more than forty hours per week, especially in the beginning when they are trying to establish certain clients. Usually they work for long hours in the office. Some financial advisors even have to work evenings and weekends to meet with clients. They will usually travel by your own car, or by a company issued car to go meet with clients. This job can be very stressful at time depending on how many clients you are working with at a time. What I would like about the work setting would be getting to get out of the office often to meet with clients. What I would dislike about this work setting would be that are often long hours of sitting in and office trying to get things