Northwestern Mutual financial representatives

Sucks during your 20's. Start making bank in your 40s and 50s

total scam and soul less if you ask me. I assume its the selling of life ins policies? 100% commission based work is awful imo

a good friend of mine here in B'ham worked for them. He left them for another shop though. He said the training/knowledge he picked up was top notch, but that he felt he could make more/do more at another place. Something to do with he can't collect commissions on clients he brought in unless he was with NW, whereas I guess with other companies the commissions follow you if you sold the products. don't quote me on that exactly because I am not 100% sure if that is how it works, just the gist I gathered from what he told me.

Can't be worse than Edward Jones.

I'm 100 % commission. All my 100% commission buddies laugh at salaried employees and call them clock monkeys. The thought of "salary" repels us, because we read it as "income cap". Salaries are for chumps in our world. They are a ceiling, a limit on our production. Every time I explain this to a down-on-his-luck-young-guy I can see the skepticism as if I'm a con man. I offered an opportunity to a 20-something recently, and he just couldn't see it. It's like he was seeing hieroglyphics for the first time. Yet I could take him and turn him from an unemployed guy to a serious earner in the span of 18 months. People want that low-ball guarantee like oxygen, but they are scared as hell of real opportunity because it requires them to REALLY apply themselves. For the record, google those NW Mutual guy's (that have been there for a while) addresses and check out their digs. Pay attention to the guys over forty. It will tell you what you need to know.

Whew. Been wanting to get that out....

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I'm 100 % commission. All my 100% commission buddies laugh at salaried employees and call them clock monkeys. The thought of "salary" repels us, because we read it as "income cap". Salaries are for chumps in our world. They are a ceiling, a limit on our production. Every time I explain this to a down-on-his-luck-young-guy I can see the skepticism as if I'm a con man. I offered an opportunity to a 20-something recently, and he just couldn't see it. It's like he was seeing hieroglyphics for the first time. Yet I could take him and turn him from an unemployed guy to a serious earner in the span of 18 months. People want that low-ball guarantee like oxygen, but they are scared as hell of real opportunity because it requires them to REALLY apply themselves. For the record, google those NW Mutual guy's (that have been there for a while) addresses and check out their digs. Pay attention to the guys over forty. It will tell you what you need to know.

Whew. Been wanting to get that out....

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You definitely speak at those MLM rallies.......

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I just couldn't get up every day knowing my well-being is decided by the feelings and decisions of those that I will approach that day.

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I understand, but this is basically the same thing that anyone who is self-employed or owns their business does.

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I understand, but this is basically the same thing that anyone who is self-employed or owns their business does.

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Yes and no... some products are needed to survive and function. Insurance is not like gasoline, glass, tires, etc.... there is a buffer there.

I am in another world of work FWIW

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I'm 100 % commission. All my 100% commission buddies laugh at salaried employees and call them clock monkeys. The thought of "salary" repels us, because we read it as "income cap". Salaries are for chumps in our world. They are a ceiling, a limit on our production. Every time I explain this to a down-on-his-luck-young-guy I can see the skepticism as if I'm a con man. I offered an opportunity to a 20-something recently, and he just couldn't see it. It's like he was seeing hieroglyphics for the first time. Yet I could take him and turn him from an unemployed guy to a serious earner in the span of 18 months. People want that low-ball guarantee like oxygen, but they are scared as hell of real opportunity because it requires them to REALLY apply themselves. For the record, google those NW Mutual guy's (that have been there for a while) addresses and check out their digs. Pay attention to the guys over forty. It will tell you what you need to know.

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it takes certain types of people to do this. I wouldn't want to annoy the frick out of friends and family to hock them ins policies and financial bs. I guess i liken it to going into a bar and asking every woman in the bar out. most will say no, but probably one or two will say yes.

if you are ok with 90% rejection i guess that's your prerogative. i prefer salary with benefits complimenting performance

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I understand, but this is basically the same thing that anyone who is self-employed or owns their business does.

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Agreed. I could never be in sales, but NW Mutual is a solid company.