For the Win!

[eggwards]

I'm standing on the 11 books and various notes I've used to pass the various licensing exams I've taken over the past year. I finally passed the last one, the Series 63, earlier this week finally ending all this crap. All of these books will now collect dust somewhere.

Over the last ten years I've sat for five different exams. My first two licenses have lapsed, one being supplanted by the Series 7 last year (the test with six separate books), and the management license wasn't carried over by my last employer. I currently hold the 7, the 63 and a Texas Insurance License. Over the next few months I have to get an Insurance license for the other 50 states (49 + DC). Luckily I don't have to take another test for those.

Otherwise, the job is going well. It's super busy with tax season in full swing, and people's statements just going out. I love the calls where people wonder why they've lost money in stock based investments this year. Still, even better are the calls from people who didn't know that they even had a retirement account. The moment they hear there's more money out there, they want to know if they can cash out, not thinking about the future. Ahh, the final triumph of a consumer-based economy.

Despite weeks of training, there are many ways that customers can throw you. there have been questions here that I've never had at previous jobs., partially because there's many more types of investments here than I've worked with before. Still, someone can come along trying to log on our company website and get an error that no one in the office has ever seen before.


Now that all of the tests are done (for now) I need to get to some home based projects and cleaning. Believe me, Chris would really like me to do more of the cleaning.


In other news, our little neighborhood suffered some damage, torn up garage doors and fallen trees, but other areas of town suffered much more in the storm. I had to go through a detour yesterday coming home where a huge metal power line tower had been blown over and many newly built homes had been stripped of their rooves. The small neighborhood next to us, the one I call tiny town, had their entire fence blow over. Still, the city of Dallas has already replaced the traffic light poles at the nearby intersection.

Comments

[cpj.livejournal.com]

You made those books your bitch!

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

I suppose so. Now Chris has to study for some Cisco Certification he's looking for so there's another batch of books entering the house!

Thanks!

[notmypresident.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry — there were books in that picture???

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Well, against my imposing frame they look very, very small. :-)

[notmypresident.livejournal.com]

Well, against my imposing frame they look very, very small.

Ummm, no — I don't think that's why I missed 'em!

[texwriterbear.livejournal.com]

Can you please come take the 63 for me?????? PLEASE!!!!!

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

I suppose I have enough of it in my head right now to take it again. In a few days all that info will be gone. I think I studied for the 63 the least as I had just finished the Insurance license a few weeks ago. I was really nervous about this one. I've never had to take any of these test twice, and didn't want to make this the first!

When do you sit for the 63?

[texwriterbear.livejournal.com]

I haven't decided when I'm going to sit yet. Hopefully the beginning of the summer, so I can get this over with.

[truckerbear.livejournal.com]

Great job fella! Hope the job continues to go well!

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The job has been a little stressful this week as there are a lot of people calling who are doing their taxes. It's a time of the year I normally dread, and we're never allowed to take vacation during it, otherwise I'd be in the northeast following Bears on the Run!

Congratulations on little Emma there!

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!!

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[blachubear.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. You finally gotten over the hump. Thanks for posting a very hot pic of yourself with your journal. Now relax, you deserve it.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's smooth sailing for me right now. And I'm more marketable to boot!

Thanks!

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

No, I didn't know that. I know the tests we take are similar to yours, but I believe that there is a separate licensing agency - we have FINRA, which used to be the NASD. There were a couple of Canadian questions on this last exam, the first time I've ever seen them. Apparently if you want to sell to a Canadian living here you have to get US licenses, too. That sucks if you have William Shatner or Michael J Fox as your client.

I used to work for AIM investments down in Houston, and got to know a few people over at AIM Trimark, but that's all the canadian industry I know.

[bigboychb.livejournal.com]

Someone's got a little captain in them.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Yes, I saw that resemblance. I took a picture with me facing the other way and it looked even more like a Capt. Morgan ad. Maybe it would have been better if I were drunk.