Anyone else notice from working in banking how broke everybody is? The vast majority of people I help are living paycheck to paycheck, and carry around an attitude of general fatigue and bitterness. Been a crazy eye opener for me these last 2 years in the industry.
*Save
*Invest
*Own and pay down a modest home before retirement
*Don’t have kids unless you’re loaded
My main takeaways^
Anyone else work for a community bank where the rates are brutally uncompetitive and all the bankers just stand around and laugh all the time talking to clients about the weather ad nauseam?
Hoping to get some guidance on this one, I was at wells for a year as a personal banker and left for a lateral move with a boost in base pay. I’m at a community bank now and have been made aware that there are no plans for licensed positions or junior FA roles, which is a huge bummer because it’s not what I was told by management when interviewing. Morale of the story: salary is not everything.
Would you recommend I stay put here and get my SIE+63 passed and apply directly to a relationship banker role, or apply back as a personal banker and work my way up to licensing through Wells again?
Feels like I took a big step back in my career these last 6 months, trying to course correct and get back towards upward mobility. Any advice is welcome, thank you!