So apparently there's a 1024 character limit when - type to my blog from my phone. I just wasted another 80 characters explaining that, and another 85 explaining the explanation.

Back to my life as a financial planner. I've gotten quotes from local newspapers as to the cost of advertising in one of their newspapers. The newspaper companies reply a lot faster when you're willing to pay. The general price right now for a one day spread around half a page in length is my unborn son. The Metro newspaper has some really nice people working there, they called me up to give me different strategies I could use like the use of an 'earlug.' Whatever you think an earlug is, it's not.

I'm going to see if I can pay the newspaper companies in financial advice, or car washes. Look for my ad in the near future, it'll be the black and white one in the section that no one reads, you'll probably have to squint because I can't afford a full page, but it'll be there, and it'll be worth every penny.

I've decided to start posting my life as a financial planner, to keep myself on track and because I'm bored.

Some background information: I started working at Manulife Financials the first week of July. Since then I have written and passed the life and accident licensing exam. I recently wrote the CFP exam in November, but the council is taking their sweet time marking the exam and the results won't be available till December the 21st. Apparently it takes a while to feed the scantron into the machine.

After writing the CFP exam, I've been blue skied to start doing my business. Business has been slow though. I've started off with some friends, although not everyone is buying into this financial business thing I'm doing. Being labelled as a 'sales person' isn't helping my reputation.

I've sent out e-mails to local newspapes offering to write financial articles for free. Only one of them has since replied back and they pretty much spoke for everyone, he has financial articles up to his neck.