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.