Your funny.  Maybe the first couple of months out…8k per month.  However, I was pushing 20k per month, and just turned profitable.  This doesn’t mean much, other than my first commission check here was equal to my last good month at Jones.  I will admit, I sounded just like you the first few months…say 8 months can sell date.  But, then the attitude started to change and my conscience(sp) took hold.  It also helped having several buds move to the independent model.  Not losers, I wouldn’t follow losers to another firm, but good honest brokers with anywhere from 25million to 100+m aum. Lowest producer numbers 180k who left.  This guy had a 24 net month recently…been away from Jones 14 months. So, contrary to your info…we’re not all losers here.

sooo, did you hit seg 3???

Seg 3 …yah …11 months out.  If you read my posts you’ll see exactly how I made it to seg 3 and the accts I blew up…but it was all about the month and the next segment jerk off.  Partner in 3 years…who were you blowin or how much did you take over.

it was actually 3 years, and 7 months.  no assets, i built it one door at a time.  i also have a very large firm backing me in case times get rough.  does lpl help out in litigation and other disasters?

Doug, Are you that bored in premature retirement? Wipe your lip.

Do things right and you won’t have to worry about litigation.  Your mistaken if you think EDJ’s will be there when you need them. Your an employee…who paid in to get bond payments…LP…LIMITED partner.  Disasters…so if my computer goes down…I get my laptop and log back on to access my client accts…let’s see…the remote access Jones has…hell took me 20 minutes just to log on and couldn’t trade or do anything…well maybe make sales calls.  You need to venture out and open your eyes.  Maybe your afraid to…maybe your afraid you’ll polute your mind and start thinking YOU’RE being screwed, big time!! Don’t you have a call session you need to be getting ready for??

i recently heard of a broker losing his son in a drunk driving accident.  jim weddle, burr, fess, and some of the other lps were at the funeral. is the head of lpl going to come to your kids funeral?  my eyes are wide open... im surounded by very successful people in my region.  if there was a better mouse trap out there, these people would have left a long time ago. 

by the way, im runing the call session... 

Well, you know…EDJ trained most of the new LPL brokers…so…kinda scary if you think about it.  What you do is not proprietary(sp)…so guess what…I plan on making several contacts daily…visiting prospects…seminars…evening calls/appts.  So I assume I will still bring in 6-7million a year…push my production back up to 20k+ per month…except with a higher payout.  You don’t believe you can do dk’s better because your at EDJ’s, do you? Seriously, you don’t…do you?  How about 25-30 contacts per day…ask for the order…money due…appts to review your statement.  You think this is all proprietary?  When the (failing) newby moved to my office, I didn’t care…I know I will be here 30 years from now…and (if the office is still there) there will be another 5-10 brokers run through it.

I could care less if the boss of LPL is at the funeral.  A crook in the big office is still a crook at the funeral.  Hell if I was making a huge amount of cash off the backs of my employees, I might find the time (out of my nap time) to go to a funeral or two…just to make you feel good about making more calls for me.  Did you ever think it was a marketing tool…and it worked. Your here talking about…my managing partner went to this nobodys funeral. Isn’t he great…we have a great firm now.

yeah, but if it didnt work at jones, how the hell is it going to work at lpl…  at the end of the day, edward jones is the top firm to work for.  they take care of their producers…  no one does it better.   thats  why they rank so high in fortune and jd powers.  that damn cool aid must have leaked into our clients cups. 

i bet you dont care about who comes to your kids funeral.  i bet you would also sleep with your best friends wife cause she's got all her teeth and is "smokin hot"

The Jonsee's are all starting to cringe, he's pulling "Holier than thou.."   BS.

the indies are cringing cause im right...

While I don't agree with caddy's attitude, I do agree with his logic.  One of the reasons people stay at Jones is for the things the "man" will do for the "employees."  I've seen them pay for funerals, give extra time off for grieving, hold offices for deployed IRs, cover overwhelming medical costs, pay for adoptions, etc.  It's a very giving firm. 

On the other hand, if I'm indy, I wouldn't expect anything from my b/d.  It's my name on the door, not theirs. 

Caddy, from one Jones guy to another (maybe), give it a rest, please. 

if they can call your boss a jerk and a crook, the gloves come off, my friend.

What do you mean…Didn’t work at Jones.  Hell, thats why I’m here…it did work.  But why let Jimmy reap the rewards of my hardwork?  See this is the big disconnect.  EDJ’s believes people leave because IT DIDN"T WORK AT JONES…bullsh*t.  Except, It did work and now WE’RE reaping the fruits of our labor.  We’ve all confessed, Jones is a good place to start…not end. 

My boss'll be at any funeral i tell him to go to! He'll be at a funeral of a total stranger if I tell him to be...

I'm the boss!

That's the difference!

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it was actually 3 years, and 7 months.  no assets, i built it one door at a time.  i also have a very large firm backing me in case times get rough.  does lpl help out in litigation and other disasters?

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You don't have E&O insurance.  Doesn't that worry you just the teeniest bit?  

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the indies are cringing cause im right...

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Actually, I'm cringing because you are illiterate.

You guys do know that justboughtacaddy is putting y’all on, right?