Generally, financial advising is not a career for everyone. Whether at Lenox or another company, the beginning is very tough - it's a steep trek of long hours and delayed gratification until an advisor's business can sustain itself. Every successful advisor has a similar story about the sacrifices they had to make in the beginning to break through. There will be a lot of rejection in the beginning, tough lessons in self-ownership, and unsteady compensation - feast-or-famine - unless the new advisor really works hard to stay active. Lazy people, as talented or smart as you may be, need not apply. At the end of the day, if your manager is any good, expect a lot of pressure. If, in your first year, you find yourself working 9-5 instead of getting in early to find clients and staying late doing paperwork & prepping for the next day, you (and your manager) are doing something wrong. But a few years in, once revenue is recurring, one can easily have full control over a ~25-30 hr/week schedule with ample compensation.
