Pros
Allowed latitude to make decisions in the best interest of the members Start learning to do mortgages immediately
Cons
Badly managed. The branch manager was recalled to corporate right after I was hired (supposedly because of our branch's high turnover rate and in poor management in general), but after 5 months without a manager and still no one to fill the spot, they sent the same manager back. Stressful. There is no limit to the work that can be put on your plate. You can learn to do mortgages in a few months, but they take TIME to work on. You cannot take time away from members to work on your existing commitments. The complaint I heard most often from members was that member advisors didn't call them back. By the end, I realized the problem wasn't lazy MA's, but that there just is simply not enough to time to follow up. Compensation. I was paid under $15/hr even though I had just received a BA in economics and had over a year of office experience. This was simply insufficient pay to be originating, processing, underwriting, and closing mortgages in addition to being required to bend over backwards to fulfill responsibilities passed out by management.