Pros
A recognized national name. You are, to a point, your own boss.
Cons
Nothing but door to door sales to get your initial and ongoing business. Demeaning practice of making you a sales and new business jockey. No actual advising of your clients, as they have you shove mediocre funds with high fees in front of clients, skimming the border between shady and illegal from a suitability standpoint. Terrible upper management is out of touch with reality. Hours are just crazy, you'll probably work 12 hour days, every day, and even weekends, for little to no results. Don't believe the hype of this job, if you don't already have a book of business you WILL fail and they will simply transfer your clients to a good ol boy advisor who has been there forever. Run far away to a real investment company who will value you as a person. This business model will quickly crash in a few years when older customers fade off, so there isn't much of a future anyway. I'm assuming Ed Jones paid off the "top places to work" lists, this should be bottom of the barrel.