You must make sure you have a really, really reliable vehicle! This position can be very financially difficult in the beginning with just regular maintenance(God forbid something expensive happens), even though you get reimbursements and an auto-allowance.
I’m not a fan of how activity is structured/tracked. You can hit 50 businesses a day for a month and book only 3 meetings in total, but activity will still be mentioned. Granted, you should be able to just fall into deals with that kind of effort, but at the same time, they don’t really tap into whether it’s a maybe a skill set issue or what and it’s like they don’t really care how the market is(especially, if you’re in a rough market/territory). Not to mention, it’s mandatory to comeback into the office after you’re done for the day.
This is not a family-friendly job and work-life balance is pretty much out the window. Our days start off at 7am and end well after 5pm(especially, when your book of business gets super large and you’re working on big deals all at once.) Just make sure your budget is prepared before accepting this position and not every office is the same or has great culture and expertise. You also only receive 5 PTO days in your first year(you can “borrow” more but that’ll cost you in the backend) which again, isn’t really substantial for anyone, especially, family oriented people.
What comes with working for a top office with top management and directors, comes a lot of time constraints and commitments they have, which means that sometimes when you need help and coaching, you can’t always get it.
