Pros
After graduating from Ohio State with a degree in Finance in 2014, It was a struggle to find a company that could live up to its promises. Being able to use your talents to make as much money as you can seems like a pretty ideal goal, right? Not for typical brick and mortar companies though, especially when it came to Finance Institutions. Something wasn't adding up, in the way that those companies did job interviews to the way they treated employees and most importantly, their compensation plans.
I had to leave Huntington Bank (headquartered in Columbus by the way) to become a full-time tennis instructor, because it actually paid significantly more than what Huntington paid their Fund Accountants. Luckily, I played tennis since 6 years old and had experience teaching over the summers in High School and College at a Country Club back home, so I was able to get acclimated pretty quickly and get to earning money so that I could pay the bills and be able to stay in my apartment in Columbus and not be displaced. Can you imagine what other kids in my position had to resort to?
After 2 years of that grueling job, Homeside Financial, now Lower.com came calling with a chance to be a part of their growing company. For me, it was a chance to protect my body, and get into a sales role, which I had been doing anyways with Tennis, it's just that the money wasn't there, and I was sick of working 30/ 31 day months.
Long story short, it has been a year and a half, and I am now a Sr. Loan Officer. It only took me 6 months to get promoted to that position. And now, I am only 3 months away from an Assistant Vice President role, and have revamped my life. Going to buy groceries no longer comes with the fear of overdrafting my account. Going into work is a blast every day. Management will listen to your goals and help you achieve them, and money that I thought wasn't possible to make, only because everyone else out there in other industries say it isn't possible, because they have never seen that kind of money, is now at my fingertips.
All I wanted was a job where the employers could see my talent and work with me to help me utilize it to make the most possible income that I could while achieving goals and setting expectations along the way, and that is one thousand percent what this company has done. If you want to sit back and listen to adults in the industry say that you have to wait until something comes available and then apply at their company, even though that is lip service, or if you want to continue to believe your peers who are post grads either lie about the money they make or say that it isn't possible to make 6 figures regardless of how many years shy of age 30 you are, then this job is not for you. But if you want to control your own destiny and be put in the best possible position to succeed and make money, then you need to apply to this company. No one else out there will help you make what you want to make. Where else can you ask your manager that you want to sit down and talk about goals on how much commission to make? Probably very few, if not any.
I guarantee, that if you produce, and you work at it, the goals that you set will be met, and it will be a life changing experience working at this company. Wouldn't you rather be set going into age 30, or have to pick up the pieces and figure out what's going on? Sadly, in some of the best job markets, Columbus included, employers really don't care if you get to the other side of 30 and are in trouble. But, at Lower.com, you are treated like family, and will be able to set yourself up.
Cons
There are no negatives to working here
