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//Why financial planning?
You really can make a difference
They don't teach us much at school about managing our money and building our futures - so we all need some degree of financial planning advice.
As a financial planner, you're helping people empower themselves. They'll achieve all they can in life, become financially better off, and plan a secure future for themselves, their partner, their children and their children's children.
So if you've always been good at analysis with a human touch - balancing the rational with the emotional - working with numbers as well as needs and desires - then financial planning could well be the career for you.
It's jam-packed with variety
You'll never get bored. Financial planning is anything but exactly the same thing day after day, week after week - because all your clients and their lives and needs are so different.
You will be wearing many different hats throughout each working day - life coach, financial guide, money management trainer, and even provide your clients with emotional support when they need it the most.
Great financial planners are right brain and left brain people who thrive on variety and love a challenge. Best of all is that you don't have to chain yourself to a desk day in, day out - and you can choose to work at a big financial institution, a smaller boutique firm, or start up your own independent practice.
Working in foreign countries is an option too - financial planners are in demand all around the world.
You'll be well rewarded, and recognised
Salaries for financial planners are above average, so while you're helping other people become better off, you'll be improving your own life as well. The financial knowledge you've gained in your work will help you make the most of your own income.
You'll have gathered being a financial planner is about helping others improve their own lives, and there's more than one way of doing that. For example, the FPA has developed the FPA Pro Bono Program which enables financial planners to provide free or reduced cost financial advice to disadvantaged Australians.
Pro bono work is a demonstration of professionalism for many financial planners, and it helps achieve recognition within your community.
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