I wonder if I have set a goal that is unreasonable. I was recently laid off. I have a wife and 2 kids to support. I have decided to change careers entirely. I have been a composer at a multimedia firm for 3 years. Before I was laid off, I decided I want to become a financial planner/invesment broker. I order to do this I have to get 3 different licenses with the state. An insurance license (Group 1) and 2 investments licenses (Series 6 and 63). I have to do some really heavy reading to study for the licenses. The insurance book is about 250 pages. I don't know how big the other books are but I'm guessing they are about the same. All in all it's gonna cost me about $1000 bucks to pay for the licenses. Keep in mind I have no job and no income. I'm told it takes most people about 3 months to study this material. I am going to attempt it in about 3 weeks. I used some of my severance pay to buy the PRWMS course in the hope that I could learn how to photoread in about 1 week and then use the other 2 weeks to photoread my study materials. Oh, by the way I'm quitting smoking this week too. So now I have comitted to this crazy plan. This is my third day with the PR course. Do you think I can do it, or have I lost my mind? Any comments appreciated.
