>> My name is Michael, Michael Grinnon, class of 2005, University of Maryland.
I work for New York Life as a-- for after 5-1/2 years as a financial adviser.
I am now a partner with our Northern Virginia firm
and my job is responsibilities include hiring and developing financial advisers.
Typical day as a financial adviser, I'll talk about that, is coming into the office,
designing your different cases, yeah, your client's retirement strategies,
putting together a plan, and interacting with say two to three clients per day.
So sitting, going to either their office to their home and designing a retirement plan.
So, a lot of client interaction, so you're dealing with people on a day
to day basis, a lot of networking.
So if you're not having appointments with clients, you're attending different types
of events, going out and trying to meet people.
Instead of dealing day to day with clients,
I'm now dealing with the financial advisers themselves,
hiring new financial advisers and developing the.
For instance, in the morning time, I teach in our class, teaching about product knowledge,
about retirement strategies, and help the advisers with the sales process
of the whole entire process of working with the client.