The Route is Rocky, but the Rewards Are Rich
by Julie Bennets and featured in The Wall Street Journal Financial & Financial Advisor Careers Section October, 2007: Marlene Mazur, of Colts neck, N.J., started her financial career 30 years ago, right after she graduated from high school. She passed the Series 6 and Series 22 exams required by the national Association of Securities Dealers to sell financial products and started selling mutual funds to her friends’ parents. Today, Ms. Mazur is a broker/dealer representative, affiliated with WRP Investments in Youngstown, OH, doing financial and retirement planning and tax work for a long list of clients. She won’t reveal how well she’s doing, but says that she and her husband own a 15-acre horse farm and an office building in Colts Neck. In a few years, their son Ken, 22, will take over her business,...