<prompt> Human: I recently joined the Financial group known as World Financial Group and have noticed quite a bit of mixed reviews in this. For those of who have joined this firm or others like it before, can you help me out in whether or not if I made a decent decision in joining this? Any tips? and since I plan to be a financial planner in the future, I can see that this experience will potentially help my career, but Im curious as to see how I should approach this. Im sort of skeptical about this still and I want to clear my head. Since Ive already joined it, I want to try to find ways that could assist me in the firm.Assistant: Sounds like youll just be selling life insurance for a quasi MLM type company. If your plan is to be a FP, why not go to the bigger more respected names and get your licenses?Human: Im still pretty young and I guess I just want to test waters. Since I saw that this looked much like a good opportunity that I was invited to, I just guessed that it would help me get a good gist of the career that Im presently choosingAssistant: Did you have to pay to join? Human: yes  <response>: My rule of thumb is: if you have to pay to be part of a company then its a scam. 