Vantaggi
As a financial Advisor, the other FAs in your region really do care about your success. The payouts are quite competitive, and the company is very stable (as opposed to all the publicly-traded companies in the field that are liable to be bought out by a competitor at any moment).
Svantaggi
It's hard to feel good about selling mediocre investments. It's no coincidence that low-cost index funds are taking a larger and larger portion of mutual fund assets. In short, your chances of beating a low-cost index fund with an active fund are *very* slim. Unfortunately, Edward Jones senior management has managed to ignore this fact for over three decades now. If you work at Ed Jones, selling active funds with sales loads is your only option. (Aside from selling individual stocks and bonds, which is even more irresponsible.) Essentially, working as a FA at Jones makes you a salesperson selling a mediocre array of investment products. If you want to provide a high level of service to your clients, you'll have to go elsewhere.