Alteryx does not allow you to directly read a date from a flat-file. You have to read date fields as strings. In the example I show below, I had 34 date fields in the flat-file that all were stored in the format of mmddyyyy. Each date is precisely 8 characters wide.
Continuing Education. Including college education, the amount of time it takes to become a full-fledged financial advisor is about five years. However, studying and education does not stop at the point the advisor becomes licensed and begins setting up his business. Instead, financial advisor training is an ongoing process.
By Matthew Heimer. The average American worker is in somewhere between ages 35 and 44, but the financial-advice industry is, shall we say, considerably more gray. Among the 300,000 or so full-time financial advisers, the average age is about 50, and 21% are over 60, according to a report from consulting firm Accenture. That means that if youâre a boomer, thereâs a not-insignificant chance that your golfing-buddy-slash-investment-coach will retire before you do.