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Article: FINANCIAL PLANNING STUDENTS ENTER CAREER FOR DIFFERENT REASONS; From accounting to teaching, end-goals also are diverse.(Special Report: Next Generation of Advisers)
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- October 13, 2008
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Byline: Aaron Siegel
Interviews with three students in Kansas State University's financial planning program revealed that all of them had different motives for entering the profession.
Seniors Dustin Furrey and Jessica Heath each developed the desire to become financial planners after going through very different life experiences. One of the three, Samantha McGill, has even become a graduate student after finishing her financial planning degree.
Mr. Furrey's experiences in financial planning began on the battlefields of Fallujah and Ramadi.
During a tour as an Army sergeant in Iraq between September 2003 and October 2004, he counseled ...