Why Trying to Be a Loan Officer (that is, Sell Mortgages) Is Especially Grim … and why pursuing a career in home loans is pretty much doomed to failure. I gave the mortgage industry — the whole loan originator gig — a serious go of it a few years back. That was just before the entire real estate market melted down. But even then, I knew after about six months that it just wasn’t for me. And as it worked out, I ditched just before thousands of loan officers were driven out by the economic collapse. It’s odd, really, that
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