Pros
There is flexibility in your schedule, because you aren't really an employee of Northwestern Mutual (Unless you are in the Milwaukee building) you are either an independent contractor or a Staff member to one of the thousands of independent brokers who contract with NWM.
Cons
Northwestern Mutual is a Life Insurance company, you will be asked to sell life insurance primarily. This is a commission job, there is no salary, so you need to sell insurance unless you are independently wealthy. Northwestern Mutual is as close to a multi-level marketing scheme as you can get. From how the "Advisors" make up the individual offices that feed into networks that feed into the central office; it is a big pyramid. They have profoundly disturbing and deceiving recruitment practices, grossly over inflate the earning potential, and never mention their abysmal retention rates. The only “Financial Advising” going on is agents trying to convince their own friends that they need 7 million in life insurance or else they do not love their family.