Suze directed the Suze Orman Financial Group from 1987 to 1997 and served as vice president-investments fro Prudential Bache Securities fro 1983 to 1987, where she became a CFP professional. From 1980 to 1983, she was an account executive at Merrill Lynch and from 1973 to 1980, a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkely, California.