Just to make sure you understand this...
Your saying Edward Jones has done okay for you and yours just tells everyone else that knows anything about investing that you have no idea how awful they really are. There is no "mixed thoughts" about it; they charge obscene amounts of fees and put their clients into subpar funds that do not perform well (but pay EJ and their reps a lovely amount of money regardless) and make a point to ingratiate themselves so their clients see them as friends and don't question their horrible investment choices. They take advantage of the elderly, the uninformed and the timid investors.
Read Jim Collins' series (either get his book or read it online):
http://jlcollinsnh.com/stock-series/You don't say what your timeline is or anything, but as you're under 30 I'll direct you to another of Jim's postings regarding advice for his daughter (in her early 20s just starting out):
http://jlcollinsnh.com/2011/06/08/how-i-failed-my-daughter-and-a-simple-path-to-wealth/You can't go wrong with Vanguard, but they don't typically have any brick and mortar locations to go have a sit down with them. It usually is all over the phone/web. If you feel the need to have a real live adviser (remember advisers aren't usually your friend; they want to advise you to invest in ways that usually benefit them/their company unless they are acting as a fiduciary), you can always check out Fidelity and just make sure to stay away from any of their professionally managed funds. They do usually have reps in actual stores scattered around decent sized cities. They have a great range of low cost index funds (full disclosure, I use Fido exclusively and am very happy, but I self manage and only need to get help or questions answered occasionally).
Here is a comparison of Vanguard funds to their Fido equivalents; you can match up any Vanguard suggestion easily 99% of the time, and there is an added bonus of some of the Fido funds being a hair cheaper (they stay very competitive).
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/FidelityIf you read through the stock series and start gaining knowledge and get to feel comfortable with the idea of self managing, then Vanguard or Fidelity will serve you quite well. And of course you can always ask tons of questions on here.
Basically, it is okay to leave things alone for a little while, as you need to do some homework first. Once you figure out the basics, and get your
IPS nailed down, then you move on to your
asset allocation. At your age, if you can handle the wild ride, I also agree with radram about going 100% total market stocks in VTSMX/VTSMX (or the Fidelity equivalent). But you can't go wrong with a simple 80/20 stock/bond (lots of
lazy portfolios out there) if going 100% stocks seems too scary.
Another thing to make sure you understand and should get from the stock series - risk is not the same as volatility - the 100% stocks will be volatile for the short term, but big picture it over a few decades, and it will look MUCH nicer.
Once you get it all figured out, then you just contact Vanguard or Fido and initiate a transfer and fill out some paperwork and they handle the rest. They walk you through the whole process; you don't have to say one word to the EJ person - who might have the nerve to contact you with sour grapes "I thought we were friends!" type of guilt tripping, but that's mostly because they can't stand the idea of losing a
juicy sheep client. Feel free to ignore any of that mess. They might even hit you with a transfer or closing account fee. It's a small price to pay to get free from them. ;)
And then once it's moved, you pop the funds into your chosen asset allocation and can pretty much forget about it - just check in once a year to see if it needs rebalancing, unless you end up enjoying the ups and downs of the market. I am one of those that looks practically every day, but I also got desensitized to seeing dramatic drops or just don't bother checking on days I know the market went waaay down.
Take your time and get comfortable with the knowledge. A few months or so while you get up to speed isn't going to kill your future, and you will be VERY glad you took the time to learn how this all works and stopped bleeding fees and subpar fund performance.
I started out with zero knowledge of investing back almost 4 years ago. Like I actually said on here when I first found the place something along the lines of how scary investing seemed and how I never thought I'd get the hang of it and always would expect to be paying someone smarter than me to manage my money... and then I read that series, hung out on this forum for a year or so, read up on index investing/Bogleheads stuff and bugged the crap out of everyone here, and now I'm managing my own stuff, and have 100% confidence in my own abilities. I am the poster child for the idea of "if I can do it, anyone can" type of thinking. :)
Good luck and hope this stuff doesn't sound too overwhelming. It can seem that way at first, but it's amazing how easy it ends up being once you start untangling the threads.