I don't know how it works where you are, but here, the vast majority of financial advisors aren't certified financial planners. Here, I believe that path requires years of experience combined with quite a bit of coursework.
The basic securities course took me a few days to complete and taught me very little of any value.
I am *not* a financial advisor, I took the course mostly out of interest. I do, however, work for a financial firm, but I don't sell anything, so the firm doesn't bother with me being licensed.
Doing the course itself doesn't license me to do anything, it qualifies me to work for a brokerage that can license me, so unless I want to start selling securities, the course is utterly worthless beyond a general interest perspective, and it's pretty lean on any kind of info of value to me. It's more about regulations than anything else. In no way did it make me feel better equipped to advise anyone on their personal finances.
This makes sense to me as I know a number of low-level financial advisors who know shit about personal finance. They're just mutual fund sales people.
The path to becoming a really highly qualified financial planner is more of a career path than an educational path. My financial planner/dear friend is one of these top level professionals with a bank, and hers is not the kind of expertise you get from just course work, although she has completed about every course there is, but that's over decades of her career.
This is why personal finance people don't really do this. The industry isn't really set up for professional-level investment hobbyists.
Now, go ahead and take the basic securities course if you want to. It's easy, not expensive, and really does invoke a certain degree of trust in your financial knowledge, but only to people who truly know nothing about personal finance.
The bigger benefit is that it shuts up the entry-level financial advisor idiots you occasionally meet at parties who try to claim to be investment experts and use social events to try and recruit clients.
"Why would I give you a cut when I have the exact same education as you do?"
If what you want to do is be qualified to give people advice on how to manage their personal finances and have it as a casual part time job, then you could look into becoming a personal finance coach. Again, there isn't really a specific educational path to follow, and you would still need to have personal experience and expertise from somewhere, but this is probably far more in line with what you want to do, then getting yourself a job selling investment products.