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Juan Erick Rico Avalos
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I NEED YOUR ADVICE! DROP OUT OF SCHOOL?

Juan Erick Rico Avalos
  • New to Real Estate
  • Lincoln, NE
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Hey, I aM 19 I have been going to trade school for a year and a half now. I still have a year left, for the past 6 months I have been obsessed  with real estate investing i love the idea. I can't stop listening to podcasts, reading forums and books on this topic I really do think its my passion. I am so passionate about this that I can't stop thinking about real estate investing and what a great opportunity it really is. My problem is that I have realized that I no longer wanna be a welder it doesn't intreg me as much as real estate. I go to school in the morning and work a fulltime job as a security officer at a hospital. I am so far into welding tho that I don't wanna to just leave it just like that. It feels like i've wasted a whole year and a half of my life. I instead wanna start applying for leasing consultant jobs in my local area. This would be a morning job which is when I have school. So I feel stuck, I know I need money (in most cases I know there  no money down deals but can be hard to find) to invest and welding could provide that for me but now i feel miserable when i'm at school doing something i don't wanna do. Being a lease consultant would give me a lot of knowledge on real estate but this would mean switching career paths. Being a leasing consultant sounds like something i would enjoy but at the same time maybe i would like it then that's next. I feel like i am over complicating things but it hard for me because ever since i was in school school i wanted to be a pipeline welder but reading rich dad poor dad really opened my eyes. What other careers would be good to get into real estate? I really appreciate your advice and thank you for your time tell me the hard truth. 

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You have a fulltime job as a security officer and are almost done with school for welding, which is a very solid niche business that isn't going away with technology to my knowledge and you want to pitch those to do agent work or leasing consultant working on commission? NO. You can do all of what you want while doing the jobs that will give you your own money to invest.

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