Cashier · Panama City, FL · Member since 2015 · 14 posts · 6 votes
Real estate agent? Accountant? Grocery store manager? Pizza delivery guy?
Just out of curiosity, what was your job before you decided (or were able) to live off your investments? Doesn't matter how high/low paying or unrelated the job was, I want to know! :)
I read an article somewhere from a successful entepeneur that we are all given three major business opportunities / or career changes in our life time and it is our job to identify what they are or capture that opportunity. I guess my three careers may look something like this.
Career #1 (Past) (20s - 30s) I worked as a business consultant for Accenture in the bay area and LA., then I realized that the W2 world wasn't for me so started my first S Corp with my partner in India. We developed an ecommerce platform developed in .net technology and we would implement this platform for our clients. It was fun while it lasted until much cheaper php platform solutions like Magento came out in the market.
Career #2 (Full time broker and investor - I guess I am here now. ) - ( Present ( early30s - late 40s)
Career #3 - (Future retirement career I would like to have in my 50s
Owner of an Investment firm / Hedge Fund / Wealth Advisory that utilizes all of my investment knowledge, research and strategies for both real estate and the financial markets. I would also like to write a book someday about my investment philosophy and publish my research.
Soon to be retired from information systems. I've been in it long enough that I still Have my student programs on punch cards (80-column "Hollerith"). I'm only one of a few hundred still alive who do what I do ("legacy" systems - OpenVMS).
Also was a liturgical musician for 40+ years, amateur musician, did HVAC back in the chlorinated halo-carbon days, did pro-audio, ran a recording studio briefly (I was otherwise out of work most of 1985), have done community college telecourse broadcasting, TV production (camera, audio, editing), low-voltage wiring systems. 50+ years experience public speaking including business presentations, international technical symposia and liturgical settings.
Management consulting at PwC (Big 4) and currently working for Home Depot corporate, saving up money for the first few houses before eventually using OPM (other peoples money) to scale more easily.
@Stuart Birdsong Guide life is just not easy on family life until you kids at the age of 18 ask, "so how do you become a guide Dad?" Best moment of this year!
Nuclear Pharmacist. My pharmacist license is still current but I only work a dozen or so shifts annually, mostly in home infusion pharmacies, to help long term colleagues.
I read an article somewhere from a successful entepeneur that we are all given three major business opportunities / or career changes in our life time and it is our job to identify what they are or capture that opportunity. I guess my three careers may look something like this.
Career #1 (Past) (20s - 30s) I worked as a business consultant for Accenture in the bay area and LA., then I realized that the W2 world wasn't for me so started my first S Corp with my partner in India. We developed an ecommerce platform developed in .net technology and we would implement this platform for our clients. It was fun while it lasted until much cheaper php platform solutions like Magento came out in the market.
Career #2 (Full time broker and investor - I guess I am here now. ) - ( Present ( early30s - late 40s)
Career #3 - (Future retirement career I would like to have in my 50s
Owner of an Investment firm / Hedge Fund / Wealth Advisory that utilizes all of my investment knowledge, research and strategies for both real estate and the financial markets. I would also like to write a book someday about my investment philosophy and publish my research.
Your posts are always extremely insightful, and you have tons and tons of data. I truly appreciate your knowledge and have definitely learned a lot from simply reading about what you have to say. Big thanks.
I was a property manager of an apartment building. Now I'm a stay-at-home mompreneur. I own a cleaning business and am just getting started as a Realtor in Connecticut.
My husband and I will be buying another property next year.
Still plugging away on my day job with FedEx Freight. Hopefully my 10 year 10 Rental Homes payoff plan works. I have 9 more years of delivering packages to go... Lol
I was a chef for the Milwaukee Brewers before deciding to become a realtor and real estate investor. Had to make the jump to get some control of my life back!
I am extremely impressed with how this forum turned out. This is my most popular. Didn't think I'd see one of mine in the featured posts! Thank you all for chiming in.
Well, sort of. I am a published author in the field of Martial Arts & Self-Defense. I had my own gym for 10 years, where I taught everyone from "folks who just want to be a little safer" to others who wanted to be the next Ultimate Fighting Champion. It was wonderful and rewarding and I did a lot of work with my local community (including offering a free weekly class to the public every week for seven years!).
I sold the business in 2012 because I got an offer to return to Professional Ballroom Dancing. I did, and I worked as a staff trainer, instructor, competitor, and performer until a torn ligament in my ankle sidelined me.
I spent the first half of 2015 at a desk because of the injury, but it was doing marketing, communications, and systems development for a wonderful design-build firm that wins awards for their net zero homes. I absolutely loved it there.
I've left that to be a full-time investor. But now that I've been cleared by my orthopedist, I'm also getting back into shape to do more Ballroom Dance competition and train more fighters ;)
Property Manager (residential and commercial) - 10 yrs! I got into that field hoping to learn as much as I could before jumping in--just took my time learning and accumulating before making the leap.