Starting out Post College

[Payton Deeter]

I am graduating college in May with a bachelor's in finance. I currently hold my real estate license and am wanting to get into investing. With that, I know it will be important for me to hold a w2 to help build initial capital and increase attraction for banks to hopefully get loans. I am having a hard time knowing what kind of job to pursue or where to even begin to look. I am curious to hear any input for investors that are still working full time, or investors that left their 9-5 to pursue full time investing. I would love to hear any recipe you encountered to help balance work life and investing life. Thanks in advance!

[Greg R.]

Congratulations, sounds like your headed in the right direction. IMO, finance is a great field to work in. There's a ton of opportunities across almost every industry and a very high ceiling. If you can work your way up to CFO (even in a small/ medium business), you're going to be very well off. 

I've worked full time since I began in RE over 10 years ago. Personally I haven't had the desire to work as a RE investor full time. I enjoy my job (tech), and the people that I work with. 

Plus, multiple streams of income. If you can maintain a good W2 job and strong investments, you have one additional income source than FT investors. That's just my take, I'm sure that there are some FT investors who couldn't have been as successful as they've become while working a W2.