What did you guys do for a living when starting out?

[Jason Lee]

Greetings BP!

I'm new to the real estate community and i'm looking to getting into real estate investing. From what i have concluded, real estate investing takes quite a long period of time before you start to see actual high profit returns. What did all you successful BP investors do for a living before you hit that success stage? I own a few restaurants and I can honestly say that I'm not use to seeing slow and timed cash flow every month.

[Bryan L.]

I was an engineer. Masters degree and all that with over 15 years of experience. Mostly product design/development in big-corporate-world. I walked away from it in '07 to go full-time RE. That lasted for 3 years until the market crash caught up with me. Went back into cubicle-world full-time for two more years, until that company was nice enough to lay me off. For the last year I've been 1/2-time engineer with a small firm and 1/2-time RE.