Careers to pick up experience for investing

[Isaac Ballew]

I'm about to graduate college with a finance degree, I'm looking to get into real estate and possibly flipping houses. What are some careers paths or jobs that allow me to pick up experience that will help in real estate investing while working for someone else? 

[Greg Kurzner]

@Isaac Ballew I graduated back in the stone age with a finance degree and found my way eventually in Real Estate after some corporate jobs.  Honestly there are several career paths that will help (Renovation contractor, real estate agent, corporate RE analyst)  but depending upon whether you are looking for a career investing/flipping versus using your W-2 career income to build more by flipping, you can approach it better in my opinion by learning through doing.

Flipping especially 1 at a time isn't a full time job and my thought is that you get help on your first, maybe first few flips.  Whether partner, mentor or coach, you can learn on the job and there aren't many careers that equip you better for this than just doing it.  We work with many new investors fresh out of college on the brokerage side but also coach and mentor new and aspiring investors learn by doing.  That is the best and fastest way in and as long as you have experienced help, you will learn by doing far faster than aligning a career to help you learn.