Choices

[John Payne]

My wife and I are both active duty military and I'm getting ready to transition out of the military in a year while my wife stays in. We have two kids, so side hustling with two kids under 4 isn't fair to them (that's the priority we have chosen). Many personal and professional decisions went into this thought process, which brings me to my current question surrounding my choices and I'm looking for a little advice or options that have not cross my mind. We currently live on the Central Coast of California and will be here for another 3 years. I want to get a job within the real estate industry for a multitude of reasons, but the overall goal is to get the foot in the door to learn as much as possible while having the flexibility to build my own investment company in order to not have to work for someone else. My choices 1) Real Estate Agent (schedule flexibility but odd hours at times) 2) Work for property manager with a realty component (less income but a lot of good info to learn) 3) work for software company specializing in real estate needs-successful and established company (longer commute, but access to big data, analysis, multitude of companies to work with) 4) something I haven't thought of bc you're probably smarter than I am Obviously, there are numerous factors and unknowns, so in just looking to get a little discussion Thanks!