Beyond Bigger Pockets- Real estate education fundamentals

[Joseph Greene]

Hello everyone. 

As someone who is completely new to the expansiveness of this particular industry, I want to say how lucky I am to have stumbled on to this forum.

Three years ago, as my oldest daughter was nearing her high school graduation, I decided to re-enroll in college and pursue the degree that I put on hold some 20 years ago when she was born. I very well could have worked and gone to school, but I was always the type of student who did just enough to pass, so I decided to double up as a worker bee instead and school got out on the backburner for about, oh, 20 years ☺

I am proud to say that I have since finished my first stretch of 'higher education' and I am ready for round two. This has led me to a crossroads as this concept has really begun fascinating me. 

I was initially going to go back and pursue my bachelors in business management but, as I started reading articles about buying and fixing up properties, I began to reconsider the possibility of getting more experience in residential construction. 

Regardless of which direction I choose first, I see merits to both. My question to you all is, mindset aside (tenacity, persistence, creativity, networking, optimism, etc.) what type of educational background seems best suited to successful real estate investors? Are they good at number crunching? Are they hands-on and mechanical? Are they degreed or are they graduates from the School of Hard Knocks? 

Obviously, I know there is no singular answer better than the next, but I'd really like to know so that I can lay the groundwork for what steps to take next in pursuit of my goals while minimizing time 'wasted' during this learning curve.

Thanks in advance!