W-2 or start a career as an agent with the aspirations to invest

[Alex Rojesky]

Recently I've developed the growing passion of real estate in all aspects. Over my handful of months of reading and research I've set the goal of making my first investment in a year and a half. I've set out two paths I'm weighing the pros and cons on. 1. My current position, I am 23 years old and my occupation is welding. As you can imagine, my income isn't as much as say an engineer.. I make an average income. I can either take the next year to save, save, save, keep my w-2 job and invest. 2. Like I mentioned before I have developed a passion for all aspects of real estate and am currently in the process of diving deep with research in becoming an agent. Now becoming an agent could set back the investing time period due to the uncertainties of a real estate agents first year, but It is something I feel would be a huge benefit for future investing aspirations. Open to all thoughts and opinions!