Starting Out At 18 Years Old

[Vincent Burruss]

I am 18 and still in high school living in northern California, I work a slightly above minimum wage job (~$30,000 annually before taxes) and live with my parents (so living is cheap, i.e. no utilities to pay). So far I am just learning about investing by reading books and watching videos. I am wondering how to start my journey off, do I get a better paying job so I can invest more per year, do I flip houses first then rely on monthly cash flow from rentals, or risk becoming a real estate agent by not being able to make due just to get certain advantages like MLS. My goal is to achieve around a $15,000 a month net cash flow semi passively before I turn 30. Having a hard time solving this problem with my lack of mentorship, with how much different investors contradict each other and how the average house in my small city is well above $300,000.