Career Shift to Amplify Education in Real Estate Investing

[Cameron Daste]

Hi All - 

Looking for recommendations on a career shift to speed up my education in real estate investing. My background is in analytics and have worn a couple of different hats in the space - sales compensation, business performance / reporting, COGS management, and opportunity / risk evaluation and implementation.

Real estate investing is the first topic in a long time - maybe ever - in which I've been truly interested in learning more. So, I figured a career shift to something I'm more passionate about could only help with my goals of having success in the space down the road. 

What career choices would you propose for someone in my position that would help bolster my learning? Mortgage lending? Property management? Investment analysis? And would also love any recommendations on how to get into these areas.

Thanks in advance!

-Cameron

[Cameron Daste]

To be clear, I'm thinking I would do the above for several years while building my portfolio and learning, and then solely focus on my portfolio once I'm established and am generating enough income to live off of.

[Drew Sygit]

Property management

[Yanina Panfilenka]

Quote from @Cameron Daste:

To be clear, I'm thinking I would do the above for several years while building my portfolio and learning, and then solely focus on my portfolio once I'm established and am generating enough income to live off of.

Hi Cameron, 
You don't know until you try. Learn along the way and check what you are passionate about and how you'd like to contribute. Each and every area might need a fresh look and improvement. BP library gives a huge boost into the knowledge area which is pretty much sufficient to get comfortable in investing and help find a sweet spot where you could use your background to shift the area. 
We were struggling/ hated hours spent on potential profitability of the purchase in all the calculators by copypasting, and using background in tech created rei-lense.com to get all the numbers on the spot which saves so much time! You can do the same, find the pain point and solve it.