Depending how much you earn you can step up those savings by getting a side-hustle in any part of real estate....working for a top Real Estate office on weeknights and weekends, working for an RE Investor, working for a General Contractor and learning a few skills, etc.

Sounds like you have quite a wide variety of skills that will serve you well in this arena.

If you're dialing 100+ people a day and not coming out with 2-3 solid conversations per day after a week, then change the tools, but in my experience its usually the skill of the caller, so get dialing because the only way to get better is through practice.The good news: once you get some traction and close deals, you can hire a VA cold caller to do most of the grunt work and focus on the handraisers and nurturing them.

Well his boss was impressed with my real estate and finance skills so I ended up working for their company well it turned out their company was wholesaling houses they didn’t really flip many homes.

Very amateurish as far as skill level and endurance, but it is a start.

It's a path that aligns with my skills and circumstances, but I could use some advice on how to get started effectively.If you were in my position, where would you begin?

It sounds like you have a contractor that either is in over his head (skill wise or help wise) if money is not the issue. 

My strongest abilities are math skills, work ethic and goal oriented. 

He either has very poor social skills or he just doesn't give a dime about people once they paid.If you have paid the "Apprentice" program you will be eventually invited to spend some time with Phil some weekends, and play poker, smoke cigars and stuff like that, if you are into that, and some "private" events of the kind.

Depending how much you earn you can step up those savings by getting a side-hustle in any part of real estate....working for a top Real Estate office on weeknights and weekends, working for an RE Investor, working for a General Contractor and learning a few skills, etc.