I had run into hiccups of education gaps and uncertainty and your post gives so good avenues to explore.You may have noticed but I have joined the millionare possibilities, okc entrepreneur group and real estate investing group on meetup.comI also am planning on attending the failing forward presentation.

I realized that I would never be happy as an employee and that I had the mind of an entrepreneur/investor.

I am coming at this as an entrepreneur who has identified land that can be developed.

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No giant company, no faceless corporation. 99% of sellers would rather work with a solo entrepreneur who is hustling, than some mega firm who is making millions already. 

Banks are risk adverse, entrepreneurs take on risk.

Most college course work is to train you to become an employee, not a savvy investor or entrepreneur (at least at my University)

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He says don't worry about it.I know what he does.He hates his job so he goes out to eat and goes to the bar and blows his money all the time.I find the more money I make my circle of friends changes.The ones making more money generally balance the budget and have a different mindset than people living paycheck to paycheck.Sometimes I will work with my business until 1 in the morning.I do it because of the freedom and happiness it gives me knowing I control my own destiny.Companies now want you to do the work of 2 to 3 people for the pay of one.If you are working that hard you might as well own the business and get ALL the money.Some people their whole lives is work week to week and collect a pay check.It's all they ever aspire to.I have always been different.I have always been an entrepreneur and love to imagine and create things and push the envelope.On the venting I just go yeah,yeah with family and then I change the subject on them.If they still want to be negative I set a time limit on it.I say okay we will talk about it for the next 5 minutes but after that we are moving on.What I find is even if you show people HOW to change their lives they do not have the will to do it or the courage.What's worse than failing is to never have tried in the first place.If you want something bad enough YOU WILL find a way.

I can honestly say there are many investors in the Portland market (some right here on BP) who have benefited and continue to benefit from the experiences I share both as an appraiser and as RE entrepreneur.