There are plenty of people who have been able to start a career with nothing more than drive and a dream so I'll let them post how they did it however I'd wager that they are the minority and the hard situation is this is a cash intensive business. 

Beyond that, I want to invest in the communities I grew up playing basketball and going to school.

It’s fun but not with the dollar per hour trade offI would go for non crop items   Very labor intensive.  

If your earnest money / deposit is not intense, you may want to rethink this deal.

Is not rocket science but it is very labor intensive it also depends of how good of a job you want on it.

There's something intensely satisfying about discovering new places and roads you didn't know exist.

Worth and it was much more cost and labor intensive than projected.

Land entitlement and development is very capital intensive.

For myself, short-term rentals have yielded better financial returns than single-family rentals from my duplex, however it is much more labor intensive.

Buy, Renovate....it is a capital intensive strategy, that those with a few hundred grand liquid can implement.