And if you were lucky enough to keep your job, and *silly* enough to keep paying for your house...you got caught holding the bag.

If it's clearly something where you went out and grabbed something off the shelf at Target and threw it in a bag, don't bother.

Currently a Broadcast Engineer primarily working in sports television but also do many entertainment shows.

I still do the sport card wholesaling (no business partner anymore).

The big players in the game will do everything they can to make sure they don’t get stuck holding the bag.

It's a real nice tool to have in the bag.

@Michael LoweJust like any job or sport only a small percentage are successful.

Added to these problems are small business' closing, kids not going to school, no children sports being played, not as many family gatherings, not as many people eating out, hotel stays, travel, and the list goes on and on.

Personally, I loved college, but I went more for sports than for school and if I were to do it again, I would have made some different choices.Thing 1: some states require college degree for your brokers license so check on that (though nothing wrong with associates or community college while working as an agent)Thing 2: some of my 17 yo decisions were pretty stupid, so I would suggest taking a step back and evaluating.

Skew the numbers a bit to make it "harder" essentially. 2019's numbers are safer to use, 2020 and especially 2021 were outliers. 2022 I believe is somewhere in the middle - but there's lots of people holding the bag, because you could've bought anything in 2020/2021 and it went up, stocks, RE, used cars etc.