The free CMAs that @Brad Miller recommended are a great idea since it's excellent practice for you, and offers proof to your sphere and new connections that you have skills and knowledge to help them.Stick to a schedule like you would with a 9 to 5 until you can afford more flexibility. 

Being in healthcare, it provides an unique skill set to being a REI.

Sometimes people will phase into and out of jobs or careers and to be honest sometimes the skill sets needed from certain roles will change at the different levels you will be operating at along your journey.Remember the person you are today, and the people you are around will most likely not be the people you are around when you become your future self of who you want to become.It is always important to assess and reassess the people on your team as well as the people in your life.

More will depend on your skill level, risk tolerance, and amount of time involvement you can commit than the actual nature of any specific asset type.

RE seems daunting at the beginning, but the whole thing can be summarized as knowing very simple calculations, understanding a market, becoming familiar with some legalities and taxes, and expanding your skills to manage it. 

I was just saying that I was long retired before you came on so I'm not looking for a new activity or skill Set.Spammed- since I reluctantly agreed to be in the magazine my submission form for sellers has been auto filled by bots is all.

The mortgage broker was so skilled in finding a house for us within a week.

Despite lots of talk about “working on your business, not in your business”, “the 4 hour workweek”, and setting up “systems” that allow the business to “run itself”, the reality is (1) very few people have the knowledge, ability and managerial skill to successfully scale a business let alone turn a business into “passive” income.

Certainly you've developed the skill of being able to glance to see if it is "urgent" or can wait.

Good organizational skills, attention to detail, critical thinking, and being able to communicate are the ones that come to mind.