I also have customer-facing experience that often had me leading meetings with C-level executives over the last 2 years, as well.

A bank or credit union will often provide mortgages to customers and keep them in their personal portfolio. 

Any reputable business allows customers to do something different at any time, for any reason, or no reason at all.  

I’ve read in a few places that it would be significantly less to use off the shelf rather than paying for custom.

According to CordCutterNews.com, the average Comcast customer pays $158.00 per month plus $54 in fees, for a total of $212.00/month (https://tinyurl.com/ycf7hscl).

You are taking a loan personally from your plan, and then you are investing in real estate.Truly self-directed IRA and Solo 401(k) plans are offered by specialty providers who can create a custom 401(k) for your business that is capable of investing in anything the IRS rules allow for - which includes a lot more that just stocks, such as real estate, private mortgage notes, cryptocurrencies, precious metals, venture capital ...   

I might not use those exact skills in my area, but it taught me to think (business) “business structure, know your numbers do your homework” and also (design) “how do people think, react, involve emotion, how do you stimulate that, create certain feeling, interact with people and put yourself in their shoes) General studies has a stigma that you can’t do anything else so you picked that, but that’s changing and that degree lets you customize your classes to what will work best for you.

My experiences with managers are only as a customer. 

I'm just a very satisfied customer!

I really don’t want to get them on the phone an make it seem like I don’t know what I’m talking about or I’m not a serious customer just because I’m new.