Having a good paying job helps fund purchases and it helps being in the real estate profession.

I tried my hand at stock trading when I was 18. very hard profession and needs a ton of Hindsight.

First, lawyers are as varied as salespeople or realtors, or any other profession.  

I'm a financial planner by profession so you'd think the default answer is, "heck yeah, always hire a planner!"  

Like objectively bad compared to people in other professions.

I average that day trading momentum stocks pre market daily and I’m not a trader by profession.  

Fortunately, those skills can be generalized from one profession to another.4.

Sales is absolutely a skill, just like any other profession. 

When you talk to the CPA they should be able to help you strategy because having rentals in conjunction with active trader income while being a full time real estate profession opens up unlimited passive losses to you so you can pay a much lower or no income tax. 

In any other profession, a license makes us feel warm and fuzzy like this pro we are dealing with knows what they are doing.