Another blog has inspired me to post the question... WHY do you do what you do? How did you get started? Here's my story...
I have had an interest in Real Estate for many years. I actually have always been house crazy- I fall in love with nearly every house I walk in to, honestly! I've always been the creative sort and my first love was interior design but through life circumstances never made it to college to specifically do that on a large scale level. I did have a small interior design business a few years ago but gave my time away too much:(
I worked for the last 6 years with my husband running a technology consulting company. We have had a really bad 9-10 months and if it was bad and could happen, most of it did. We had a manager in our company take some serious advantage and was dishonest about jobs completed, progress made, etc and we lost most all of our clients. Prior to that, I had found out I had a tumor on my intestines and on our individual ins. policy it fell under a pre-existing condition so my husband took a job that had good insurance and no pre-existing clause so that I would be able to have surgery. I depended on this other person to help keep things going... bad decision. Within 6 months we were facing foreclosure after trying with no avail to sell our house we could no longer afford. The whole ordeal inspired me to pursue a long time dream of helping others buy and sell their homes. Months later, I have been through 2 surgeries, lost my dad and had to go back to work at a "regular" job to help pay the bills but I finally managed to get my Real Estate license! I actually did it correspondence while I was bedridden from my last surgery. :)
Why do I work as a real estate agent? This is my dream. I do it because I LOVE it. I liked working with my husband, but it was never what I loved. I work two full time jobs in order to make this work. Three nights a week, I work a 12 hour shift at the hospital and often times have appointments to keep the next morning so sometimes I will be up for 24 hours before sleeping. Sunday I worked 5 hours to do an open house and had 30 minutes between it and going to the hospital to do my other job. My family thinks I am crazy! :) Maybe so- but my husband supports me in this endeavor 100%. He sees the passion I have for it. So do I and I know I am going to do great. I had a fellow call me Sunday evening while I was at my second job- he met me at the open house. Turns out he owns 5 properties, one lake front.... wants to sell and wants to buy another. Think it was worth the sacrifice!
Tell me why you do what you do! How'd you get there?
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