Okay, so this is my entry into Patricia Feager and Nick Vandekar's September Challenge. The challenge was deceptively simple, and deceptively challenging. Write a story using only 53 words, no more, no less. And then in 300 words or more, tell us about your approach to the challenge and how you went about it.
The hardest part, at least for me, was to write in only 53 words. I learned, back in college, that my problem was to learn how to write succinctly. I tended to lean toward verbosity, and it often took many drafts to shorten my papers down to a lean few pages that my professors would accept. So submitting a draft of only 53 words was pure torture.
I reached down deep back to a short poem that resonated with me from my childhood... Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, and I loosely based my story on that poem.
I wrote it about my struggle when I first switched from my job in the printing business, and went into real estate cold turkey. Clearly I didn't delve very deep, but once I made the switch to this "road less travelled", I have never looked back, and honestly wish I'd found this path much sooner.
I transitioned into real estate part-time, keeping one foot in the print shop, and working 7:00-1:00 and then working in real estate from 1:00 until late in the evenings... as well as Saturday and Sunday. My first year I held open houses each and every Sunday, except for my birthday weekend. Those open houses introduced me to new buyers and I had a very good first year, proving to myself that I could make a living in this newfound business, and was able to shut down the original business completely at the end of that first year and jump into real estate with both feet as a full-
time agent.
To paraphrase Garrett Morris "Real Estate be berry, berry good to me".
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