I Believe In Faking It Till You Make It

I don’t know if this is a tactic that should be applauded, but it works. Let’s say you are fresh out of high school, and you’re smart enough not to go straight to college. You spend the next four years getting educated for the billions of online sources that we all of access of on our phones. During those four years you get to experience the real world and discover who you really are. You get a job doing something enjoyable making somewhere between 700 to 1,000 dollars a month. At this point you have four years to build credit, buy a handful of luxuries, a vehicle, and find a rent to own or foreclosure to buy. Realisticly the last one isn’t going to happen if you live in a blue state where property prices are at least doubled. So let’s forget that and look at the others. If you are slightly materialistic and want to own one or two nice watches and maybe another piece of jewelry you’ll budget out the bare minimum on gas and food and save the rest for one item. You’ll rinse and repeat this until you own all the material things you want. This is another step easily skipped for some people. During this time you want to take loan after loan once one is paid off after six months take another this money can be used for anything the only purpose in these loans is to build trust and accountability with one or two banks in your home town. Personally using these loans for traveling would be my choice. Four years down the road you’ll be 22 with a place of your own depending on your local market, a car thats no older than 4 years, a strong credit score, and a handful of materialistic items if you want them. While the kids you graduated with are getting out of college with large student loan debt looking for a job while you’re four years into one job. Now you want to find a higher paying job. This will be a good time to enroll in college if you have a degree in mind, or find a trade school. The problem with going to school at 18 is most people don’t even know who they are and have very little real world experience. Those four years out of high school are the most important of your life. This is a time to get your feet off the ground, have a couple vacation to look back on, own nice jewelry, have a small place of your own you’re not throwing money away on for rent, and a car that’s newer than 5 years. You have discovered yourself and are ready to continue your education. The biggest mistake most people including me makes is going to college straight out of high school. I only went to community college before realizing this and I dropped out. I’m a co-owner of a real estate investment group and still working that beginners job. If I had went town this path at 18 and not 20 I’d be in a much better position in life right now. I’d probably enroll at a university next fall to major in financing or a related major. But I wasted two years in school and it’s held me back. The day you graduate high school if you wrote down what you define as success and make a list of each thing and work toward accomplishing one goal at a time, you become successful no matter your situation.