In life there seems to be a natural order of things. For example; you crawl before you walk, eat lunch before dinner, and attend middle school before high school, etc. After I graduated high school the next step was college, and after college came grad school. To be honest I went to grad school simply because I wanted to provide a more secure future for my family. I wanted us to be able to go on vacations, spend more time together, and not have to stress about money. It was not because I loved the profession. I was looking for financial freedom and I assumed that the way to financial freedom was through more education. Some things are not as they seem.
I graduated from Logan Chiropractic with a Doctorate Degree, and landed a steady job out of school. I was not making a ton of money but it was a decent salary. We had no kids, no car payment, and my student loans were deffered for the next two years. We bought a modest home, and the only monthly payments we had were our utilities and mortgage. Things were looking good on the outside but on the inside I knew something was missing. I could not understand how after all of the schooling I went through, and all of the hard work, that we were still living paycheck to paycheck. It seemed like we were always short on money by the end of the month. It was the most frustrating time of my life. I thought to myself, how are we ever gonna get ahead like this? We had officially joined the rat race. This was not the life that I had envisioned for my family. Things were not adding up like I thought they would. That's when someone gave me the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad." Reading it changed my life completely. For the first time I realized that more education is not always the answer, it's the right kind of education that makes all the difference. My eyes were opened to the world of real estate...and our life would never be the same.
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