In the early 1970's when I should have been preparing for my future earnings while at college I wasn't interested. I just never really liked to study. So I didn't. Explaining to my parents that this was all a waste I returned to Atlanta.

Once again I tried to go back and get an education but I just well I don't like school. So I went to a trade school and took up automotive. A one year course and I was out and working on cars. Hot nasty wet greasy cars. It was horrible. I spent all day killing myself and as it worked out hurting your hands as well. I then went home and spent half the night trying to clean the crud off my hands only to have to go back at it the next day.

Welding is great money so I took a class at the local technical school and a year later graduated as a welder. Well, they don't tell you that you catch on fire all the time. Yes I wasn't going home with black greasy hands but with tiny little burns on myself. I really wish I had gone back to college at that time and just did what I needed to do and got a degree.

I did go back and started taking classes on weekends but I just couldn't get into it.School was the same as when I was attending college out of state. Go to class and then study well you know most everyone has gone to college.

Later on I knocked around jobs trying to figure it out and got into computers. Worked for one of the first dealer brokers in Atlanta for years. Went from a warehouse employee to a refurbishing employee to an operations manager. Worked there for years then much like the computers of today that company ended. I spent the next ten years in and out of that business then started my own business in 1985 involved in the computers.

Employees drove me crazy but I enjoy sales and am good at it. It was tough finding good employees to work up the ladder. I had to do this so why shouldn't they. My inventory of free equipment was endless of great computer towers and laptops and I was able to make the sales and make money. I ended up with employees that were lazy and stole from me. My business was such a struggle that I began to get distressed so I closed it.

In the small used computer business there are so many thieves. The thieves steal from you in so many ways all over Atlanta. I could easily name a half a dozen right off the bat without even thinking about. They would deny it but they know they are the bad guys. 

It just doesn't have to be that way. I don't think so at least. They do not honor contracts they are more likely to walk on a contract or end their company because odds are if they stole from say me then there is another dozen people all over the city that stole from others as well.

I made errors but always having to protect yourself and never ever trusting anyone I think sucks.

I own a building and I got it leased out for two years so my retirement is safe.

I closed my business with a fair amount of debt and am trying to dig out.

I am not sure I can now months later. I just don't know even to this date if I can survive. 

The decision to become a real estate agent in Atlanta was an easy choice. I can make the sales and I do not have to depend on anyone other than myself. No one will steal the homes and using contracts everything will be a fairly safe endeavor.

The real state market is in my mind a wonderful way to make a living. Yes it will be hard but the homes are available and if you have credit and a down payment then with the interest rates as low as they are it is a no brainer. We have Atlanta condos, houses, town homes, ranches, split levels, colonial we have everything. Atlanta is a great area to be in and I want to get into real estate so bad. We have old homes we have new homes. Old condos and new condos. We will even soon have Trump Towers.

I am trying to pass a real estate test and to me it is the toughest test I have ever taken. I went to the class and studied as I went along and failed the local test. The second time I passed it and now I have to take the state exam to get a license.

I did not pass it the first time.

I did not pass it the second time.

I have a tough time at this and I have to pass it or bad things will begin to happen to me in my life. It is tough but once I get this down pat I will do well. I work hard and long hours. I am honest and do the work I must to get the sale that doesn't bother me. I actually enjoy the work setting everything up to make the sale.

I can make all the phone calls I need to................... to get the business. I can sell myself and get the business that isn't a problem. I have learned over the years that if you are honest and work hard you will succeed. My business was a success it was the employees that drove me out of my mind.

Well I am back to book learning and studying and trying harder than I have ever tried before to pass this test. I am a success I just have a tough time studying and passing tests.

My father passed away a few years ago and I am selling a cabin in the North Georgia mountains and that is enough cash to keep me and my life afloat for a year. I will be able to pay all the debts I have and get my life back in order. I will still be sadly unemployed and not in the real estate business that I really want to be in.

I am so bummed that I never learned how to study and take tests that I could cry. I just don't know what to do. I have gone to the cabin every weekend for the past two months getting it ready to sell and it will take me another four weeks or so. I have seven people that are seriously interested in it so once I am done the sale will happen within a week after that.

The sad thing is that I still will be unemployed and I want to get into real estate. I tried the third test today and about half way though it I realized that I wasn't going to pass it. I missed it by two questions. I scored a 73.4 and the test last week was a 74.3.

I failed the test last week by one question and this week by two questions. Sound panicked well yes I am. It is happening to me and I have to get passed this or my little world will come crashing down around me.

Took the test after three months of making some money and scored a 66.7.

This isn't a funny story or a story about how to tie your shoes. It is not about lots of things it is about what is going on right now. I will leave tomorrow afternoon to paint the cabin all weekend. I will return Sunday night.

The plan is to go up and back to the cabin every day next week until I finish the cabin.

Finished the cabin.

The summer ended and I tried to actually learn how to study and then to study.

Took the test and my score was a 71.0

I took the real estate class again and studied at studying. I tried and tried and once the class was over I studied for two weeks got a 73.7.

 I read the chapter on Georgia Law almost two days. I work the math problems over and over and I guess this is how someone studies I am not sure I didn't ask anyone.

Well, I am actually very excited but the past two weeks I really have studied. 

I took the test the day before yesterday and passed with a 77.0. I got 6 to 8 questions correct more than any of the others tests. I am so happy I just can't stand it. I wrote a blog about where are the people buried and I went and visited my mom and pops. I asked them to help me figure this out and get on with my life.

The Real Estate Exam requires you get a 75.0 or better and I did.

I am going to be a real estate agent in the Atlanta area.

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