I entered the first grade excited about all the prospects of learning new things. Over the next few years, I learned that all these numbers I knew could be manipulated through addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They threw in decimals and percentages, and somewhere along the way, they even started mingling and interchanging letters and numbers. That didn’t shake me too much, though. I was pretty much your basic, well-rounded, A-B student. And I was happy in the comfortable world of understanding.

Then I got into high school and it got more complex. Geometry, ok. Makes sense for the most part. Algebra? We

I worked in the credit card business for about 6 years. Then I applied for the position of Corporate Trainer, which is what I did without the fancy title, and was turned down because I didn’t have a college degree. That ended that.

Then a position became available for the real estate loan processor and I moved over there. They put me in charge of processing home improvement loans. This was before the Texas Equity laws changed, so ¾ of your time was spent chasing down bids from contractors and I didn’t like that at all. So I started taking classes from ACC in Real Estate with the hopes of becoming an agent. After all, I used to be good in sales and I had a good understanding of mortgages. It seemed a natural progression. I left the credit union and went to work as the office manager of a large group of Realtors. And I discovered – I don’t like Realtors. They are NOT happy people. (Just for the record, I am one now!)

I got through high school with A’s, B’s and C’s. Good enough to get into UT. I had the desire to be a teacher of high school students in Drama and Government or History. No math in there. But, as I learned, they want well-rounded teachers. So I signed up for what sounded like the easiest class – Introduction to Mathematics. I went two days and it was all proofs, theorems and definitions. I dropped that class. Somehow, I got all the way through Junior year with no other math classes and had to start my student teaching assignment. They put me in with a classroom full of awful fifth graders. I ran screaming from that class and never went back.

I felt like I was at the beginning of my life again. No job. No plan. So I thought about all the areas of real estate I’d seen. I love real estate. And I knew there had to be a niche for me. So

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