A couple of days ago, Kim told me that her mother was going to change real estate agencies because she found a company that can offer her 100% commission. She has been with the same company for 15 years or so and has many established clients and has considered how much money she could be making if she was able to take home all of her comission (she sold 3 million dollars worth of houses last year). Basically, she interviewed this other company and has decided to go with them.
As a joke, I started propositioning Kim to ask her mother to sell a house just for us. She sells so many houses, maybe she’d sell one and it would be particularly easy, then she could just pretend she didn’t work for it at all and just give us the comission. It’s not like Kim asks for anything from her parents anyway, if her mom sold one million dollar house out in King’s Grant or something, she could just give us whatever the comission was and Kim and I could split it and pay off some of our bills.
Then I started thinking more seriously. What if something like that happened? What if my student loans just disappeared? What the hell would I do with my life? I must admit, knowing that there is this gigantic $150k+ debt out there waiting for me is my main motivation in life, right now. It’s the reason I am going to school for Network Security. If it were suddenly gone, I’m not sure what I would do with myself. I take comfort in the fact that I have a couple of years of school before I need to think about where I will work, where I will live, and what I will do with my life once I get there. Knowing that I have that time, is what makes me feel good about going to the gym, I feel like I have a head start on my new life when I finally get started with it– that “new life” also including being in better shape and more healthy.
If my loans were suddenly gone, I am not so sure I would be as motivated to go to ECPI. I probably still would, but I don’t think I’d feel as focused on it. It’s funny how I talk about how much I’d like to be out from under that debt, but really I just want to be out from under it in my own terms.
Speaking of my mother and real estate, I had a nice talk with her this morning about how my current investment is going. I didn’t have the chance to bring up the, “just make ONE sale for me and Justin” idea, but my current investment may pay off sooner than we thought. Depending on how this next year goes, we may see a nice chunk of change next Spring. However, there are a lot of factors involved. We’ll have to talk about them a lot more as the time gets closer.