A new life has evolved...

My last entry was on Valentine’s day and then I went silent until today. Six months of too much thinking or too little time on my hands or lost of interest in writing. Probably a combination, but as usual I find that writing makes me stop and smell the flowers, even if just for a few minutes. I’m sure I’ve mentioned here that I find writing very therapeutic. Sometimes it’s only a to-do list or a whole article, but just jotting things on a piece of paper it’s almost like downloading information to an extension of my brain which allows the other part, the part within my skull, to take a breather and R-E-L-A-X.

It’s been probably a year that I’ve been more interested in doing something more than just being an active member of the AARP club. I’ve been looking for a possible business to buy, I’ve also been looking for a suitable job to apply to, and even looking at the possibility of creating my own type of life where I could be busy, but only busy when I want to, and not being dictated what to do by external forces (read: bosses). That something may have become a reality in my life during the last year, but it has been so subtle that I haven’t even realized it until now.

It started with a conversation I had with a Business Broker while we were negotiating my offer to a small business owner. Towards the end of the conversation I told Steve, it’d be nice to be able to buy this business, but what I’d really like to do, is to have a job like yours. I knew that I enjoyed the research and negotiations required to acquire a business, what I wasn’t sure was whether I was ready and willing to commit to the long hours and dedication that a small business requires. Steve went on to tell me that he also thought that I’d be a good business broker and explained that in Florida the only requirement was to have a real estate salesperson license.

So, in November of 2009 I started taking an online class to prepare me to take the Florida exam, however, the trips to Panama and later on to Cuba got on the way and it wasn’t until about February of this year when I started taking the online classes seriously.

I love taking classes and even have a weird fascination with taking exams, but eventually everything came to an end and I had to make a decision of which line of work to pursue. I spent a few days working with a business broker group but found them a little disorganized and offered little in the way of training. Being a novice in the field I felt that I wanted more mentorship and training and less independence.

A few days later, after doing some research on the matter I decided to join the Keyes Company to practice real estate sales. Of course my original intentions were to be the Realtor® to my main client: Belinda, but the more I learn the more I liked the idea that I could be helpful to others as well. Besides if I survive the training that is required to keep my main client happy, I’d have been graduated with heat and fire to handle the most demanding of clients available. So now I’m saying, bring them on, I’m ready to deal with the bitchiest real-world clients out there, I’m not afraid anymore. I’ve been tested.