Denver real estate agent
My 17-month old daughter play with some poker chips on the floor this evening, and was incredibly impressed with how methodically she was picking each chip up off the floor and putting it deliberately into the container. A to B. Chip to container, chip to container. If you’re a parent then it’s easy to predict that this particular game did not last very long…it was just a few minutes of predictability and calm in the sea of anarchy which is my daughter. Soon, the chips were flying, container was crushed, and I was scrambling to make sure she didn’t end up pooping out blue poker chips for the next two days.
Life is so unpredictable. I started out wanting to be a writer when I was in high school. In college I studied pre-med and graduated Cum Laude with the intention of going to medical school. Then I was a teacher in New York City. Now I own Real-a-Save. What the hell happened? How did I go from slogging through Organic Chemistry at San Francisco State University to creating a start-up real estate company? I never could have imagined in a thousand years when I was teaching inner-city kids at St. Agnes Boys High School in Manhattan that I would end up being a Denver real estate agent.
The funny thing is that I always pictured myself playing the deliberate chip-to-container game that my daughter was playing, when all along I’ve been scattering chips around the room like an exploding Vegas slot machine. My life has been a blast, but it’s been anything but deliberate and predictable.
For those of you out there who’ve worked methodically at the same career unlike myself: My wife is one of you. Same career for 14 years now. She’s great at it and has the respect of her peers and earns a fantastic income. She completely embraces consistency and slow methodical progression.
Not me. I’ve got this rebel gene somewhere in my DNA that loves to tackle big ideas: write a novel, be a doctor, teach inner city kids in NYC. And as unpredictable as it’s been for me it has lead me here to tackle another big idea: reinvent real estate. As cheesy as it sounds I’m really enjoying myself. It’s such a blast to see this thing that was just an idea on a yellow legal pad 18 months ago growing into a profitable business with happy clients and brilliant programmers cranking out the code as we speak. I know that my wife would smack me if she read that I’m comparing starting a company to giving birth to a child, but I’ll go ahead and do it anyway. From an idea to a living thing. The chips are flying all over the room, but that just means I’m still pursuing that big idea.
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