What are the steps to becoming a real estate agent?
During the pandemic, I was one of the unfortunate people to lose my job.
I was working as a Marketing Coordinator for a construction company in the city where I live.
I had been with the company for about 2 years prior to that and had big plans of becoming the Marketing Manager. At that time, I had some money saved up, so I wasn’t completely in panic mode, but I did want to start working again as soon as possible. After a discussion with my mom, she mentioned that I should research becoming a real estate agent like my brother William. My brother is good at what he does, and he is passionate about real estate. Becoming a real estate agent would’ve been a complete change of course for me, but I was open-minded and decided to chat with my brother about it. He explained the entire process on how to become a real estate agent. They include taking a 60-hour course and passing the exam, submitting my fingerprints, then completing the application, and finally taking the state real estate exam. Of course, paying all the relevant fees in between which were between $400 and $750. The process sounded simple enough, but I was shocked to know that it could all be completed within a few months. After some thought, I considered becoming a real estate agent, and was ready to move forward with it. But an unlikely thing happened, the company that I worked for contacted me to complete a small project for them. Today, I am working as an independent contractor for the company and making way more money than I ever did before.