My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. -Jim Valvano
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ElaineDBorden
Wow – so true. I was a straight A student in high school and majored in business classes. I love accounting/bookkeeping, short hand and typing and was very good at it. But, I wanted to be a beautician. When I told him that he said that he would not allow any child of his to work at a career that required you to stand all day. I was ticked but it was the best thing he said to me. I followed my business/accounting training and eventually became a real estate loan officer. My ability to read tax returns, etc.
helped me get loans approved that others had no idea what to do. I loved what I did and made a lot of money. I even opened my own mortgage banking company and at one time had a staff of 8. My father also taught me ethics and honesty so when real estate lenders were offering horrible loan programs and little or fraudulent loan packaging I got out of the business. I was not willing to compete against that. I became and Executive Assistant for hire and have done well.
Comments 1
Wow – so true. I was a straight A student in high school and majored in business classes. I love accounting/bookkeeping, short hand and typing and was very good at it. But, I wanted to be a beautician. When I told him that he said that he would not allow any child of his to work at a career that required you to stand all day. I was ticked but it was the best thing he said to me. I followed my business/accounting training and eventually became a real estate loan officer. My ability to read tax returns, etc.
helped me get loans approved that others had no idea what to do. I loved what I did and made a lot of money. I even opened my own mortgage banking company and at one time had a staff of 8. My father also taught me ethics and honesty so when real estate lenders were offering horrible loan programs and little or fraudulent loan packaging I got out of the business. I was not willing to compete against that. I became and Executive Assistant for hire and have done well.