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Is going into real estate the easiest way to get rich?

I'm thinking about getting into real estate.

I'm a 29 year old single Army vet, no kids. Just spent the last 8 years in IT and hated every second of it. The most rewarding part was face to face helping people and getting really good feedback about how good I was/how I was so different from the average neckbeard techie. The day to day same garbage of server admin and constantly being either completely bored or in some high stress fire had me close to driving off a bridge. Dealing with technical people with no troubleshooting ability or getting that 2AM call because something is down was garbage and no matter how much time I put in my salary stayed pretty crap tier.

I was going to go all in on software engineer because the dev pay and work/life balance is a lot worse than being an IT janitor, but the more I think about it the less I want to sit in front of a PC 24 hours a day staring at lines of code and dealing with tech people.

I'm an entrepreneur at heart. I hate working for other people and am extremely self motivated. Back in my early teens I made a ton of cash buying and re-selling virtual MMO goods on eBay and it didn't feel like work at all. When I was in my early 20s I continued that and in a good month made a few grand. Shortly after I deployed to Iraq and since then my life has been a shitfest.

I'm thinking about getting into real estate.

I'm a 29 year old single Army vet, no kids. Just spent the last 8 years in IT and hated every second of it. The most rewarding part was face to face helping people and getting really good feedback about how good I was/how I was so different from the average neckbeard techie. The day to day same garbage of server admin and constantly being either completely bored or in some high stress fire had me close to driving off a bridge. Dealing with technical people with no troubleshooting ability or getting that 2AM call because something is down was garbage and no matter how much time I put in my salary stayed pretty crap tier.

I was going to go all in on software engineer because the dev pay and work/life balance is a lot worse than being an IT janitor, but the more I think about it the less I want to sit in front of a PC 24 hours a day staring at lines of code and dealing with tech people.

I'm an entrepreneur at heart. I hate working for other people and am extremely self motivated. Back in my early teens I made a ton of cash buying and re-selling virtual MMO goods on eBay and it didn't feel like work at all. When I was in my early 20s I continued that and in a good month made a few grand. Shortly after I deployed to Iraq and since then my life has been a shitfest.