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                                                 I QUIT  

      WOW! To give up or “Quit” wouldn’t be a word in my vocabulary at this point but I did think about it several times when things got hard or when I had a little too much on my plate. Back in fall of 2010, I actually thought of and was very close to calling it quits towards pursuing a degree in law. While thinking about it at the time, I still had about 5 years left to complete this goal while getting a dual Bachelors degree in legal studies and accounting, then off to law school. It’s not like school work was hard because I currently have a 3.5 GPA and on the dean’s list. I just kept telling myself why now because I’m in my early thirties and I can just re-focus on my career in real estate. I was actually contemplating on reactivating my real estate license and somehow learn to incorporate real estate investing into this picture. A friend of mine was a real estate agent in Arkansas that turned to real estate investing when the market change and the income she makes currently allowed me to ask myself at the time, “why complete my degree when I can focus on this career opportunity and make more money.”

I was feeding this to myself trying to find an excuse to stop taking my online classes because it’s time consuming. I called to talk to my counselor and informed him that fall 2010 will be my last semester because I have other items on my agenda. Well after an hour conversation and going back and forth, I informed him to hold off. The comment I made to my counselor was “let me think about it again before I make a final decision.” So for the last two weeks of the semester in December 2010, I wrote down all my pros and cons of continuing my educational journey.

The first thing I’ve learned is that whatever trials and tribulations I’m go through, I will never quit or give up without dedicating a 100 percent focus to complete whatever I start. Secondly, as an aspiring attorney, I can use real estate law in my business if I choose to go that route. It will be a plus once I get my law degree. Lastly, real estate investing can pay my way through law school because I will not accumulate over 200 thousand dollars in debt. Needless to say, after reviewing my educational goals again along with completing 2 years of schooling so far and verifying my pro and cons, I’ve decided to continue and pursue my ultimate goal of completing my educational journey but just take a semester off. In the end, I didn’t quit, just took a five month break from 12/18/2010 through 5/19/2011 to get refreshed.

Dara C