The Career Changer's Guide
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Explore Our Career-Change Guides
Thinking about a career in real estate? With Pre-Licensing education available across all 50 states and D.C., taking the first step toward your new career has never been more convenient. Explore flexible, online learning options designed to help you build the knowledge and confidence to pursue your real estate goals, wherever your journey begins.
We're creating guides to help you kickstart your new career in real estate. Whether you want to leverage your current skills or start fresh, our guides make the transition as smooth as possible. We compare salaries, show how your life may change, and offer practical advice for the journey.
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"For anyone that’s in education considering a new career or transitioning after retirement, real estate is amazing. You get to help people achieve their dreams. You get to do it on your own time. The flexibility of time, the freedom of time, but you also have the opportunity to earn a very good income at it while you’re helping people achieve their dreams." - Ernie S. Flores
"The main reason that I switched from teaching to real estate was because I had kids of my own and I needed flexible hours and I’m still making people happy and giving hugs." -Paulie Wooldridge
"Right before I got into real estate, I worked in law enforcement and corrections in Colorado actually, and I was also a dialysis tech for 15 years in Colorado. So I like to help people on all lives of journey, journey’s life. And real estate’s a different, it’s just a different beast, but it’s an amazing beast to help people become homeowners." - Angel Decker
"My transition from law enforcement into real estate was pretty simple. The freedom for the schedule is great. I got four boys and I worked graveyard swing shifts. I never saw them unless it was my day’s off. So I can go on trips. We can go anywhere. We’re like, all right, take the kids out of school. Let’s go somewhere. So the freedom that real estate has given us to spend more time with my family and actually watch my kids grow up has been great compared to being in law enforcement. I was so busy in the shift work and stuff. You can never have a schedule and make plans." - Garret Decker
"It was a great experience studying, taking my courses with the CE Shop. I loved it. I not only did it for myself but for my kids. It wasn’t hard. The material was amazing and I did it on a time at my own pace. I didn’t have to rush through it. I love it. It taught me everything that I needed to know about real estate. I’m so ready. I’m ready to take on the world. Please support the CE Shop. Get your real estate license, get your broker’s license. It’s amazing. It’s not hard and it’s not expensive. It’s very reasonable. You can do it. I did it. The CE Shop is the bomb." - Crystal Thompson
"I fell in love with this business 40 years ago and it has romanced me every day. If you have a passion for helping others, then that’s it. You’re helping people achieve the American dream. What could be better than that? And I just love that. I love people being happy, going into homes, building families’ lives together. And then you follow them throughout the years and then you’re helping their children. It’s just been a very good life, and I’m very, very happy that I’ve had this joy in my life that I call real estate." - Lena Melaragni
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