Your Personal Wealth Roadmap

For the first few years, the $140 per week I earned working full time allowed me to pay my bills, help my family back home, and pay my tuition. After graduating junior college, unable to obtain a job, I ended up working on the Upper West side of Manhattan as a live-in babysitter, making $200 per week. This gave me exclusive access to how the wealth... y lived. Seeing the disparity between my community and the wealth, I vowed that I would create my own wealth and help anyone else I could. I saved everything I could, invested in a class that would take me a year and a half later, out of the world of babysitting and on to the mergers and acquisition floor of Goldman Sachs. There I was exposed to the different career possibilities and a step further to my dreams. While working full time, I returned to school full time to earn my Bachelors degree. Now making almost 4 times as much as I did, I continued to live the same lifestyle, and saved everything else I earned. Before graduation, I was the co-owner in a small business, and I had purchased my first home. I decided that entrepreneurship, investing and real estate was my ticket out of poverty, and I was determined to get there at a young age. Within a year in my profession as a CPA, I co-founded an investment club Financial Freedom Investment Club with a few like-minded colleagues and friends. I also began personally investing in the stock market. I was sure that I would accumulate enough wealth to exit the corporate world by my early forties, and pursue my passion of giving back in a more meaningful way. When I got married, we purchased and furnished our home, and paid for our wedding without incurring debt (except our mortgage). We invested all monetary gifts received from our wedding. NOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT SUCCESS STORY, DOESNT IT?! THERE WERE NO HAPPY ENDINGS!! My house was taken over by people who thought their help came with a lifetime of repayment from me, and was being mortgaged to fund their lifestyle. They even managed to get their name added to the ...Read More