Real Estate is NOT my job / by Mitch Idol

Around 9 months ago I quit my job. I had been working there for close to 13 years and honestly never pictured myself outside of that organization. Through various and obvious circumstance I could not ignore, I resigned to the fact that my season there was over. That entire process is something that I could spend quite a bit of time writing about but that is not the point of this post.

After 13 years of working for an organization there were a lot of conditioned responses and actions engrained in me as habits. Some good some bad. Now that I am a real estate agent I have seen how my previously mentality as I approached my 9-5 was so very different. I loved where I worked, I loved the people I was around, and I loved what I was able to be a part of with a great organization. In a lot of ways it was a great JOB. In my heart it was way more than a JOB but in the practical sense it was a JOB. I had a salary, and expected weekly income that I could count on. I had healthcare and retirement.  I had security and all the stability a JOB has to offer. I was very blessed.

Now that I am in real estate, one of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn is that Real Estate is NOT my job IT IS my business. In a lot of ways that's exciting and in a lot of ways that makes me extremely nervous. Simply showing up to an office from 9-5 doesn’t get you a pay check.  I can’t begin to explain the shock that was and still is to my system. I had no idea how accustomed I was to the stability and predictability of a job. This mentality is my daily mentality shift that I have to own and force myself to think differently. Join me over these next few days as I share my thoughts about the difference between a JOB and a BUSINESS.