I got my first job at 17 and worked mainly dead-end jobs at restaurants, in construction, and at mini-marts. I was a late bloomer and started college in 1993 at 30. I left Indiana and got a job at a college in Washington, where my daughter was born in 2005. The one thing I would've done differently is I would've bought real estate earlierI've made a lot of money off the real estate I've owned and sold. I wish I had started putting money away earlier, and that's the advice I would give young people.