Back when I was in college I bought a small piece of land on a stream for $3500. I was saving that money for a Toyota Truck and ended up buying the land instead. My plan was to put a mobile home on it and live there while I was in college. Two years later I gave up and sold it for $7800. If financed most of my private, instrument and commercial with the money.

Since then whenever I was laid off or underemployed I would buy land and build something. Eventually I began to keep the properties and rent them out. Years later when I was laid off from flying with a family in tow I took a look at my life and realized that I did better financially and had a better QOL during times when I was laid off than when I was working as a pilot full time.

It seemed so simple. Here I was pounding my head against the brick wall of aviation when I had the answer to a better life before me all the time.


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