I wanted them to know that there is a better way and that if a kid who could barely read could figure it out, so could they. I wanted to show young adults they didn’t have to take the beaten down path of financial struggles, working for 40, 50, or 60 years. I wanted to reach as many of my peers as I could to share what I knew. This very goal is what got me started writing for BiggerPockets. I later realized that the fastest way to address these issues is to change the parents before they’ve even had kids. Wanting to do something about these troubling norms, I thought for the longest time I would find some way to teach kids about financial education. Unfortunately, the norm is to spend the best hours of our day, during most days of the week, during most weeks of the year, during most years of our lives, trading our time for money and money for stuff until we die.

How thankful I am to be an outlier-because the standard career and financial paths that the masses continue to follow are terrible. That transitioned to career and financial choices as an adult. It gave me the ability to see things differently. It gave me a perspective the masses did not have. Looking back, I now see that being a “bad student” made me an outlier to the masses. I struggled my way through most of school, later realizing I was dyslexic. At that time, my reading comprehension was horrendous, and my writing about the same. What I didn’t know was that I was being tested for learning disabilities. People would come into the room from time to time and ask me questions and then jot notes on a clipboard. In 7th grade, I remember going into a room and taking tests all by myself.

Set for life by scott trench