However, right now, it sounds like you and your girlfriend are both dreamers. You sound like a needy pushover, and she sounds like she is conceited, and is using you.
My advice is to move caustiously, and not to put too much trust in your girlfriend.
"my job will help me in the future when I become an investor" OK, so she'll be able to know how, when, where to buy real estate and you'll know what it'll cost, in time and money, to improve that real estate, and how to do the work AND run the project. It sounds like it could be a good partnership. As both of you gain experience, and save some money, you'll both be able to contribute to any future real estate investments. Investing isn't just about having the money to "flip" houses, it requires solid knowledge GOING INTO THE INVESTMENT about what the improvements might cost, how long it would take to improve the property and what the value (and thus the profit, or potential loss) might be at the end of the project. Lots of people think they can flip houses, but without an honest, experienced contractor (or someone who knows how to price and manage sub-contractors), they can lose their shirts.
Tell her to put that in her pipe and smoke it!
BTW if you don't want to lose her, don't be jealous about her talking about guys. And SHE should be less star-struck by wealth. You guys could have a good plan together, just chill out a bit while you both gain the experience to have a successful partnership in the future. "Money can't buy me love." I've been rich and miserable in a marriage, and not so financially stable yet incredibly happy in a relationship (with a contractor!). You can go to school and work on improving your income (as you're doing) but you can't create love out of thin air. Wealth has a price tag, love doesn't (or shouldn't!).
The fact of the matter is that all the money made by 1% of america is invested, and one of those places which 1% of america invests is in real estate. WHY do you ask? Well I could go on for hours about that but if you really like this girl you should stay with her but hop on the business boat and learn real estate. Check out this video about it and give me a ring I would love to help your situation if i can.
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I love her so much, and would do anything for her. I would even slave away at a job, if it meant I get a promotion or richer; I do that now in an attempt at wealth. I work at a construction company, and I'm trying to work hard, going back to school even for a manager position. My girlfriends is a real estate agent though (she just got her license this year), and she's always boasting about houses and investing in real estate. I'm a good handyman and I would always joke, and say, "I can be a part of your plan and fix any problems in your houses for you!", she would just laugh and give me a hug. I feel used though, that she has the potential to just use me because I am ready and able to go and fix her broken toilet.
She has a lot of clients, and half of them are real estate guru, or "investors". She always talk about this one guy name Jim, and how he manage to find a broken down house and called it a "gem". I told her it was bothering me that she was talking about other guys so much, so she has stopped. I'm sure the feeling and the fact that she is still "worshipping" other guys behind my back. I love my girl, I really don't want to lose her guys.
I'm always done my manager position in college soon, and will be making double what I make right now. But, it just doesn't seem to cut it with her. She's telling me to dream bigger and "get out of the rat race". She doesn't think getting a job will make anyone wealthy. I told her that she's full of ****, because she has a job, too! Her defence was, "my job will help me in the future when I become an investor". I read a lot about real estate investing, she got me into it, and I can honestly say, I feel scare for her. We've just went through a huge financial crisis with housing going down, down, down -- I lost my job a few times during 2009, because no one was building anymore. I told her what I knew, and she told me to not "live" in fear... We have our fights, but we also have a LOT of good times too. She said she wants to be rich to be able to give us the life we never had. We both grew up poor. That kind of takes a string to me a bit, that I can't make money like her.
