For rising professionals

Your twenties are for building leverage, not looking successful.

Lessons from twenty-six years in banking and commercial real estate — for students and young professionals building a career that lasts.

01

Get in the room

Choose the opportunity that puts your work ethic where people can see it. Mine was a teller window.

02

Collect skills, not titles

Ask which job will teach you something the market will pay for five years from now.

03

Learn how money works

Credit, cash flow, and debt are life skills — not just finance-major skills.

“Put yourself where your work ethic can be seen.”

That advice, given to me at seventeen while I was working maintenance in a condominium, shaped everything that followed. Think in Decades is where I pass it on — one short lesson at a time.

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