What Real Estate Taught Me That College Never Could » REI in Your Car » 1410
Real Estate Investing Mastery Podcast
Joe McCall
4.8 • 551 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
I was driving my daughter to school this morning, thinking about what I’d do differently if I could start all over again from high school. Truth is, I wouldn’t change much. College took me ten years, and I’ve got degrees I never really used, civil engineering and an MBA, but I’ve learned more running my own businesses than I ever did in a classroom. Still, as I’ve grown and raised four kids of my own, my perspective on college has shifted. It’s not useless. Not everyone is wired to be an entrepreneur, and college can teach valuable life lessons that you can’t always get in business.
From learning financial literacy to finding direction and discipline, there’s purpose in that journey. Whether your kids choose college or carve their own path, the key is helping them seek wisdom, take responsibility, and find what they’re truly called to do.
What’s Inside:
—Why I’ve changed my mind about the value of college
—The difference between entrepreneurs and employees
—Lessons I learned the hard way about money and taxes
—Why seeking God’s wisdom matters more than any degree
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, good morning, what's up? |
| 0:01.0 | Welcome to REI for a couple years anything. I went to |
| 0:38.0 | community college for a couple years, then I went to a Bible college for a couple years, and then I |
| 0:43.5 | went to community college again, and then I did some internships. No, no, I went to Iowa State |
| 0:49.9 | University for a year, did some internships, and then finally graduated with a bachelor's in civil |
| 0:55.9 | engineering in 2000. So I graduated high school in 1990, graduated from college in the year 2000. It took |
| 1:02.8 | me 10 years to graduate. But I learned a lot of good things from that, right? I enjoyed Bible school, |
| 1:06.6 | even though I never went into the ministry, the professional ministry, you know what I mean? I think we're all in the ministry somehow, in some way. Oh, by the way, five years after that, I got my MBA. Whatever, right? It's nice to get a degree to have that a sense of accomplishment that you, you know, you did something. But have I ever used my civil engineering degree? No, have I ever used my MBA? No. But I'm thinking about this because now we have |
| 1:28.4 | four kids and our youngest is a freshman in high school, right? And by the way, remind me, I'll talk |
| 1:34.1 | about that and I'll finish my thought here, but I just bought this new Model X. And you know, |
| 1:37.5 | sometimes when you're in two left turn lanes and usually everyone goes to the far left, I love |
| 1:43.1 | this Model X because I get in the, |
| 1:45.9 | whichever lane is shorter, |
| 1:47.5 | because I know I can pass everybody and cut in front of them. |
| 1:50.3 | It's one of the funnest things about driving an electric vehicle like this |
| 1:53.8 | is I just passed five or six people |
| 1:56.8 | because I got in the shorter line. |
| 1:59.0 | And now I just passed my sixth. Let's go. All right. So |
| 2:02.6 | my youngest is a freshman in high school. And my oldest is 22. Just started his fourth year of |
| 2:08.9 | college. And he's studying to be a chiropractor. Our second oldest son is in the community college, |
| 2:14.7 | just still trying to figure out what he wants to do. He's a smart kid, |
| 2:17.6 | and he's a really good kid. And then our oldest daughter, our number three, is a senior in high school. |
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