After graduating, is it smart to intern (part-time) so I can seriously self-study RE finance?

I learned nothing in school, and need RE Finance to advance. (I've interned in tenant rep and acquisitions). After graduating, I plan to work part-time while learning the following links, in their entirety. I see there is real mobility if you know your RE finance and Excel, and it allows you to ask better questions in your network. Won't this be more beneficial than jumping in full-time someplace?

Adventures in CRE A Student of the Real Estate Game

Buegerman and Fisher Answers to Questions and Problems

And to any nay-sayers, this is the same idea as balancing college and interning, so would you then be against taking the time for college? If you need the knowledge, you need the knowledge.

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I don't see anything wrong with this. I work as an analyst at a big brokerage firm. A lot of the analysts in the investment sales groups started as post-grad interns at our company or were interns in research or development at others. If you focus on learning the important skills and networking it will actually be a solid plan. Then again, you may be able to get a full-time gig and you can learn all the skills that way.

 

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