Where were you in the 90's?

Edward E. Cambas has over 30 years total experience in Business Development and Real Estate and here is some of the story. I started working at the age of 15 years old raising funds for the Police Benevelent Association (PBA). In the mid 1980's an opportunity presented itself to work in Real Esate. Initially I started working with Ariel Quintella selling properties in Lutz and doing general sales. Following with the trends of the time In 1990 I became licensed as a Series 7 Registered Representative and began to raise capital as an investment advisor/ stock broker. This was kind of like what you see in the movines with all of the hooplah and large paychecks. We were living in a fantasy world of glitz and glammer although making 200 cold calls every day has it's drawbacks. I can remember going for happy hour beers and appetisers at rocky point near the beach in Tampa. Then it was back to the office to cold call for a couple hours before heading home for the evening. I later became licensed as a Series 24 and was a managing director for a New York Investment Banking Firm and acting Principal for the Tampa offices. I knew that having the most prolific license would open doors for me and at the time it looked like Investment Banking was a great fit. I supervised agents directly in my office earning more than $60,000 per month and it seemed that the most successful persons either had a book of business or were getting darn good "hot" leads from a proprietary source. I was in charge of all the hiring and compliance in the office, and responsible for production - answering to my wall street bosses. - See more at: