4/7/2025 – I’m now leaning towards combining Phase One and Two. It seems more efficient to work on acquiring skills that’ll have a large ROI in both time and money invested first and then expand to other skills that compliment the project but may not have an immediate and apparent ROI in terms of money. For example, I’m currently working night security while studying for the CPA. Not only does this provide me with some income that I can reinvest in both further education and in financial accounts, but also allows me time to invest in working on that education. I’m putting plans together to acquire two more masters while working security, one tentatively in AI and Machine Learning from WGU and another in Financial Risk Management. These will allow me to continue working a full time job (night security) while also attending grad school full time during the day. These should allow me to start networking and building my reputation over again, having largely wasted the first 21 years of my life).

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In the comics, Bruce Wayne spends 7 years travelling the world and learning from both formal and informal sources. Of the formal sources – colleges and universities – he would spend a semester or two at each institution, carefully crafting a class schedule of what drew him to that particular university in the first place, before leaving for another. I plan to replicate this in a slower fashion, spending some time first in my home state and neighboring states, before moving outward. My first two institutions will mainly be specific degrees focused on gaining skills that’ll translate into as high an income as possible and increase my productivity (much like how the first skills Wayne learned were total recall and memory techniques focused on increasing productivity and efficiency).