Great stats!  To answer the headline question, it means organized chaos.  :)

Interesting question and illustrations. Along with the financial reward and helping others, I think that the ability to make my own schedule and work as hard as I want to or as little is a great motivator for me.

"Biggest motivation to being a full time agent?"

Mortgage.

I've been service oriented since I was a child. for me serving my clients is central to my life as a real estate agent. And I find that very satisfying, sometimes challenging but always satisfying.

I like the infographic.... and full time to me meant that I could retire before I was 60.... and now I continue to make money and have not been in a home for over 12 years..... and I can continue to do marketing from anywhere and on MY time, until I can't remember how to turn the computer on!!!!

Wow,  great information!  for me wait I have to go back and read the question again.

Interesting 'Survey and Statistics' - great Blog Inna Ivchenko!!  Ask me that question in a few years, as I haven't been a realtor for '1' year yet.  I'm sure it will mean something different to me then, as right now it's not like any job I've ever worked - even On Call jobs that were potentially 7 days a week!        

It is more like a no life of being a full time real estate agent.  

Flexibility...very important in my life

Helping people change their lives.   

Hard work. 

Working with and dealing with people.  What else can be said about that?

OK, I'm tired already. ;)
Nice info-g. Very true. We are magicians.

Interesting statistics. Real estate provides a career opportunity but the average income for NAR members is very low.

Inna Ivchenko An opportunity to help people meet their real estate goals.

We host/hostess life changing events in the Real Estate fields. What we do contributes significantly to peoples lives in renting, selling & buying R.E. Your bio should refelct your dedication and devotion to your life's work

Thanks for sharing the graphic. I fit the stats in so many ways. 

We treat it like a business...with business hours...

In order to succeed you have to love what you do, if not, it may be time for a new job. That leads to the way i look at my 30 years in real estate. Never do i look at it like a job, but an adventure. 

I love the infographic. 

Getting you life in balance is the key. For some, like me, it takes years to get there and we never really arrive!

I love seeing statistics.  For me, I love not knowing what will come my way each day.  I have systems in place and compartmentalize my day in order to com plete certain tasks and maintain my sytems.  When it comes to clients it can be a 24 hour business.  I do have boundaries but also make myself available to them by phone or email until I go to bed.

Interesting stats. I like reading articles from their source reference. 

Good morning! Very interesting info graphic. It pretty much says it all.

Interesting, thanks for sharing this.

Inna, thanks for sharing, had not seen this.  I know many weeks, especially now with spring buying, I am working 50+ hours a week, and tough to have any downtime.

OH, Inna Ivchenko ! Please don't make me depressed!

Cool stats!  Thanks for sharing them!

Inna,

I love Brenda Mayette 's response.  She is no doubt referring to a theory in mathematics

Chaos theory is the field of study in mathematics that studies the behavior and condition of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions—a response popularly referred to as the butterfly effect.  There are things impossible to predict, but they do have an order to them.  A