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A young Aussie worker has shared how he went from not making a cent for six months to earning close to $300,000 a year . The real estate industry can be an extremely lucrative one, but it involves a huge amount of sacrifice and hustle before you can see the big bucks. Ethan Forbes has been working as a real estate agent on the Sunshine Coast for the past two years. The 24-year-old told Yahoo Finance he earned $300,000 last financial year, including superannuation and taxes, but it was a tough ride to get to where he is now. “I wasn’t making any money for six months and I was basically broke, had no money to my name,” he said. RELATED Aussie earning $300,000 a year in job after completing three day course Woolworths payment change hits dozens of supermarkets today Superannuation 'red alert' for millions as $1 billion in retirement savings feared lost Forbes completed a three-da...

Real estate agent trained over the course of weeks Now he earns almost $300,000-a-year READ MORE: Why Aussies have erupted at a pair of glamorous real estate agents A young real estate agent is pulling in $300,000 in his second year — and he only needed a three-day course to begin. Ethan Forbes, who is based in Baringa on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland , was stopped while on the beach and asked how much he makes in his role. He said he 'accidentally fell' into real estate, joking that it was for the 'wrong reasons'. 'I had a mate who was in it. He had the watch, the car, and I was like, I just want to be like that,' he said. Mr Forbes, who works for LJ Hooker's branch in Caloundra, said he took home $130,000 in his first year as an agent. '[I earned] $291,000 in GIC [Gross Commission Income] so probably took home $130,000, but that was working six to seven days a week, 12-hour days, with no holi...