Wealth Wisdom System

Hi, my name is Katy Purviance, and I am the author and creator of Wealth Wisdom System.

I founded Wealth Wisdom System because I consider it to be my purpose in life to help other people out of the same mess that I myself was once in.

I used to be so sick and tired of my 9-5 job working for corporate America. I just hated working for someone else. I hated that no matter how long or how hard I worked, it seemed like my debt didn’t ever go away. I knew there had to be another way.

Hopefully my story can help inspire you to discover a better alternative just like I did when I started working from home, being my own boss, and making real money. But before I get into all of that, let me just tell you a little bit more about myself.

I’m the oldest of five, originally from Los Angeles. After high school I lived in New Hampshire for a few years, before moving to Idaho for about ten years. I now live in Boston. I’ve had a lot of different jobs — everything from a camp counselor in Washington state to a cannery worker in Alaska to a cross-country truck driver to a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa and everything in between. I love adventure!

However, I’ve also had a lot of jobs that I just couldn’t stand. It seemed like most companies were more interested in maintaining a “politics as usual” mindset. They were more interested in enforcing outdated soul-crushing 9-to-5 attendance policies than in letting their employees truly contribute in more creative and productive ways.

I knew that I needed a creative job. But not just any creative job. It had to be a very intellectually stimulating, important job. I took a ton of career aptitude tests, and they came back saying that I should be an architect.

I was very lucky (meaning that I worked very, very hard) to get into one of the top graduate architecture programs (Hint: the name of the school starts with an H). When I got accepted, I thought I was all set for the big time! But talk about a rude awakening! We had 20 required credits each semester, and we didn’t get to choose what classes we took or who our professors were. And, thanks to the tenure system, we unfortunately had professors who had no business teaching.

The schedule was insane. Nobody had time to sleep. People considered themselves lucky if they got maybe 40 minutes of sleep a night. No wonder our school was nicknamed the “Graduate School of Divorce.”

And when I visited architecture offices, I saw the same thing that I saw in school: rows of people glaring at their computer screens for 12, 14, 16 hours every day.

I thought to myself: this is absolute madness.

The real kicker came during our career fair. There were 500 of us, and only 16 employers, and *not one* employer even knew if they would be hiring. One wise architect there told me:

“There are a lot easier ways to make much more money.”

It hurt. It really hurt that I had spent so much of my time, and so much money (mostly in enormous loans), and worked so hard under constant stress…for what? There weren’t any jobs. And even though, after everything I’d been through, I was embarrassed to admit it, but deep down I knew that wise old architect was right: there was a better way.

Besides, as incredible as being an architect is, it’s still a job. It’s still looooong hours away from the family I would like to start having soon. And, despite the many long years of schooling, testing, and licensing required, the vast majority of architects are depressingly underpaid. On top of that, they have to deal with frequently changing building codes, city ordinances, and state regulations. To add insult to injury, it would take years of labor before I reached the pay rate I had made at the job I left to go to school!

Another thing is that I was a few years older than my classmates. My biological clock had suddenly started ticking LOUDLY! I couldn’t help but wonder if it was worth it to push myself through another several years of this very expensive, very stressful program just to prepare for a job that I would probably want to leave as soon as I had my first child.

Being in school – even a top notch school – suddenly didn’t make so much sense anymore.

I knew I didn’t want to resign myself to that kind of life. I didn’t want the children I would one day have to be raised by the daycare people. I didn’t want to go blind from staring at my computer all day. I was on a mission to find a way to set up a system of residual income. That’s right, I wanted to do something once and get paid for it over and over again. I had had a lot of jobs in my life and I no longer wanted to trade the hours of my life for my employer’s paycheck. In this mission, I acted as though my life depended on it…because it did.

I thought long and hard about what I really wanted my life to be like. I made a list. Well, actually I made a list of what I didn’t want:

• No alarm clock
• No commute
• No long hours
• No Mr. Boss Man acting like he owned me
• No dressing up in clothes I would never wear in real life (pantyhose? Are you kidding)
• No trading my hours for a set amount of money that I could not change

Think about it for a second… I knew that if I had money coming in, month in and month out, whether I slaved at a job 160 hours that month or not… If I didn’t have to waste forty minutes stuck in traffic every morning to go sit in a little prison cell under fluorescent lights for eight hours before sitting in traffic for another forty minutes every evening… only to crash and decompress on the sofa, feeling utterly drained, then my life might be pretty frickin’ incredible!

So then I made a list of what I did want:

• Automated systems… to make…
• Passive monthly cash flow
• Plenty of free time to start…um…making, and then enjoying my family

And that’s how Wealth Wisdom System was born. I wanted to build a system once and put it to work, and make money for me. And then I wanted to do it again and again and again. I would be in the business of making business work for me, instead of the other way around.

You might say that this approach opened my eyes and given me proof that what that wise old architect told me was true.