Nassau, Bahamas - Lamond Davis took the long road to real estate, literally. He drove
a FedEx truck and delivered envelopes, boxes and smiles to dozens of companies
and familiar faces every day for seven years. And with every office he went
into, he wondered if the people there felt a greater sense of job satisfaction
than he did. Realizing he wanted a change, he went to school at night, took
accounting and business courses and landed a prestigious position at an
offshore private trust company. It was the kind of upwardly mobile move that
drew nods of approval all around.

"Liaising with
international clients and their representatives was exciting, partly because of
the people I was dealing with but also because it afforded me the opportunity
to learn something new and work hard at it, helping people achieve investment
objectives...