Investing is important, so you might want to get more education than a 8th grade field trip to "some kinda investment advisor office or something."
Many of the best investment opportunities I have had over the past 35 years have been difficult to understand, and seemed like they might be "fly-by-night bullshit." I regret not throwing a bit of money at them, or at least trying harder to understand them.
And this is where we get the real rule #1 to investing: DIVERSIFY!!! Make some solid investments, but also make some risky investments. With reallocation, you are constantly selling the expensive, and buying the cheap.