I'm not exactly a Business Major (Intro)
At an early age I learned a lot about politics and business from my auntie who I considered to be my mentor or mentoress. She was once a soldier and spent a lot of time in Saudi Arabia. I participated in family debates when I was little and read a lot of her old financial books. I didn't understand much of what I was reading back then but I guess some how that information continued to float around in my head as I got older.
Politically and idealistically I am leaning real hard to the far left. This gets me into a lot of trouble and I often get fired from jobs. When I do get fired from one job, it can take months for me to find a new one. I'm a strange case and employers often tell me I either lack experience or I'm over qualified for the positions I apply for. That's why I often apply for the jobs nobody wants to do and do them until I get fed up with them.
With the knowledge that I could get fired from my jobs at any given moment because of my poor attitude and complete disgust of the current capitalist hierarchy structure, I began creating nest eggs to support myself while unemployed.
Eventually I landed a job at Walmart and I just knew I was going to be in big trouble working for that corporation. A savings account or money market account on Walmart wages just wasn't going to cut it. During my first year I would sit in the break room at lunch time reading financial ebooks on my Palm Zire 21 PDA about day trading, order routing, swing trading and investing. After I was able to wrap my mind around all of that stuff, I would arrive at work several hours early just so I could read the Wall Street Journal in the break room before my shift started.
I eventually learned the ropes by losing my bum, analyzing my mistakes and now I am a beast.
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The Tough Go Hard
I know. When I was in high school my mom swore I would become a black republican.
But I think one of the greatest problems we have here in the United States is that too many people choose the paths of least resistance or choose the paths that have been well traveled by others before. This leaves very little room for new ideas, innovation and originality. That's all coming back to the bite us in the butts at this very moment.
I guess my point is that regardless of whether you lean to the left or the right it is always a good idea to take on greater challenges.
Adversity = Growth.
It provides you with several new avenues to travel upon to achieve whatever goals you have in life and makes it easier for you to adapt while everyone else has their thumbs up their butts trying to figure out what do next.
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hard left?
everything i've learned about finance is that it's a 'hard right' world tough goin as a hard leftie around these parts