Break out the champagne. I got a job. I'm not sure if I will take it though. Nonetheless, it feels very good to recieve an offer, but I'm actually getting crazy ideas that perhaps I can aim for something higher.
It's great to hear. Eventually, if you persist long enough, you will be promoted and make bigger bucks. I wish you luck. This productive life will be more worthwhile, enjoy. Greatest post of the day. Thanks for sharing. I hope you take the offer. The stock market will always be there. Those who could take time off from it are the luckiest souls.
congrats and take the job my man. corporate jobs are generally under-rated by public opinion, and entrepreneurship is usually over-rated. look, in an office job you have a boss, if you own your biz you have bosses (customers). being your own boss has a lot more stress and usually you work longer hours for less pay. Being a corporate employee is basically leveraging the company's established position in the market place for your own benefit (financial gain, experience gain). the market is always there and taking an office job doesn't mean you have to give up on the market... there is swing trading, there is off-hour markets... you'd actually trade with much less stress as it truely becomes a hobby. I have to say due to technical reasons (investor psychology behind real trends, comms, slippage), longer term trades are MORE profitable in general.... look at the other thread named 'traders P/L 2006', those guys churn 10s of 1000's of shares a day for a gain of $150 (if that much) is simply wasting away their life. good luck.
This thread is by far one of the most inspirational posts I've read. Thanks you broken dreams for starting the post and everyone else for contributing. Good luck on your new job! DVST8
see, it wasn't that difficult after all... but yesterday u were desperate and now u want more... i think that says a lot... good luck anyway ;-)
Thanks everyone! Wow, I have to comment that I'm pretty overwhelmed by the level of geunine support that exists on this board. The helpful advices, suggestions, and remarks that many of you have shared are rare, but they prove that good people do hang around in this unique community. When I made the first post, I had no idea it would turn into something like this. I wasn't looking for a mudslinging argument, and I wasn't looking for a hug. I just wanted to share a humble story and tell people, "Hey, hope you don't end up like me." I actually wished I could had told everyone a different tale and that I was retiring with a mansion and several yachts and you're all invited to come along, but that's just not how it went. My reality was that I had already spent five years in this game and that I was about to turn 30 with still not much under my name. I thought my life needed direction, and trading was getting me nowhere. For awhile, I felt like a swimmer in the ocean. When I was at it, there was a part of me that kept telling me to keep swimming and I'll reach land soon. There were many times I thought I had spotted land, but when I got there, they were just mirages. I might had found a plank or two along the way, but they were only temporary relief. It eventually got to the point where I really saw nothing ahead other than just more water. That voice that told me to keep swimming couldn't persuade me to continue the path anymore. I had to make a decision. It was time to reverse course. After making the decison, there were still great obstacles though because it was not like I was only a few hundred feet away from the beach, but more like hundreds of miles away. I worried how would I even get back. I was in the ocean for so long I was even sure if I remembered how to walk. But I guess that's what I'm learning now - trying to get my feet back into the real world. They might be small steps, but it's a process. And even when old dreams are broken, there's still new hope in other places. The job offer I got now is nice. Stable salary and possible bonus. Benefits and dental stuff also, which are so regular nothings to everyone else, but they are foriegn luxury to me. It's a big confidence booster because maybe I'm more marketable than what I initially assumed, but I am not sure if I will take it. The location is far away. I don't know if I'm naive to be a chooser at this stage, but I don't really know what kind of market we're in. I haven't had a real job in five years, but I just received an offer after only searching for about three weeks, so maybe that's telling me something.... like I'm finally getting lucky? Or maybe people are just hiring like crazy. I don't know. All I know is that I'm not as worried as before, so that's a pretty good thing.
if i was wearin' your shoes i would take the offer without thinkin' twice; u got nothin' to lose and everythin' to gain...if u not happy u can always look for somethin' else but u just need to try it out...who knows, it might be a huge career opportunity. be positive and go for it.