You know what? Your problem is simpler than I thought. You are just bored troll who's got way too much time on his hands. If you are smart enough to be able to do all the s*** that you claim you can, you would've done it already and made your millions or billions long time ago while "making a difference". Nowadays if you have just a half brilliant idea, people would shower money on you to make you the next IPO especially if you work in a "golden handcuff" job like you claim you do, you would've had all the connections you needed to start the venture work on what you want to do in "freedom". You wouldn't need to rely on retail trading to secure the financing and you certainly wouldn't be going on a forum to respond to every single post. No you are just bored, bored with your job, bored with your life, bored with your family if you have one, bored with everything. You just need some excitement in your life. My revised and final advice: Go do something fun in your life! Take a vacation. Go for an adventure. Take up a new hobby. Go take a trip. If you want to try your lucky rabbit foot, go to a casino and try your luck there. You don't need to take up trading. It's no less boring than your corporate job and it's not worth it to lose your savings and sacrifice your financial well-being to find out . And btw if you have a family, hug them more and spend more time with them. Perhaps take your vacation with them; do something fun with them. They are NOT sucking the life out of you; they are the ones who are giving you a life and you just have to have the courage to appreciate them and you better appreciate them before it's too late and they are long gone. Good luck and have fun! I am done with this thread.
You can make much more in trading. And have a few advantages: You don't even have to leave your home, or you can even trade on holidays. You need to spent less energy as the markets offer you every day possibility to make money. Finding clients takes more time and energy, and you will not find a new client "every hour". Trading pays you at the close of the trade, clients pay you later, and sometimes even never. ...
Emigrate to London. Make millions working as a “slave” for a bank or hedge fund. Get paid in offshore accounts. Move to a country with low income taxes (Croatia, Switzerland, Hong Kong), get your money out and move back to your home and do whatever you want to do. I know lots of smart guys who were “slaves” and ended up with tens of millions of dollars, euros, or pounds.
I know some who did that and came back without money but with a burnout. One of them has a 2,000 euro a month salary now... If you make more than EUR 28,000 a year you pay 36% in Croatia. Low income tax? Switzerland, low income tax? So you are one of them, if not, why?
Today was a regular day: woke up at 6 AM to go to work, got back home at 6 PM. If I'm to start working on my personal project, I do so with a performance / productivity penalty of -12 hours. If someone thinks an hour is an hour, no matter when, they're at best an idiot, at worse assholes who know they ain't but pretend they don't. There's a large body of statistical research which says MANUAL LABOR jobs efficiency peaks at 8 hours, after which efficiency decreases logarithmically, so an extra 4 hours of labor only brings 2 hours worth of regular productivity and so on. And for INTELLECTUAL work the number of hours worked is even lower, apparently around 6. So after 12 hours I'm into almost zero productivity territory, even that for "credit" (I'm incurring "sleep debt"). Yesterday I just caved in and slept for 12 hours more or less. Went to bed at 6 PM, struggled to get asleep, answered a phone at 8 PM, finally woke up thinking it's morning, it was exactly midnight. Experienced that a lot of times, at 6 PM I knew I was in a "total wreck" state and had to sleep not to get rested but just to recover enough to the state where I only feel tired like a normal person and can go to sleep. Which I did for the next 6 hours, incurring another -2 hours of sleep debt for a manual laborer, -4 for an intellectual. Anyways today after another 12 hours I've caffeinated myself enough to get past the exhaustion that sets in and inebriated myself just enough so I also get past depression and feeling of hopelessness, I mean like what's the point? Adding near-zeros (in productivity) for a very large period of time still integrates to near-nothing.
I'm an outlier. Don't judge me by the wisdom of the masses, which is what you're doing here. 1) Mass wisdom is perfectly fine with working SOME job and also implying it's your AWESOME life purpose. Masses are imbeciles and truly, directionless and purposeless. Give'm something and they'll follow. Not me. I want something and whatever jobs I got so far are nowhere near scratching it. As long as what I want is not illegal, it's my prerogative to pursue it using the full spectrum of resources available. 2) Another mass wisdom perl of ass wisdom, derived from #1 is that it's not just OK, it's the only WAY, if you want to pursue some path, any path, the way to do it is beg some patron to bless you with a job on it. And if you can't find a patron and you're not already accidentally (#1) working on it then it's clearly your fault and you shouldn't get near it anyways. Well, I want. Heck not want, need a lot of money for my purposes so as much as beggind and tailwagging trying to impress some rescuer to get me out of the basket of puppies heading out for extinction, that strategy just doesn't work reliably enough to be usable on SINGLE individuals. I need in the 80%-90% confidence before committing to something, the beggar strategy is in the 1-2%. Works fine for POPULATIONS and suits fine assholes selecting from populations. The bolsheviks correctly identified the latter but failed to identify the former. Some incipient political moves of this century correctly identified the former but there's a lot more to a winning strategy than what the previous centuries were doing. #3) Perhaps we could start a rational discussion on what drives us here, where we want to go and what means are we considering for that? First axiom of the 21'st century: risk is good. Experimenting is risky and with 99.99% probability it'll fail. Works fine for populations but not for leaders, check Khrushchev for instance. Guy reformed the murderous Soviet system and experimented with eccentric agricultural reforms. First one worked marvellously (00.01% probability of survival), second one was a 99.99% guaranteed failure. Morale for this century should be what the Russians always knew.