College isn't just "not worth it", unfortunately, it's a negative.

hahahaha... I LOVE IT.. its funny how when you have lived as a different kind of person at one time.. the risk you take in the market is NOTHING... MBA's are great to the people that are hiring you that value them.. i'm going to get one.. and the whole way through i'm going to right obnoxious papers about whatever the fuck i want.... i'm working on a blog in the long run... i don't wanna be a sell out though like all the rest that don't make it in the trading world.. those who can't do teach.. those who can't trade sell tradiing strategies, seminars.. etc.. etc.. i'm gonna rip down historical options data into a mysql db then dynamically update flash charts with it.. on some not so typical shit.. heat mapped open interest changes and related underlying movements out into the term structure.. or just some straight maps of IV at opex... a trade journal.. and just some more of my fucked up noise that comes out of my brain.. i love that whole deal i read somewhere.. about how much more information we have to trade with these days but the retail trader isn't getting any more successful.... more and more information.. less and less out of it ... this is a good quote from my fav author..

"The mind can be a wonderful tool for self-delusion —it was not
designed to deal with complexity and nonlinear uncertainties.
Counter to the common discourse, more information means more
delusions: our detection of false patterns is growing faster and faster
as a side effect of modernity and the information age: there is this
mismatch between the messy randomness of the information-rich
current world with complex interactions and our intuitions of events,
derived in a simpler ancestral habitat —our mental architecture is at
an increased mismatch with the world in which we live."

 

this only sounds good, but it's pretty meaningless. OK, so don't go to college? But what if I want to be a doctor? Skip medical school and learn on my own, like an entrepreneur? Or what if I want to be a professor? Or dean of a college?

I can say the same useless stuff, An entrepreneur knows what won't work, and therefore most fail because they are afraid of their own insecurities. Entrepreneurs are bad salesman, because they can't have a normal conversation with someone holding a college degree. They are continually afraid of the question, "Oh, where did you go to school?"

This whole "don't go to college and try to make it on your own" mentality is stupid. The average person without a college degree makes way less money, and many more get a divorce, have drug problems, and end up in prison.

 

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I see your points,W bear;
& would agree with much of it. Too bad about the capital of Greece....Iceland...Cool.

Markets can be tricky;
Bill Gates dropped out of college, but only borrowwed $50,000 from his Dad,LOL Wisdom is profitable to direct.

King ''wisdom''Solomon never went to college;
but the worlds record maker & holder of wealth,
did lifelong learning.So as you imply, 4 years of college is a smalll sample.LOL

 

well i guess i have divorce and prison ahead of me if i don't get back into school quick! thanks for the advice! haha you can take it to the more obvious extremity if you want.. IE how does one be a doctor without school... but the gist of what i'm saying you obviously don't like.. i get that.. these days anyways people are looking for experience.. every suckers gotta degree.. .... hay whatever beliefs you have that make you feel better about your life .. great.. i don't wanna rock your boat buddy.. cause i'm sure i'll be in prison and worthless soon considering my lack of formal education.. that or i might just slit my wrists the next time someone asks me where i went to college.. haha

 

hey.. and i've learned more about differential equations and probability theory in a few books and experience on the street more then i'll ever learn in this satistics class i'm about to take.. i just looked at the book.. first chapter.. "remove outliers" to get a normal distro.. yeah cause i mean the outliers are totally not worth considering in the linear world of academia.. i'm a fucking pill of a student haha

 

LOL.

that is funny.

I think you will be fine, so now you can sleep well tonight.

OK, I'm using a computer I just jacked from some gang bangers in east compton and I got bullets flying over my head......

They don't teach you how to handle this during "Self-Defense 101"

 

Top post.

 

this is all about arguing generalizations isn't it? haha ... i hope your out of the statues of limitations on those crimes homeboy... every criminal knows this haha

 

Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's and highschool dropout, always said that if he had gone to college he would have been twice as rich as he was.

If you are as entreprenurial and talented as you are, then imagine how you could harness the power of an education...

You don't know what you are missing until you try it.

Given that all traders are seeking an informational edge, I'm surprized at how many are against education. You're sitting their reinventing the wheel while everyone else is on to the next level.

 

look i'm 34 years old taking one class a semester.. i know the valuation of school... you aren't quite listening to what we are really saying... the public overvalues it to solve the age old financial insecurity problem... . plus people take what they have learned in school as gospel.....