Irrelevant. Nobody cares, and you should not care either what you were in the past. This is TODAY. Why not just be a "full-time speculator"? You are starting a new business. Your very own trading business. Treat it as a business, and understand that most small businesses lose money in their first year or two of operation. How many business owners out there feel "self-disrespect" for losing money in their start-up timeframe, and give up because of it? Only the failed ones, because they gave up. Look on the bright side...If you fail as a full-time speculator, you have your engineering background to fall back upon. So you do have a sort-of safety net. Narcissism has no place in trading, or investing, or anywhere. Drop this shit now, or you will fail. Again...Narcissism has no place in trading, or investing, or anywhere. Drop this shit now, or you will fail. Humble yourself fast, or be humbled. Now you're just in non-sequitur land and seem to be looking for validation of the fragile and barely-existent self-esteem umbrella you are trying to hide under. Blah blah, skipping to the end here... BECOME THAT MACHINE, or you will fail. Nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it, and it seems you have found your greatest challenge to becoming a great trader, in the bolded underlined italicized bit. Think less about others, and more about yourself. Stop whining on about what you think others may think of you. Think instead about how YOU think of you. Get a backbone and do not be afraid to stand alone, and FUCK what anyone else thinks, because nobody else is going to care about you more than YOU!
Greetings Again T, You Said: When I express these reservations to others, the most common reply was "You care too much about what people think about you." This is a weakness that cannot be avoided, at least by me. Humans are social creatures. Response: If you honestly believe that this is a weakness that cannot be overcome by you, then your course of action is simple. Keep letting other people in your life dictate how you feel about yourself, and all that you do. As long as your life is controlled by "other things" and "other people" outside of yourself, you will never be in control of how you feel about yourself. Now,....tell me,....how does that concept feel? You Said: It is impossible to totally ignore what others think unless you are a machine. Response: Not really,...you just have to believe at your core that, what you want for you and yours, is more important than what the world believes is right for you and yours. I believe you really need to sit down and do some "Soul Searching" and ask yourself this question: "Why does what other people think about me, matter more than what I think about myself,....and how did this happen?" You may also do well to read the words below, for they are well worth thinking about for at least a moment. “Every man who is truly his own man must learn to be alone in his thinking, in the midst of other men, and if need be, against the thinking of other men.” “My kind of Freedom, I enjoy my work because I chose it as a conscious act of my own free will. I’m secure in the knowledge that the only timetables, expectations, and deadlines that must be met are of my own doing. And best of all, no one can ever take this type freedom from me, because it resides within me.“ The Trader The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the Trader. We, who live by our own values, not by loot, are Traders, both in manner and spirit. A Trader is a man who earns what he gets, and does not give or take the undeserved. A Trader does not ask to be paid for his failures; just as he does not ask to be loved for his flaws. A Trader does not squander his body as fodder for the sake of others, or his soul as alms. Just as he does not give his work except in trade for material values, so he does not give the values of his spirit-his love, his friendship, his esteem-except in payment and in trade for human virtue, in payment for his own selfish pleasure, which he receives from men he can respect. The parasites who have, throughout the ages, reviled the Trader and held him in contempt, while honoring the beggars and the looters, have known the secret motive of their sneers: a Trader is the entity they dread, a man of justice. A. Rand KDASFTG
When i had jobs i could never get along with others.There was a big big gap between us.The folks with the rgular jobs are strangers to me.The only reason i`m still trading.
I managed full time for about 6months a long time ago. 1.society who cares society all about the money. Main issue I found was.... No 1 will take it seriously They'll class you as unemployed then they'll ring you up, drop in, expect you to do stuff for them, totally ruin your concentration. My advice, don't try to explain to anyone, lie to them, rent an office, go to work at normal ish times, make it look like your at a job therefore not available to walk there dogs, wait at theres for the gas man, Bla Bla Bla Bla! Switch phone off not allowed at work, then the peace to focus on the job at hand.
It is status that you worry about. You can't be frugal and want to be 'high' status at the same time, it doesn't work that way. As a compromise: buy a secondhand gold/steel rolex daytona (+-10k) and a low mileage 2006-2007 porsche 911 pdk convertible for +-35k If you ever sell the watch or the car you won't lose a lot of money on them (You'll break even) Hey presto, now you have some affordable status symbols
Get over yourself. You sound like a snowflake who voted for Hillary. Cowboy up and trade, or else forget it. No good will come of feeding the concerns in your post. Good luck.
As long as we can milk money out of market consistently so we can provide foods on the table for our family, who cares about what other think