What did you do before you started trading?

Discussion in 'Professional Trading' started by DanB, Jul 10, 2006.

  1. Relationship Manager at a Clearing Firm

    Pro: Travel

    Cons: Put up with the bureaucracy
     
    #31     Jul 11, 2006
  2. Mr B

    Mr B

    analyst.

    now that I'm a trader I don't listen to any analysts. how the tables have turned!
     
    #32     Jul 11, 2006
  3. Lawyer

    Pros: I do not remember anymore what the pros are, that is why I am leaving the profession lol.

    Cons: I did not do criminal work so I never dealt with cons.
     
    #33     Jul 11, 2006
  4. 1in10

    1in10

    Professor of Philosophy
     
    #34     Jul 11, 2006
  5. shepherd

    pro: easy sex

    con: i caught gonorrhea

    :D
     
    #35     Jul 11, 2006
  6. dac8555

    dac8555

    Broker/sales finance (still)

    pros: now i live in troical paradise at the ripe old age of 30.

    cons: let me get back to you...
     
    #36     Jul 11, 2006
  7. jstox

    jstox

    Started company ....

    Positives: the satisfaction from building something, the ultimate gamble, success and failures, the challenges, enjoyable work, retired early

    Negatives: high initial risk

    --jeff
     
    #37     Jul 11, 2006
  8. zoerhimes

    zoerhimes

    stripper at a gentlemen's club.

    pros: paid for college and my boob job.

    cons: got groped every night by horny old men.
     
    #38     Jul 11, 2006
  9. I think it is quite illuminating that the more money a man has, the fewer times he hears the words "horny" and "old" in the same sentence.

    Quite often these days, I hear instead, "I like your car"? and the ever popular "can I have a ride"?

    Steve
     
    #39     Jul 11, 2006
  10. DaveWeis

    DaveWeis

    I am currently a system administrator while finishing up college..after graduating I want to trade full time..

    Pro's..I come and go as I please for the most part..I can trade at work.
    Cons..Sometimes there are huge random problems that I get shat on for.
     
    #40     Jul 12, 2006