What is your life's work outside trading?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by Buy1Sell2, Aug 9, 2018.

  1. Buy1Sell2...how about you?
     
    #31     Aug 10, 2018
  2. qxr1011

    qxr1011

    ===What is your life's work outside trading?===

    what most people listed above i consider hobby, or spending free time, etc.. its not imho a life's work,..

    depends of course on definition but imho there can not be too many activities that one can call life's work

    life's work is something to which one is devoted himself fully, it is the life spanning commitment and dedication, its expression of oneself, crusade, justification of one's existence...

    to me there is nothing but trading
     
    #32     Aug 10, 2018
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  3. slugar

    slugar

    Unfortunately I'm still working 55 hours a week outside of trading!
     
    #33     Aug 10, 2018
  4. qxr1011

    qxr1011

    imho one should not confuse working with the life's work

    working i call something to make a living..., one must eat , and working is a method to provide for oneself and one's family...

    but in many cases, and for most people, working is not a life's work (in light of explanation i just gave above)

    most people imho do not have the life's work..

    most people imho do not have a life (again depending on definition ) :) ...

    imho they just exist, until they are no more
     
    #34     Aug 10, 2018
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  5. Palindrome

    Palindrome

    whisky and wimmen
     
    #35     Aug 10, 2018
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  6. slugar

    slugar

    I actually do love my job but I love the ones I'm providing for more!
     
    #36     Aug 10, 2018
  7. qxr1011

    qxr1011

    well, then you have two life's works: the job and the family
     
    #37     Aug 10, 2018
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  8. JSOP

    JSOP

    No keep at it. Practice makes it perfect. Continuing to review and backtest and re-design your system does make it better.
     
    #38     Aug 10, 2018
  9. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    Sadly, I have not given back nearly what I should have. I have mostly concentrated on concerns for myself and loved ones. I have no "life's work" outside of trading.
     
    #39     Aug 10, 2018
  10. “I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.”

    W.C. Fields
     
    #40     Aug 10, 2018
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