You must agree teaching and midwifery are respectable professions? You've most likely encountered them both, and it's these two professions that have played roles in making it possible for you to contribute here. If you're in pursuit of a career as a respectable trader then shouldn't it follow that those who helped you along the way should be respected? Are you coming from a Robert T. Kiyosaki angle or are you just stirring?
From the moment you are born, you have to trade one thing for another. Everyone breathing is trading something, so everyone can be considered traders. At some point, people start finding their speciality and concentrate more of their time into one area.
yes, that is what we use to call "professional." Doctors, lawyers, teachers. They did their job to the best of their ability, and their compensation was not directly tied to their performance. They were held in high esteem above common ordinary "business men".
I didn't read Rich Dad Poor Dad, but am aware of a distinction he made between employees, small business owners, large business leaders and investors. To cut a short story shorter, it's best to be a large business leader or investor... a reason why people (should) trade.
couldn't agree more. It gets lost when people start trading labor or time (just punching a time clock), and they start treating themselves (or their politicians do it for them) as employees (paid slaves.) All dignity is lost.
right now, the unemployment rate Is about 7.2% (if you don't count those of us that have just given up.) When it finally gets to 100% we will have arrived at total freedom. It's just a matter of how you view yourself. Are you an employee, or are you a trader?
"best"? Why would it be better for me to be a "large business leader"? I don't have the skills, or the patience or the desire. And what would it buy me? Nothing but aggravation. I already have everything a man like me could want or desire. It comes at a price. The first time I got a w-2 job I couldn't believe, "They are going to pay me the same every week, whether it was a good week or bad week?" Man, it was great. I could screw up all I wanted (so long as I didn't get fired) and they paid me the same each week. But when I started getting good, I didn't get paid any more.