i can't sleep. i just found out that my google AdSense just got approved. I take it as the last piece to fall on my financial puzzle.
two days ago, I made a profit on my US brokerage account. its kind of encouraging, somehow im starting to get a clearer picture on how the next 5 years will look like. finally. 7 years ago, when i started in the call center industry i already know what i don't want. but i don't know what i wanted. i only have vague ideas.
so after long years of getting cussed, getting drunk, resigning and applying for jobs that doesn't seem to work, i finally found the most unlikely job - as a stockbroker where i see myself doing for 10 years.
if you have been my seatmate in Math class you'll know why. probably i'm one of the most hapless guy in our high school batch to graduate when it comes to numbers.
so its quite a surprise that i passed the two exams, knowing my mathematical deficiencies and my lackadaisical study habits. i was forced to wake up an hour before my scheduled waking time just to study.
all efforts are rewarded.
so fast forward to 1 year from the exam, here i am doing what i do best - slack off. i really think that i should push myself more but somehow that resolve gets broken whenever i encounter a roadblock. its easy to be passive. the mind takes the path of the least resistance. i really would like to excel in something. not just to get by.
its weird coz i know that i have the staying power, that i can hold on to a job that i don't care about for say 3 years, but i can't seem too sustain the drive to excel. come to think of it i always settle for a third, sometimes i wonder what makes competitive folks tick. why don't i have the same passion? could it be because i question authorities too much? maybe.
but hey, i love this job. who wouldn't? the pay is good, the management is fine, and the title/job description is as good as it gets. i also have a personal stake to master what i do. come on, i have a trading account so i really have to double time if i want to have everything that i want within my time frame.
a nice house with kumag. backpack in Europe and Asia (i'll take on Africa and America once i'm done with these two). learn a foreign language. take pictures. write some. and mentor my nephews and nieces.
sounds like a plan, right?
i know that the first two sounds like asking to much, you can't have a nice house while at the same time wandering around the world, coz dude that cost alot of money. i just have to make it happen. so here's hoping that all my lazy and risky ventures will come into fruition. oh please Lord of Stocks, i know money doesn't grow on trees but please, please let my opening and closing of position be at the right time.
stock trading is crazy, you just have to know a little, ride the wave and take it from there. you learn by becoming wet. so its taking risks, but you don't get the rewards without giving something in return. which means that i have to study technical analysis. and stick to this job.
yes, lately my workmates are leaving for better offers, but for me its just a short term benefit. because if i can earn profits from my trading account then that will be more than enough to cover or offset whatever pay raise that i can get supposing that i move out. so methinks that i'll stay here for another 3 or 5 years. compounding benefits. compounding interest. like with my trading capital, i am positive that everything will flourish.
two days ago, I made a profit on my US brokerage account. its kind of encouraging, somehow im starting to get a clearer picture on how the next 5 years will look like. finally. 7 years ago, when i started in the call center industry i already know what i don't want. but i don't know what i wanted. i only have vague ideas.
so after long years of getting cussed, getting drunk, resigning and applying for jobs that doesn't seem to work, i finally found the most unlikely job - as a stockbroker where i see myself doing for 10 years.
if you have been my seatmate in Math class you'll know why. probably i'm one of the most hapless guy in our high school batch to graduate when it comes to numbers.
so its quite a surprise that i passed the two exams, knowing my mathematical deficiencies and my lackadaisical study habits. i was forced to wake up an hour before my scheduled waking time just to study.
all efforts are rewarded.
so fast forward to 1 year from the exam, here i am doing what i do best - slack off. i really think that i should push myself more but somehow that resolve gets broken whenever i encounter a roadblock. its easy to be passive. the mind takes the path of the least resistance. i really would like to excel in something. not just to get by.
its weird coz i know that i have the staying power, that i can hold on to a job that i don't care about for say 3 years, but i can't seem too sustain the drive to excel. come to think of it i always settle for a third, sometimes i wonder what makes competitive folks tick. why don't i have the same passion? could it be because i question authorities too much? maybe.
but hey, i love this job. who wouldn't? the pay is good, the management is fine, and the title/job description is as good as it gets. i also have a personal stake to master what i do. come on, i have a trading account so i really have to double time if i want to have everything that i want within my time frame.
a nice house with kumag. backpack in Europe and Asia (i'll take on Africa and America once i'm done with these two). learn a foreign language. take pictures. write some. and mentor my nephews and nieces.
sounds like a plan, right?
i know that the first two sounds like asking to much, you can't have a nice house while at the same time wandering around the world, coz dude that cost alot of money. i just have to make it happen. so here's hoping that all my lazy and risky ventures will come into fruition. oh please Lord of Stocks, i know money doesn't grow on trees but please, please let my opening and closing of position be at the right time.
stock trading is crazy, you just have to know a little, ride the wave and take it from there. you learn by becoming wet. so its taking risks, but you don't get the rewards without giving something in return. which means that i have to study technical analysis. and stick to this job.
yes, lately my workmates are leaving for better offers, but for me its just a short term benefit. because if i can earn profits from my trading account then that will be more than enough to cover or offset whatever pay raise that i can get supposing that i move out. so methinks that i'll stay here for another 3 or 5 years. compounding benefits. compounding interest. like with my trading capital, i am positive that everything will flourish.
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