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Isnt a service career more satisfying then trading?

  • #1
  • First Post: Oct 21, 2009 10:44am Oct 21, 2009 10:44am
I have been trading for last 3 weeks live. I am a student trying to become an internal auditor. I feel service career is more satisfying then a trading career.

I am trading all alone in my room sitting in front of my PC for 8-10 hrs a day. Trading does not involve any social skills, no friendship circle (like office friends), no value addition, no career skills.

In a service career, i will interact with so many office friends, will have a well defined career, can visit different places for assignments and will have overall satisfaction and better life balance.

What are the views of other traders and full time job holders?
  • #2
  • Oct 21, 2009 10:56am Oct 21, 2009 10:56am
Quoting kingfisher
I have been trading for last 3 weeks live. I am a student trying to become an internal auditor. I feel service career is more satisfying then a trading career.

I am trading all alone in my room sitting in front of my PC for 8-10 hrs a day. Trading does not involve any social skills, no friendship circle (like office friends), no value addition, no career skills.

In a service career, i will interact with so many office friends, will have a well defined career, can visit different places for assignments and will have overall satisfaction and better...
The views of others should be irrelevant to you.
You have to decide what you want to do with your life.
  • #3
  • Oct 21, 2009 11:04am Oct 21, 2009 11:04am
Quoting kingfisher
I have been trading for last 3 weeks live. I am a student trying to become an internal auditor. I feel service career is more satisfying then a trading career.

I am trading all alone in my room sitting in front of my PC for 8-10 hrs a day. Trading does not involve any social skills, no friendship circle (like office friends), no value addition, no career skills.

In a service career, i will interact with so many office friends, will have a well defined career, can visit different places for assignments and will have overall satisfaction and better...
I agree day trading is the most BORING job in the world...trade off the D1 + and have a life. Simple.
  • #4
  • Oct 21, 2009 11:07am Oct 21, 2009 11:07am
Well said Porkie and Bill.
I'll become a Socialite after I make as much money as I can trading a boring forex.
  • #5
  • Oct 21, 2009 11:09am Oct 21, 2009 11:09am
Congratulations you found it. Find something you enjoy doing and make money from it, trading is not for everyone.
  • #6
  • Oct 21, 2009 11:30am Oct 21, 2009 11:30am
Depends what you want out of it. Working 8-10 hours is your choice. I don't work to make friends, I work to make money. If I want to spend 1 hour doing so, I will. If I want to spend 10 hours doing so, I will. Trading is what you make of it.
  • #7
  • Oct 21, 2009 12:51pm Oct 21, 2009 12:51pm
I fully respect and salute full time traders who make a living out of it or try to make a living out of it.

The best thing in life, as per my opinion is some sort of running business inherited from family- like a manufacturing set up, export/import business or some franchise.

Good income in business, less stressful. It is a real trading.
  • #8
  • Oct 21, 2009 1:02pm Oct 21, 2009 1:02pm
25-50pip day only take couple hours than go out and enjoy the sunshine

Quoting MackS10
Congratulations you found it. Find something you enjoy doing and make money from it, trading is not for everyone.
well said
  • #9
  • Oct 21, 2009 1:06pm Oct 21, 2009 1:06pm
Quoting kingfisher
I fully respect and salute full time traders who make a living out of it or try to make a living out of it.

The best thing in life, as per my opinion is some sort of running business inherited from family- like a manufacturing set up, export/import business or some franchise.

Good income in business, less stressful. It is a real trading.
To find the best business to be in one must divide their Income by the Time they spend working for that income. The larger the answer is, the better off you are. But something that cant be quantified is satisfaction gained. I can imagine running a successful manufacturing business to be more satisfying than being Day-trader who earns an equal income. This is down to the perceived status and the social aspect.

At this point in my life, I would go wherever the most money could be made. Probably moving on toa lower paid but more enjoyable job as I got older.
Living the adventure in my head.
  • #10
  • Oct 21, 2009 1:09pm Oct 21, 2009 1:09pm
Quoting kingfisher
I fully respect and salute full time traders who make a living out of it or try to make a living out of it.

The best thing in life, as per my opinion is some sort of running business inherited from family- like a manufacturing set up, export/import business or some franchise.

Good income in business, less stressful. It is a real trading.
yeah, but the real business can get affected by the games they play on wallstreet. so there's no safer haven than trading for making money, and even exorbitant big amounts. tell any of your regular friends you are making more a day which they earn in a whole month. that's trading.

the supply & demand never runs out in this casino.
  • #11
  • Oct 21, 2009 2:20pm Oct 21, 2009 2:20pm
Actually trading is one the few profession that give one an absolute peacefull time for himself if your a trading style suit your personality.. one must have passion for it. if you're overly bored maybe this aint for you.. this is one the few real wealth building game. but the learning processs is is one of the hardest. it's loner game when you have past the need to trade everyday or every month to meet your spending obligation and you're a kind of man that dont need to prove himself you have reached the zone. absolute peace of mind. i love trading
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" leonardo da vinci
  • #12
  • Oct 21, 2009 2:31pm Oct 21, 2009 2:31pm
When it comes down to it, trading is a business that should be treated as such. When it come down to business, I have no time to socialized and make friends. My business is like everyone else's, to make money ... lots of it. If I wanted a job that enable me to become that of a social ladder, then I would have worked in some big box retail store's customer service area wearing a pair of khakies and a mesh Polo short with a name badge, while yelling the phrase, "how may I help you",, around every corner of the store. Make no mistake (and most traders don't), if you trade as a business you do it for the money, and nothing else.

Reminds me of one of Kanye West's lyrics -
Quote
what I f#$%'in rap for .... to push a f#$%'in Rav4.
Just like rappers, traders do it for the money.
  • #13
  • Oct 21, 2009 2:50pm Oct 21, 2009 2:50pm
Quoting kingfisher
I have been trading for last 3 weeks live. I am a student trying to become an internal auditor. I feel service career is more satisfying then a trading career.

I am trading all alone in my room sitting in front of my PC for 8-10 hrs a day. Trading does not involve any social skills, no friendship circle (like office friends), no value addition, no career skills.

In a service career, i will interact with so many office friends, will have a well defined career, can visit different places for assignments and will have overall satisfaction and better...
For me trading is a duty-call ... u r born with it ... u have it or not ... the instant u get to know it u r sure if this is what u want to do the rest of ur life or not.

if u dont have the call ... then look elsewhere ... because is not enough to have a full-hearted duty-call... it takes tears and blood to succeed ... if u dont have the call ... u will drop it eventually.

ask that sincerely to ur self... if the answer is "i'd rather try other things" ... then trading is not for u ... maybe as an investor -longterm- yes .. but not daytrading and speculating.
  • #14
  • Oct 21, 2009 2:58pm Oct 21, 2009 2:58pm
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For me trading is a duty-call ... u r born with it ... u have it or not ... the instant u get to know it u r sure if this is what u want to do the rest of ur life or not.

if u dont have the call ... then look elsewhere ... because is not enough to have a full-hearted duty-call... it takes tears and blood to succeed ... if u dont have the call ... u will drop it eventually.

ask that sincerely to ur self... if the answer is "i'd rather try other things" ... then trading is not for u ... maybe as an investor -longterm- yes .. but not daytrading...

Lol, you make being a trader sound like being Harry Potter. I want to be challenged and I want to make a lot of money, and I dont care how I do it. Would you turn down a more secure profession with higher pay so that you could day-trade? If the answer is yes, then your crazy.

The real traders are here for the money, not some romantic notion of themselves.
Living the adventure in my head.
  • #15
  • Oct 21, 2009 3:03pm Oct 21, 2009 3:03pm
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For me trading is a duty-call ... u r born with it ... u have it or not ... the instant u get to know it u r sure if this is what u want to do the rest of ur life or not.

if u dont have the call ... then look elsewhere ... because is not enough to have a full-hearted duty-call... it takes tears and blood to succeed ... if u dont have the call ... u will drop it eventually.

ask that sincerely to ur self... if the answer is "i'd rather try other things" ... then trading is not for u ... maybe as an investor -longterm- yes .. but not daytrading...

I agree...As an investor yes but not as a day trader or speculator if i am trying to build a service career

Life is very tough in a service career for first 5 yrs with too much office politics- getting a right job is a nightmare and even a relocation has to be made to get the right job.
  • #16
  • Oct 21, 2009 3:12pm Oct 21, 2009 3:12pm
Quoting kingfisher
I have been trading for last 3 weeks live. I am a student trying to become an internal auditor. I feel service career is more satisfying then a trading career.

I am trading all alone in my room sitting in front of my PC for 8-10 hrs a day. Trading does not involve any social skills, no friendship circle (like office friends), no value addition, no career skills.

In a service career, i will interact with so many office friends, will have a well defined career, can visit different places for assignments and will have overall satisfaction and better...
Wait until you have been doing the job you are planning to do for about 10 years. Then come back and re-read this post.
  • #17
  • Oct 21, 2009 3:27pm Oct 21, 2009 3:27pm
Quoting Leonlorenzo
Lol, you make being a trader sound like being Harry Potter. I want to be challenged and I want to make a lot of money, and I dont care how I do it. Would you turn down a more secure profession with higher pay so that you could day-trade? If the answer is yes, then your crazy.

The real traders are here for the money, not some romantic notion of themselves.
True, but I have tried many different jobs in my life, and my current one pays over USD$1000 a day.
But I would gladly trade it for being a professional trader, so I don't have to deal with others people bullshit.(and a chance to earn more money )
And to spend a day by myself, I would greet it as a gift.......
So to each, it's own
  • #18
  • Oct 21, 2009 3:33pm Oct 21, 2009 3:33pm
Quoting kingfisher
I have been trading for last 3 weeks live. I am a student trying to become an internal auditor. I feel service career is more satisfying then a trading career.

I am trading all alone in my room sitting in front of my PC for 8-10 hrs a day. Trading does not involve any social skills, no friendship circle (like office friends), no value addition, no career skills.

In a service career, i will interact with so many office friends, will have a well defined career, can visit different places for assignments and will have overall satisfaction and better...
Well, everyone can't be doctors as they say. It's right for some people and not others. I really can't say anything else on the matter but think (that like so many other things in life) that's what it boils down to.
  • #19
  • Oct 21, 2009 3:34pm Oct 21, 2009 3:34pm
Quoting mikkom
Wait until you have been doing the job you are planning to do for about 10 years. Then come back and re-read this post.

That's quite funny really...
  • #20
  • Oct 21, 2009 3:54pm Oct 21, 2009 3:54pm
I believe that if you truly want to become a trader you have to want it badly... whatever that takes, for me it is the only thing I really want to do.

I used to sit at a computer doing drawings for 8 hours a day and have to put up with office politics and directors exploiting workers.

Not any more, I can do what I want when I want, so much freedom that is what is so appealing for me. My time is now my own.

If it doesn't work out this time, I will try harder the next time.


Cheers J
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