Hi catechtrader et al...another favorite quote of mine
that I find applicable to what we're all trying to do in the market as investors:
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-- Theodore Roosevelt, speech before the Hamilton Club,
Chicago, April 10, 1899
You lived in Austin, catechtrader? Indeed, it's grown exponentially in past 15 years! Lots of high tech now which charges the atmosphere with an almost tangible energy/vitality ... it's cool! Several friends of mine have joined small software development start-ups after having worked with or for bigs techs here such as MOT, TXN, IBM, AMAT, AMD, DELL, Siemens, IXC Communications etc ... it's invigorating!
If my portfolios continue to look like I'm afraid they look this morning (LOL -- after fitfully tossing and turning half the night, I woke up at 4 a.m. dreaming (sort of nightmarish, actually) about RFMD, of all things ... I'm still trying to work up the nerve to LOOK at them!), I may JOIN them and go to work for a small start-up ...
OR I think it would be a real hoot to work somewhere like Origin Systems (the game plp) which is HQ'd here ... because of the youthful employee population. Like, get some sort of low-profile "piece of cake" job out there ... something easy with little responsibility -- ha! Receiving clerk, maybe?
Not for the money but just for the experience ... put in the hours, collect the (small) paycheck and go home and forget about it ...
But then again, I've become totally LAZY!
<Sigh> Oh my ... what a week. R&R this weekend sorely needed.
Best Regs to all,
bonnuss in austin
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