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Strategies & Market Trends : Are you considering quitting your dayjob to daytrade?!

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To: SpongeBrain who wrote (21)	1/17/1999 8:13:00 PM
From: Dave O.	Read Replies (2) of 611

< I'd like to hear what types of jobs people are willing to give up in order to do this > You wonder why people might "give up" decent jobs to trade? I was in engineering for 18 years ... had a really good job ... good $$$ ... but I despised corporate politics, rush hour commuting, long hours. I spent 4 years planning for my transition ... eliminating all debt ... having only the "normal" bills to pay each month (utilities, food, property taxes, ..) and finding that I could live on less money. Some people here seem to think that you need to make as much, or more $$$ than your job paid to make it worthwhile. That's not necessarily true. Take away the daily commute, the cost of new suits, lunches out, and trade that off with the commute time now being yours to do with as you please. No dress code for trading. My commute is about 10 feet from my bedroom to my office. If I'm up enough $$$ by noon I can take off, shut off the computer and go enjoy the day. Now can someone in a corporate position do this? Do they have the freedom? Not likely. Dave

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