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To: JWest0926 who wrote (9846)	3/23/2002 10:08:37 AM
From: TheBusDriver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36161

<Follow my heart or be sensible? Looking for input from anyone, feel free to pm.> Gosh. Think you are the only one that can decide that one! Do what you like. You are young and have time to correct any mistakes. Don't think it will be long before you would know, whichever choice you make, if it is the right one. Best of luck. Wayne

To: JWest0926 who wrote (9846)	3/23/2002 12:15:52 PM
From: gold$10k	Respond to of 36161

JWest, I will never regret the 5 years right after graduating from college (the 1st time) that I spent making a meagre living playing music. During that time I was able to develop my skills as a musician as I never otherwise would have, I had great (and lousy) experiences and met incredible people (music will take you places that money can't), but most of all I learned that although I loved playing music I would never be happy in the music business. That knowledge freed me to move on to a career in electronics without that nagging "what if" in the back if my mind. I like Wayne's advice, "You are young and have time to correct any mistakes." I would add, "Try not to get yourself in a hole, financial or otherwise, that you can't reasonably get out of." Having learned to be suspicious of others' intentions, "daytrading firm in Las Vegas" sounds somewhat suspect to me. I would not accept the position with them until I was able to assure myself that they were legitimate and not in business to take MY money. Best of luck, vt

To: JWest0926 who wrote (9846)	3/23/2002 12:29:15 PM
From: re3	Respond to of 36161

hello JW, you've studied and traded on your own, but keeping one's behind in the chair all day, every day, eyes peeled to the screen, with the pressure on to crunch out profitable trades, may be harder than it first appears. depending on one's expense situation, you might be able to save up a pile in your first year of employment, and then perhaps trade part time on your own, or put together a nice portfolio of stocks that might become ten baggers... i think jimmy rogers once said the best thing traders could do on certain days was to just look out the window and do nothing...it seems to me (and i checked out a day trading place once) that there is too much pressure to churn in a daytrading firm.