you were doing too good of a job, prolly some beta manager worried if they didn't get you out you'd take their job

My last job was like that. Dude was such a moron. He would bury anyone for one more paycheck.

New boss didn't care about stupid stuff. He was great. I should have left when he was killed.

They said my raise was only 4%. My real life inflation was like 40% last year. An extra $250 a month isn't going to cut it, so I did it myself.

Its best not to kill yourself for someone else's dream when working for someone. While your working you should think of ways to generate passive income either through investments, rental properties, 2nd job, side gigs (i.e. YouTube, fever, etc..) and eventually the day job income will not be required and your stress about losing your job will not be there because you have multiple passive income streams. Google Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) to get many ideas on passive income being able to retire early and do what you want.

It’s simple…Live frugally and never get sick.

Why do I always get good reviews and then canned?

Living Frugally maybe 1 part but if your not generating any new income your burn rate on your money will be very high with cost of insurance, housing, food, utilities, etc.. I am dividend investor since 2014 and in 10 yrs time I am generating around $5-6K month passively while still having a FULL TIME JOB. So if I lose my 9-5 office day job I am not really stressed as I have income still coming in from investments.

Should I buy gme?

Why do I always get good reviews and then canned?

Well if you want to lose money you should buy GME and Dogecoin and split the difference and wait till either or both go to $0.

If your serious and want to learn about income investing I would recommend learning the difference between a Closed End Fund (CEF), Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), and an Open End Fund. Also learn about dividend investing and compound interest.

Well if you want to lose money you should buy GME and Dogecoin and split the difference and wait till either or both go to $0.

If your serious and want to learn about income investing I would recommend learning the difference between a Closed End Fund (CEF), Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), and an Open End Fund. Also learn about dividend investing and compound interest.

Ah, freshman high school economics flashbacks. I remember my teacher opining if the DJIA would ever exceed $1,000?

so much this. i remember them trying to make investing seem so hard. what works is looking at the weighted average and gamble off that. zoom out and look at the curves. obviously be keen on recent events, but if you just keep buying under the average and cut it off after 10% profit, you can grow.

I have some friends who became very wealthy at the Board of Trade back in the day. I asked them if they visit farms, research weather or had some specialized knowledge of how the stuff got from a seed in the ground to my dinner plate. They just laughed at my naivete

I do not know this for a fact, but my strong suspicion is that the average trader got wiped out at some point. Most of the ones I know are purely gamblers and any winning streak would be followed by risky, stress inducing bets to make up for losses. Most of the folks eventually give up. Now the guy that made enough to get a seat and work for themselves usually did alright, the rest were just betting suckers addicted to cocaine and hookers.

It has been said by one of the posters in this thread, genius I believe, that is about the length of time you are in the market. It is so true. When my kids were born, I calculated how much I would have to save per month to get to $120,000 apiece in college savings by age 18. I think it worked out to $50/month to start and raising it by $50 per month each birthday at a 7% assumed return. And that is almost exactly what I had when they started college. Too bad IU cost $200k.