/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>23987007

>>21312202
Good! I'm glad somebody's happy.

>>20801499
With each passing day I wanna kms myself more and more. I see people making the dumbest fucking trades and getting rewarded for it. Shit that all conventional wisdom, TA, DD, etc. says is a bad idea. My normie coworkers and family members do better than me because they get lucky and buy meme stocks that pop, and whenever I try to flip a meme stock it takes a colossal shit. I put all this time and effort into analysis and shit only to get outgained by borderline retards. I even have plenty examples where I told a coworker "hey, buying X might be a good idea" (even though I didn't own any myself) and they bought a fuck ton of it and it went to the moon. The stuff that I actually own doesn't compare to the performance of the stuff I convince others to buy. Fuck my goddamn life. /blog

>>1984470
>>1984480
same here bros

I met this guy today.

He's in his 60s. He's one of those blue collar redneck type of guys. But this guy is worth millions. He's owned 8 businesses in his lifetime. All were successful and he sold them all making that dough. Yet he's like 55 and still works a 9-5 job making $12/hour picking up trash out of rest areas. He owns a water park/ski resort, and like half of the commercial offices in the city leasing them out to doctor practices, lawyers, dentists, financial firms, etc. Yet is still humble enough to work a 9-5 instead of blowing his money on McMansions and fast cars. He even has the same wife since he got married at 19.

Are people born with this sort of work ethic, or do they acquire it? I'm a wage cuck making $12/hour cleaning up rest areas in Colorado and come to find out this guy I work with is rich as fuck.

>tfw i want to panic sell
>tfw coinbase coins dont come in for another 2 days
>mfw cant even panic sell

>60k job i hate
>in a top mba program
>CFA level 1 exam this summer
>busy 24/7 studying and working
>every day i fantasize more about going neet hermit in nebraska

and ill never, never ever, save enough for financial independence needed to fulfill my dream.

i just want to live in bumfuck nowhere for 30k a year plugged in 24/7

i just want to game again.

I'm 23 and take home ~$3K a month working in a factory. I have no formal education. I don't hate the job but it just makes me feel meaningless. I would rather do something valuable like become a teacher, nurse, police officer, etc. But I'm not motivated to go to college, mostly because of my work schedule.

What should I do? Just keep working until eventually everything becomes automated in 20 years and we get universal basic income, or start taking online classes at community college to become something valuable to society?

>used to live with Dad until I was 24
>made a little more than him
>my Dad
>has $200 bill due in a week
>only has $150
>doesn't call me to ask for $50 (I would be glad to help him out since I don't pay rent and feel bad sometimes)
>blows $150 on stupid shit like a bearded dragon and cages that dies 2 weeks later because he doesn't take care of anything
>asks me for $200 to pay the bill

>meanwhile
>literally has thousands of dollars worth of junk in his yard
>goes to auctions every weekend
>has 17 lawn mowers
>4 snow blowers
>3 generators
>etc.
>why can't you just sell off 90% of this stuff you don't even use to pay off your debt
>"that's good stuff"
>"hey can I borrow $20 for gas I can't make it to work and I have no money"
>after spending the weekend traveling 3 hours to an auction and buying $200 worth of more junk

There was nothing I could do to fix him, so I just had to move out. He ended up finding some insecure landwhale with disability checks to leech off of.

Cut contact when I was 19. They were all drug addicts that only wanted to "borrow" money. I'm 22 and moved to another state. Still keep in touch via Facebook but I always ignore calls and say sorry I'm busy 2 days later.

Mom is still homeless even though she's cleaned up and is an Assistant Manager at a hotel now. Grandma still doesn't help her out. I always feel bad for her until I answer the phone and realize how much of a bitch she is.

Uncle got divorced by his fat whale wife. Ended up going to some meme rehab for depression.

Brother got into drug dealing and is probably going to end up in prison soon because he's retarded and posts about it on Facebook like he's some hot shot.

Sisters are 16 and 14 now. They try to act like my Mom. Pretty sure both will be pregnant before 18.

Dad is still a degenerate that never works. He just finds fat ugly insecure women that work and gives attention to them and they pay for his sorry ass to exist.

Literally have no idea how I was born into this family yet have a 133 IQ and was the only one ever to go to college. God has to be real.

Why aren't we sentencing baby boomers to death? They've ruined the economy 3 times. They've made the entire world hate us. They've literally contributed nothing.

Just sitting with my Grandparents makes me want to bludgeon them to death.

>only work 3 days a week (12 hour shifts)
>make at least $20/hour

What should I do? The only thing I can think of is nursing.

I'm 28

>had free lunch
>alternated between the same 2-3 outfits
>only had 1 pair of shoes
>couldn't afford to play sports or join any clubs
>only got a haircut like once or twice a year
>never had video games or computers so couldn't relate to what all the other kids were going on about
>was 14 when my Mom finally got me a used Gameboy for Christmas
>played Gameboy all the time sitting in my room
>when the batteries died and my Mom couldn't afford batteries I would cry
>had 0 friends
>end up dropping out at 16 because parents couldn't afford the fees on books I lost from the library
>got my GED
>moved in with Great-Grandma
>took care of her until she passed away at 19
>she left me like $5,500
>bought a car and about $1,400 left
>signed up for community college
>went for about 2 months until I got financial aid checks
>took that money and my savings and ran away
>ended up in Texas
>found a room for rent
>got a job
>worked 12 hour shifts in a factory 5-6 days a week
>did nothing but sleep and wonder if life was worth it
>started smoking 2-3 packs of cigarettes a day
>ended up making friends with a Muslim guy
>he ran his parent's store that I always went into
>started spending time there playing video games on his laptop
>he ended up helping me find a better job
>he helped me enroll in the college he went to
>started going to counseling
>got on depression and anxiety medicine
>ended up getting a 2 year degree in business management
>supervisor at the factory I worked at
>making $28/hour working 3 days a week 12 hour shifts
>rented out a townhouse
>bought a new car
>bought a boat and storage
>still best friend with Muslim bro
>start going out more to football games, baseball games, etc.
>dating girls
>finally experiencing life and smiling and laughing for the first time in my life

Is living in a trailer park as really white trash as Hollywood makes it seem? I know Florida has a ton of trailer parks, but then again it's Florida.

I'm 24, make ~$2,500 a month after taxes, and will likely never improve as I only have a GED.

I'm thinking of buying a trailer in a trailer park as it'll suit my shitty life well. Looking at a mobile home community about 30 miles from my job. It seems to be mostly older retired people but a few single Moms with kids and normal looking people. All the yards looked well kept and didn't seem white trash at all. But they have a rule where trailers older than 20 years aren't allowed in the park. Would I be better off buying a cheap home around here instead? Probably couldn't afford more than $150K through a mortgage and that would get me a crack den or 900 square foot home that doesn't even insulation or heat.

I really don't want to be a rent cuck for life. I rent a home right now. Can't even paint my walls without getting permission first. Can't plant fruit trees or grow a garden. I feel like I'm paying $850/month for somebody to tell me how to live. I don't want to move into an apartment having to deal with the noise of neighbors, no garage for my little boat, no land to grow a garden, etc. It would be like jail.

I'm doing some /diy/ stuff for organizing my fishing gear in my garage. Haven't worked in almost 4 weeks now. Longest I've taken off since I've been an owner/operator for 3 years. I usually go out for 2-3 weeks then take 1-2 weeks off. Have NET six figures all but my first year. I mostly go fishing or do /diy/ shit and sell it or give it away. Also take my wife shopping for pointless shit. She teaches at an after school program but doesn't even make $20K a year.

My dream is to go off the grid. No utility bills, grow most of our fruits and veggies, fish and hunt for most of our meat, and live the simple life. Only go out driving once or twice a month to supplement our lifestyle. But I doubt that would ever happened because I'm getting cucked by my wife and the DaQuan is makeup and clothes shopping.

Still got a 7/10 life going on and I'm happy.

>own a small business
>work afternoon on a saturday
>literally have nobody come in in the past hour and a half

Anyone knows these feels?