Ok. Well Its starts out somewhat normal. Went to college. Decided it wasn't for me. Could not sustain a proper living environment, so I went back. Graduated college at 31 years of age. Felt like my life was about to change. Got a decent job that paid fair wages. Took that moment to start building my life. Got a new car. Got a house. Started playing in the stock market. Started working on a family. All of this started in 2007. Well we all know what happened in 2008. To make a long story short.......I lost my job and have not been able to find anything permanent since. I am negative in the stock market by $43,500. I do not possess a new car anymore. I barely am able to make the payments on my house. I have a 8 month old daughter that I am trying my best to help take care of. It bothers me as a person that a college degree really didn't guarantee me anything but additional bills and it bothers me as a man/father that I cannot take care of my daughter the way that I would like to and I have done what society states is needed to have a good life in America. At the current moment, my activities are limited because I just cannot afford to do them. I sit on Etrade all day long and just look at my portfolio hoping that one of my many bad picks get reverse merged into or have some kind of good news and increase enough to throw me a temporary lifeline.
Since I joined IHub, I have always saw this group but could never figure out its purpose because when I checked it out, no one was really talking about stocks. So I paid more attention to the other groups that talked about stocks all day long. Took me a while to realize that those groups are full of pumpers and they really don't care if I lose my money or not, just as long as they can get either money and get out even. I am a bag holder on about 93% of my stocks and have major regrets at times of even becoming interested in the stock market. I could go on and on but that is the gist of my story.
I have read that the Den has turned alot of people's lives around and I am at a point where this may be my last resort.