While I'm in the mood to tell who I am, I'd like to tell all the reason I'm here today still posting. My first few years was hard, personally. Was newly devoiced had 4 kids to take care of and couldn't climb the corporate ladder and raise them at the same time. Money became very tight! and $2k was alot of money after quiting my job and becoming a self-employed, single parent. That needed to be close to home every day.
After leaving the Navy, did some college, then some marriage, then some child producing. Climbed the corp. ladder from field service tech, to manager of sales and marketing. Had a class A personality, couldn't go 15 minutes without looking at my watch, everything was organized and in order and spent half every year in airplanes and in different cities.
When I had to give all that up and I started making money working for a living again. Being a boss IMO isn't work. LOL I would try anything for cash. The stock market became my biggest challenge. Never failed at anything I attempted until the first go at trading.
I can remember sitting in front of the computer, looking up and saying why me! If only there was someone out there that could help me learn this stuff. I event had trouble finding a good broker, in the begining. Back then I was posting on raging bull and that was a crap message board. All about alph males and board hierarchy. Everyone was more involved in being powerful and controling the flow of company story line info, then anything about trading at all.
Found IHUB was much better, but still NO help learning. It's still all about the company story! After maybe a hundred times looking up and saying "only if I could find some help" I finally started to produce more wins then losses.
That completely empty, I'll never master this, feeling haunted me. And I started this board so there would be someone helping. Not talking about company stories, not posting tic by tic wooooow to the moon. Not agreeing or being pounded for bashing. Some place to ask questions and get answers. Some place to be told what you don't event know, you didn't know yet. Some place to learn.
Obviously I'm not that type A personality any longer. I've got all this chit in my head and after many attempts, can't find a way to organize it, to get it out in a understandable manner.
Usually I don't recall stuff, until someone at the board posts something that makes the info pop out from the back of my head. Age has given me many senior moments. Where I have trouble organizing things mentally.
I can't spel worth a chit and love run on sentences. But I lost my secretaries when I quite my job. So there's no one to make me seem smarter then I really am on paper, any longer.
At any rate, now readers can get an idea of who I am and why I'm here. I'm here because I wanted and needed someone to be there for me and there wasn't. I hope I help others. Because I've been there. Both in corporate management with money and huge goals and I've been a little guy just hoping for some help to make things a bit easier.
I've come to the conclusion in 64 years, the real way to happiness and success in life, is to find a way to be happy with what you have! But a little more always helps. LOL I'm one of the lucky ones, always been happy in life.
Wish all the same in 2012
