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universitythrowaway - Anyone else feel like they're not made for the 9-5 life?
I'm in my mid 20s in north america now working corporate in the tech field for a few years making between 100 - 200k. The 9 - 5 life bores...... [more]
Shut the fuck up and get your six figures bro. Work is supposed to suck, it’s work. If you hate it that much just be a minimalist and retire young/jump to a different career when you’re a hundred percent sure you can sustain your lifestyle AND your career is ready to the point where you can jump seamlessly.
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@deeplydisturbed Have any hedge funds beaten the market long term? Renaissance claims its employee only fund has earned gigantic returns since the 80s yet its funds offered to outside investors haven't done so great. Simons's CIA background makes me think it is a front for drug and arms sales money. Other hedge funds do well for a while then sink to mediocrity. Larry Mendelson isn't well known but did fantastic as an individual investor , well enough to take control of Heico.
@deeplydisturbed presumably its highly leveraged and that is where you get the huge percentage returns. Spot a strong down trend backed by market fundamentals early and buy highly leveraged contracts to short the market. This works very well in commodities and would work with options in stocks but is very dangerous if you mess up on the trend.
If you get it right it is a self feeding effect all the way down. The bigger you are the better the self feeding effect as people crap themselves with your short sales. JP Morgan in silver is a great example of how to do it over the years. All the small investors pay for JP Morgan's occasional pay day. Right now I think anyone buying silver is going to do this. (I sold half my holding the other day which means what is left is paid for out of profits from the half sold. I won't buy till they have rinsed the market again but I still hope to sell the other half for more, if not its still free silver).
Read MoreThanks, but that doesn’t answer my question.
As of today, the two ways to beat the markets (reliably, not just luck) are:
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Have inside informations (Hello Congress - looking at YOU)
- Security selection (AKA Stock picking)
But hedge funds have their ways and it is my hope that one person here might give me a hint or a clue. I am trying to build a model to enhance my performance in the markets. getting 20% returns is great, and pretty hard to do, but there are better ways for much bigger gains.
Right. There have been times in my life I felt absolutely horrible about women and then a girl showed me another guy's game.
It's quite illuminating
@Vermillion-Rx Sometimes one can feel down about one's experiences with women and then a guy like that comes along and shows you there are some living so much worse lives.
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Anyone else feel like they're not made for the 9-5 life?
I'm in my mid 20s in north america now working corporate in the tech field for a few years making between 100 - 200k. The 9 - 5 life bores me. I've been diagnosed with ADHD around a year ago and have been taking meds when I want to focus. It helps. But it still doesn't motivate me to care about the company goals, performance, vision etc. I see my coworkers talking about the company performance every few months and it bores me. I just go to work and do the bare minimum.
Sometimes I find myself catching up on missed work because during work hours I'm thinking about other things. I like creating apps, websites, and other things that I see a direct impact on the community from. I like side hustles. I like socializing and doing my hobbies. I can focus on things I like when I want to solve a problem. I want to build something of my own and not work for someone else.
Anyone else had a similar experience? What did you do?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrjylHI-zwU
This is a tiresome non-issue guys constantly feel some need to whine about as if anyone cares.
Shut up, work your job, repay your debts, build up your savings, and maintain a list of the things you actually want to do with your life where you will regularly see it. When you're ready, resign from your job and move on to something else from the position of F.U.
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Reply To universitythrowaway - Anyone else feel like they're not made for the 9-5 life?
I'm in my mid 20s in north america now working corporate in the tech field for a few years making between 100 - 200k. The 9 - 5 life bores...... [more]
I’m 30 and I also work in a corporate tech job, similar salary and all that. I had exactly the same realization at 27 or so. Did the whole changing to a different job in tech and all that, but still boring. A few things that worked for me…
1: realize that once you’ve learned how to do your corporate job, most days you really only need to do about 4 hours of work each day. The rest is either pretending to work or just plain boring. It’s depressing, but better to accept it how it is than wish for something better.
2: what really helped me was finding things outside work to care about. For me, that was a tutoring side hustle, and competitive running, like trying to win races and improve my times. Try different hobbies/hustles out and see what sticks.
3: there’s huge benefit in staying in the tech industry for a few years and saving up. With the savings you can get fuck you money/buy a house/start your own business. And a key advantage you and I have that older people in tech have: we aren’t tied down by marriage and kids. My 60 year old mentor is bored too, but his wife refuses to work (and could never make 6 figures anyway). Remember that our boredom is a luxury. Did I mention that you shouldn’t get married? Yeah, it’s a trap in more ways than one.
Bonus: never date/fuck/relationship with a woman at work. Besides the usual HR risk, tech girls are masculine and don’t look up to you ie they don’t respect you. I went on 3 dates with a girl at work once, she was a raging feminist (despite wanting to take a few years off to make babies lol), and I never even got a kiss in, let alone a fuck.
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The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics: How Conservatism and Liberalism Evolved Within Humans
Why do people adopt different political ideologies? How can seemingly equal intellects, presented with the same facts and circumstances disagree so vehemently over how society should be structured? What psychological undercurrents guide people to adopt Conservative or Liberal political beliefs, and where did they come from?
The answer lies in a well known concept in biology, termed r/K Selection Theory. r/K Theory examines how all populations tend to adopt one of two psychologies as a means of adapting their behavior to the presence or absence of environmental resources. The two strategies, termed r and K, each correlate perfectly with the psychologies underlying Liberalism and Conservatism.
One strategy, named the r-strategy, imbues those who are programmed with it to be averse to all peer on peer competition, embrace promiscuity, embrace single parenting, and support early onset sexual activity in youth. Obviously, this mirrors the Liberal philosophy’s aversion to individual Darwinian competitions such as capitalism and self defense with firearms, as well as group competitions such as war. Likewise, Liberalism is tolerant of promiscuity, tolerant of single parenting, and more prone to support early sex education for children and the sexualization of cultural influences. Designed to exploit a plethora of resources, one will often find this r-type strategy embodied within prey species, where predation has lowered the population’s numbers, and thereby increased the resources available to it’s individuals.
The other strategy, termed the K-strategy, imbues those who pursue it with a fierce competitiveness, as well as tendencies towards abstinence until monogamy, two-parent parenting, and delaying sexual activity until later in life. Obviously, this mirrors Conservatism’s acceptance of all sorts of competitive social schemes, from free market capitalism, to war, to individuals owning and carrying private weapons for self defense. Conservatives also tend to favor abstinence until monogamy, two parent parenting with an emphasis upon “family values,” and children being shielded from any sexualized stimuli until later in life. This strategy is found most commonly in species which lack predation, and whose population’s have grown to the point individuals must compete with each other for the limited environmental resources that they are rapidly running out of.
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Reply To universitythrowaway - Anyone else feel like they're not made for the 9-5 life?
I'm in my mid 20s in north america now working corporate in the tech field for a few years making between 100 - 200k. The 9 - 5 life bores...... [more]
I think there are a lot of people like you who end up running their own businesses. Some well (doing their stuff makes them focus well and they enjoy it), some badly (they still can't focus enough). You could give it a try. Easiest way is to get a trade.
I am not really a 9 to 5 guy and have run my own business for a couple of decades now. Success is getting enough of what you need from life and most of what you want. Status is harder to get in small business. Some make it big and get plenty of status but for every one of them there are just a lot of ordinary folk running small businesses. So long as you are Ok with that you can walk away from the "career" and make your own path with a few different income streams. You may be surprised how many corporate slaves are jealous of you. I am always reminding them that it looks good but I am the one responsible for everything and I don't have a salary.
One thing that you may well find when you step away from a directed path is that you actually have to become a lot more accommodating of others not less. I did anyway. While I was a teacher I had to reach my students' minds but that was all, so long as I arrived on time and marked the homework. When I was a gardener/ maintenance guy I just had to go to work and get cold and wet. I really had very little I had to do for others except my job. Once I got my own business (doing a trade) I suddenly had to take each customer as I found them, listen to them and meet their needs. I had to forge relationships with people who worked for me and with suppliers and to treat them well. It made me grow a lot as an individual. Some don't manage this and business then may not work out for them.
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