Comment on success

• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mostly the second.

  Sometimes you hit the first then the second.

  People think they’re skilled when they’re just lucky and keep rolling the dice. Or they try and have a comeback and throw good money after bad.

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• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was a futures trader for six months back in the roaring '90s, fortunately not using my own money. At the end of it all, I had exactly broken even – less the commissions paid on all my trades. So for me it was like flipping a quarter except I was charged a nickel for every flip. Meanwhile my boss (whose money I was trading) was down $100K over the same time period.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Did your boss end up blowing strangers behind dumpsters for 20?

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, he was rich enough that $100K (plus the tiny amount of money he paid me) didn’t really mean anything to him. The amusing thing was that he was friends with a bunch of San Francisco venture capitalists worth hundreds of millions of dollars and he was just burning up with jealousy despite being worth millions himself and owning a business that paid him about $40K a month – a state that any normal person would be thrilled with.

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  rich or blowing strangers behind dumpsters for 20.

  Or both, if you’re so inclined 🤷

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m too scared to place bets that wild.

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