Since I'm listed as one of your homies, I'm going to be brutally honest here. Take this however you want, but it's meant to help you.
You are not special. You have no extraordinary skills playing the stock market. And you are simply throwing money away gambling. It sounds like you have a gambling problem. Just because you won $500 gambling doesn't make you special. Especially since you lost most of it last night. That's the thing about gambling: You win some, you lose some. You just tend to lose more than you win. But it's those times you win that give you the false hope that you could support yourself or make money off of gambling. Same holds true for stocks, for you. You have proved nothing except that you shouldn't be messing around with the stock market.
You are 22 and talk about how you have all of this extra disposable income, yet you live at home. And there's nothing wrong with living at home. I did it until I was 24. But I saved that extra money and put it in the bank. Living at home and not saving is moronic.
You have so many pipe dreams on what you're going to be doing in the next 5 years and how much you're going to be making. Yet all you do in the present is waste money and smoke weed. At 24 you hope to be an Assistant Manager of a local Walgreens. And you think you're going to be rolling in the dough. Have you asked any Asst. Managers at Walgreens how their finances are? Are they living high on the hog? I'm guessing not.
You have no concept of money and expenses. And you are a lost cause. Everyone on here, including the people who are now being mean to you, at one point or another tried to give you real advice. And each time you not only refused it, you told them they were wrong.
The world is littered with people just like you. People who have dreams of grandeur and plans worked out to get them there. And in 2 years, if you see those same people, they'll still be telling you how they're going to make something of themselves.
I really want you to succeed. I'm really hoping you start taking some of these guy's great advice. I, too, was addicted to gambling when I was younger. And I don't really gamble any more. But if someone bet me money that you'd be still living at your parents and hoping for a promotion at Walgreens in 2 years, I'd take that bet.
It's time to grow up. It's time to realize that you are not special. That you are not a prodigy. But there is still time to become special. As long as you make the right choices. But time is running out quick for you.
Sadly, I know none of what I said will sink in to you. And I'm sure you think I'm a jerk for saying these things. But I'm doing it because I'm really rooting for you now.
What the #### more do you want from me? I work full-time, go to school full-time. I am getting promotion after promotion by working hard at my current job. I am an Honors Student over at Baker.
I save 25% of my paycheck by investing in Walgreens Stock. A stock I get to purchase at 10% discount. A stock that has gone up 20% on top of that 10% discount.
REALLY MAN. WHAT THE #### MORE COULD I POSSIBLY BE DOING?
I don't spend anymore than I have to. I sportbet because it's fun and plan on allocating $50 each paycheck to make a small check. What the #### is your big gripe with me? When I get paid this Thursday, my NET WORTH will be in GREEN for the first time in over a year.
SO CLUE ME IN. WHAT THE #### AM I DOING WRONG?
I am getting an Associates Degree this Winter.
I am likely getting a promotion a year from now.
I am likely going to be going to a University next Fall.
Do college kids not have fun? Do college kids not smoke weed? Enlighten me of my big mistakes, brohan.
