Trader Meetups (Part 3)

This blog mini-series was inspired by an invitation I received to a “Meet & Greet/Business Card Exchange” extended to traders.  My last post introduced some thoughts and experiences of an advanced student directed toward a beginning student in an option education program.  Please review the contents here.

His response concluded as follows:

> We can easily live on my wife income alone but her family sees me not working and
> staying at home.  They ask about me.  We have decided not to tell them about my
> learning to trade options.  It could be opening a can of worms.  It stresses her out.
>
> I have thought about finding a job to keep myself busy and to look good to the
> family but I don’t want to get back into my old profession of telecom… they bleed
> you dry.  I would be frustrated and not be able to apply myself to trading as I am
> now.  I have even thought about applying to an Edward Jones or Merrill Lynch
> but I don’t think that I will do anything at these places other than get on the
> phone or hit the streets to bring in clients rather than learning to trade.
> I have even thought about selling cars at a dealership just to keep busy.
>
> I wish I could find a job that could supplement my learning to trade options,
> but not hinder my current trading.
>
> Hence, the other side of the fence is not as green as you might think.

Rarely do I read something in a forum and feel inspired to follow-up publicly.  I certainly did in this case, though.

I will give my response in the next post.