Career Update (Part 2)

In the last post I explained how much of what I do during my work day may be seen as an inefficient use of time. When I feel this way, I look toward other things I might do to improve that efficiency.

For the most part, my work day consists of blogging, listening to trading calls, reading articles on trading strategy, backtesting, trading my own account, and managing positions. The latter two items are solely responsible for profit generation. These two items also take much less time than the first four.

While all this is taking place, in the background I have a short list of untapped interests that includes:

1. Assembling a group of talented high school students who want to learn about investing.
2. Collaborating with a business student to develop trading systems in exchange for
    discussion about my 6+ years of experience in the business.
3. Hiring a freelancer to teach me the ins and outs of a system development platform
    enabling me to do the work myself.
4. Working to develop an approach to day trading futures.
5. Organizing an option trader Meetup where experienced traders share ideas and/or
    research.
6. Managing money for others.

When income generation is consistent, part of me feels I should revel in the moment as a successful entrepreneur and just work hard to keep doing what I’m doing. I feel thankful for this opportunity and will ride the wave as long as I can. I’m a big believer in Karma and to this end, I feel it couldn’t hurt to “give back” while I am enjoying personal success. This is the motivation behind items #1 and #5.

Items #2-4 are more transparent with regard to income generation.

That leaves item #6 for my next post.