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While I can't give you any advice beyond the usual (sellside/buyside etc), I can give a strong endorsement to military background as desirable in finance. This business has plenty of young, energetic and smart people who know programming and math aplenty. Even calm under stress is abound...

Yes indeed :) To quote my old-time CBOT broker: "You're Jewish, right? On the floor we had lots of Jews. Lots of Irish. Irish would drink like fish. Lots of Italians. They'd do coke. But the Jews would do both!"

How else do you get paid? Since you talk to clients, I have to assume you are on the sell side. Good for you. On the sell side you only get paid if you know how to play politics. Even if you made a ton of money for the firm, the actual payout in that good year will vary with the quality of your...

Yup. I think I'll get more likes then if I post about volatility :)

If someone says "I'll have sex for money because I need to feed the kids" it's usually accepted as a true, selfless sacrifice. In case of "I'll have sex with someone just to get out of the ghetto" the sacrifice is more implicit (probably because no cash changes hands) but it's the same...

It's a sacrifice all right, though, not any different then many other things. Hell, I allow people to fuck my brain for prolonged periods of time because there is money involved

Yes! Finally someone else sees this too! To quote a very smart young lady that worked with me "at the time, I would've fucked anyone to get out of there, but nobody was around". There are plenty of people that are willing to try hard and do anything to get out of poverty, yet they are still there

I would not agree with him there. A key question to this thought process is the source of return on your risk leg. S&P500 is a risk premium product, you are getting paid for taking volatility of [equity investments, economic environment etc]. Private equity, as a rule, is pitched as an alpha...

Getting an small RV, actually. It's gonna be me and my dog for 3 months, really looking forward to it! So far I decided to go with the solution suggested by Kevin, just feels like it's the right kind of setup.

Yeah, my intuition tells me driving too, maybe because of the forces/speeds involved :)

Right, but per mile traveled, would you say that driving or sailing is more dangerous?

That's an interesting question - do you think that per unit of travel sailing is safer than driving?

I would not know what to do with it and there is a fair chance I'll end up killing myself :) my plan is to tick most of the rock climbing and hiking bucket list instead

Its an interesting idea - all charges are per-use. If I only use it for a few hours a week, it's dirt cheap. Seems like a winner to me

The rule of thumb is that anything over 20% of ADV should move the price. There are standard ways of estimating how much, that's what block desks do

I seem to go through laptops like they are made out of toilet paper (killed two of that in the span of a year) and it's likely to get even worse on the road. I am going to setup downloads for the updates, but that's not a crucial aspect.

Maybe, but it's hard to go anywhere with any kind of house :)

They also offer domain registration in the same stop, which is nice. I just discovered that a bunch of coffee shops around the US and Canada do not like connecting to numerical IPs, which means I need to have a domain of my own :/

I've never dealt with this technology, could you elaborate a bit? PM me if this too involved for this thread

Thanks everyone, now I'll go back and do the legwork! Any additional things I should consider that I failed to list? Main reason is that it sounds like I have a non-compete period coming up and I am considering #vanlife. In which case, I'll rent my place out and have no place for the server.