How do you plan for a side project?

Soon2Bgreat said:
Subaru...be thankful it's not head gaskets:p
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Dodged that bullet -- the lighting and the head gaskets improved dramatically from '99-00, and when I had an issue that was going to run 'big bucks' to address, I swapped in a late model JDM (Japanese Domestic Market -- 30k-40k miles, plentiful and cheap) engine entirely. Sweet!
But that reminds me, too, that it's about time for me to do the timing chain/etc. There's a $1000 expense. Ugh. But, it'll last another 3-5 years, fergawdsakes. Hard to argue with that: 30mpg, full-time AWD, new brake everything, beauty-ass Michelins, and timing/water-pump. Yeah.
 
tommcginnis said:
Dodged that bullet -- the lighting and the head gaskets improved dramatically from '99-00, and when I had an issue that was going to run 'big bucks' to address, I swapped in a late model JDM (Japanese Domestic Market -- 30k-40k miles, plentiful and cheap) engine entirely. Sweet!
But that reminds me, too, that it's about time for me to do the timing chain/etc. There's a $1000 expense. Ugh. But, it'll last another 3-5 years, fergawdsakes. Hard to argue with that: 30mpg, full-time AWD, new brake everything, beauty-ass Michelins, and timing/water-pump. Yeah.
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Teehee, at least Subaru isn't as cheeky in advertising as Saab was. So you have that going for you.

 
Overnight said:
Teehee, at least Subaru isn't as cheeky in advertising as Saab was. So you have that going for you.

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I do love my rebadged Vauxhall, I mean SAAB :)

3hour commute, Train or Car if train/bus then a 4G/3G Tablet of some description, trade while you travel ??
 
tommcginnis said:
Dodged that bullet -- the lighting and the head gaskets improved dramatically from '99-00, and when I had an issue that was going to run 'big bucks' to address, I swapped in a late model JDM (Japanese Domestic Market -- 30k-40k miles, plentiful and cheap) engine entirely. Sweet!
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STi swap into a GDB? JDM swaps were great into anything 02-06.

Just had my gaskets done at 170k along with timing kit, clutch, etc. Mine's an NA though so any turbo swap was out.
 
Overnight said:
Hehe. This one cuts off a tad early, but it reinforces your point.

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Got to love them...

Mot soon, some twat hit my bumber, wrecking my squirty water bottle, pumps not working might be fuse and wires dangling from the fog lights, maybe pump, job for the weekend :(

Other than that 160k on the clock, shes fine, old 2003 93 2.2tdi
 
(Now that we're completely off point....)
In 1994, two days (it turns out) before my sons were born, their mom and I bought a 10-year old Volvo 240 GL wagon. Knowing my penchant for 24-hour drives, curvy roads, nasty conditions... We'd shopped around for a car that had rear-wheel drive, "feel" in the steering and braking, usage flexibility in its design, and a layout that would facilitate long-term ownership/maintenance. The 240 was a perfect fit.

About that time as well? This new "fad" thing called "S-U-V" -- a "sport" AND a "utility" vehicle. It was huge. Huge!! And I'm thinking, "Wait. Aren't they describing a station wagon? Aren't they describing a Volvo wagon, even?"

Sweeeeeedish brick. Loved *that* car, too.
 
Aquarians said:
It's almost a year now since I started working on both my job and my trading software during the same day. Several lessons I learned:

1) There's never going to be a better time than exhaustion after 12 hours of day job (8 hrs regular time, 1 hour lunch break, 3 hours commute). If you rest, you will indeed wake up refreshed in the morning, just in time for another 12 hours in the Gulag.

2) Rinse and repeat. After a while you figure out you'll either die in the Konzentrationslager or you gotta fucking find time for working on your exit.

3) Goto 1: the hours you put after the 12 you put for the Corporation are not, in any way, similar to the hours you put for the Corporation. If you don't get that, you'll die.

OK, that's my experience. Yours?
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I had been trading stocks for ten years and doing well, huge bull market of 80s, thought I try commodities and day trading. I changed shifts to evenings think I get off at 2:30am and get some sleep before Bonds/currencies opened, I don't recall ever going home at 2:30, told to stay till 5:30 six days a week for years, get home in time to turn on PC and learning/trading till noon and sleep till 4:30pm, my one day weekend never even noticed if it was day or night, just stayed in my cave till bell sounded to drive to work. This went on for seven horrible years till finally I figured out some things. Kept that job for seven more years as fear seemed to not allow me to quit job even though had very healthy bank account, not till I couldn't lift ten pounds as my body was just plain sore and mind exhausted. It amazing what some of us will do to accomplish our goals, too far back to consider if it was right thing to do, but do feel a sense of "knowing". You got to really love the game to keep going.
 
Part-time trading is best done on a higher time frame (daily, weekly). Since you will suffer larger drawdowns and losses on a daily time frame than an intra-day trader who is monitoring the market in realtime, your strategy needs to include some form of hedging. Either an explicit hedge or a spread trade with an intrinsic hedge. In other words, you need to become an expert risk manager.
 
>> You got to really love the game to keep going.

Can't say I dislike it, I'm doing it since long enough to figure if I were to quit I would have done it already. Besides if I quit trading it's not like I'll live happily ever after, I still have to push through my day job whose nature is that I'm constantly having to solve abomination after abomination. Hard, unexpected, impredictable bugs, with no way to guarantee that I'll fix the one I'm working on currently, let alone that previous experience guarantees in any way future performance. With the threat of losing my job if I don't and the reward of being thrown another batch of crap at, if I do work out the current one.

So job is exactly like trading, except there's no upside, no light at the end of the tunnel, only perpetual torment. So don't worry, I keep trading.
 
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