Life after prop trading

What opportunities are available for someone who has traded prop for a few years. I'd imagine the risk and the uncertainty becomes too great once someone has a wife and kids to worry about. Is prop trading like a dead end job or will it provide other opportunities to advance in the investment and trading field?
 
Quote from burritobob:

What opportunities are available for someone who has traded prop for a few years. I'd imagine the risk and the uncertainty becomes too great once someone has a wife and kids to worry about. Is prop trading like a dead end job or will it provide other opportunities to advance in the investment and trading field?

Sorry for being a smart ass, but you can pretty much sell burritos Bob.
 
or do what most former prop traders do. sit home and pop pills to forget why they are living in a cheap apartment and living day by day because they are broke. then wonder why you did'nt get a normal job with benefits or open a business that at least had a chance in hell.
 
every successful trader i know is completely unemployable at any job.

Take red_ink for example. Havent seen him put to use that formal education anytime recently. I suppose he is an expert at replacing his space bar, but that doesnt normally require an electronics degree :) LOL

unsuccessful traders that have stopped trading i knew from the past seem to have adjusted to normal live quite naturally.
 
Quote from Szeven:

every successful trader i know is completely unemployable at any job.

No way! Here's some jobs for traders I know:

Male gigolo
Professional dirtbiker
Pervy lifeguard
Professional free t-shirt collector
Selling companies to Ebay
the list goes on...

As you can see there's a whole world out there of easy, fun, high paying jobs!
 
Quote from Dustin:

No way! Here's some jobs for traders I know:

Male gigolo
Professional dirtbiker
Pervy lifeguard
Professional free t-shirt collector
Selling companies to Ebay
the list goes on...

As you can see there's a whole world out there of easy, fun, high paying jobs!

Or maybe a comedy writer for a late night comedy show. Ya know, the Top Ten List for Letterman or somethin like dat.
 
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