getting into the trading arena does not require selection, one simply has to fund an account, tell your family and neighbors: "you're a Wall Street Trader", as if wow happens, and then lose money, similar to your story.
Submit yourself to an interview with one of the professional trading firms, touted on this Trader's Forum, and see what their assesment of you, your trading potential (since we can fully discount your presumed skills as being worth -$70,000), your future as a trader, and your ability to pass the Series 7/63.
If you can't do that, then 9-5pm isn't so bad afterall. Buying one of those much maligned trading chatroom memberships and following/making trades in stocks that were just called, might be your only ""profitable"" option.
Short of that, all the good intentioned comments listed on these pages for your thread won't do you any good at any future point, because they simply don't tell you what you want to hear. At this point, self introspection, which is what Trading Psychology is all about, continues to condemn your desire to trade, however, you defiantly refuse that advise, so then the happy compromise is to let someone in person tell you, by means of the interview process.
Good job hunting, because, you do need professional help!
-- both in your trading skills, learning process, discipline and expectations
-- BOC (but of course) this all presumes that you have more money to poor after your desire/effort, while you live on other monies to pay your expenses
