Some questions to those making a decent middle to upper middle class living as traders who have not reached millionaire status yet:
In our society especially in major cities a person social status is determined heavily by their current occupation, right or wrongly.
While it is obvious what the social status is of a brain surgeon or mcdonalds worker, I am wondering how people view self employed traders both for friendship and for relationships.
Being a self employed trader does not fit into any unique occupational class since it has some white collarish professional elements, blue collarish elements, and even pro gambler elements to it.
While I know that every situation is unique and every person is different from your experience, how are mom and pop traders treated socially and in dating as in:
1. What social circles are you accepted in? For instance, if you go to a cocktail party full of doctors, lawyers, and i-banking analysts are you accepted as a fellow professional? Even though trading is a not a traditional business, would you be accepted at some entrepreneurial type function?
2. These days both men and women are to some degree influenced by the social status of a person of the opposite sex.
Of course everyone knows of women that prefer 60,000 corporate types to 200,000 plumbing contractors, yet my best friend from college is obsessed with the fact that his wife to be is a lawyer!! Many people prefer white collar mates or blue collar mates.
My question is, when dealing with the opposite sex, how are you placed in terms of relationship status: Are you viewed as the equivalent of a high prestige professional, viewed as an ordinary small business owner, viewed as blue collarish, viewed as having an unstable source of income equivalent to pro poker, viewed as lying about the source of your income, etc.
I guess the more direct way to sum it up is say how does a guy who earns say 125,000 a year say trading ES(doable) stack up in the dating market compared to say a lawyer earning 90,000 , a corporate middle manager, earning 70,000, a plumbing contractor earning 100,000 etc.
Any replies would be appreciated.
Thanks
In our society especially in major cities a person social status is determined heavily by their current occupation, right or wrongly.
While it is obvious what the social status is of a brain surgeon or mcdonalds worker, I am wondering how people view self employed traders both for friendship and for relationships.
Being a self employed trader does not fit into any unique occupational class since it has some white collarish professional elements, blue collarish elements, and even pro gambler elements to it.
While I know that every situation is unique and every person is different from your experience, how are mom and pop traders treated socially and in dating as in:
1. What social circles are you accepted in? For instance, if you go to a cocktail party full of doctors, lawyers, and i-banking analysts are you accepted as a fellow professional? Even though trading is a not a traditional business, would you be accepted at some entrepreneurial type function?
2. These days both men and women are to some degree influenced by the social status of a person of the opposite sex.
Of course everyone knows of women that prefer 60,000 corporate types to 200,000 plumbing contractors, yet my best friend from college is obsessed with the fact that his wife to be is a lawyer!! Many people prefer white collar mates or blue collar mates.
My question is, when dealing with the opposite sex, how are you placed in terms of relationship status: Are you viewed as the equivalent of a high prestige professional, viewed as an ordinary small business owner, viewed as blue collarish, viewed as having an unstable source of income equivalent to pro poker, viewed as lying about the source of your income, etc.
I guess the more direct way to sum it up is say how does a guy who earns say 125,000 a year say trading ES(doable) stack up in the dating market compared to say a lawyer earning 90,000 , a corporate middle manager, earning 70,000, a plumbing contractor earning 100,000 etc.
Any replies would be appreciated.
Thanks
also they build no resume as daytrading is just participating in zero-sum game. professional poker is the same way.