What to tell people I do instead of saying Day trading?

traderday321 said:
Crazy Question - I'm wondering if other traders have run into this? I feel stuck what to say when I get "what do you do for a living"? I really feel like keeping it to myself and not share that I day trade futures for my own account. I want to be minimal, since people associate the word "day trading" to gambling, high risk, etc. I feel it could affect my trading when they claim day trading is risky or don't think its a real job. The reality is that with proper risk management trading can be safer imo than buy and hold investing.
I really don't feel like justifying myself, especially to those 95% who don't have any clue about the markets and even those few that may have an idea about markets but know very little about trading. Also I've noticed most are just interested in your bottom line/profits, and not really your journey into trading which takes a lot of screen time, analysis, experience, patience, knowledge, losses etc.

Any input on this?

Thanks!
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just google for any rehab center near you. When somebody asks what you do>

you say, "i'm a recovering addict at (insert rehab center), so i'm out of the job right now"

they'll say, oh i'm sorry. What were you on?

You say "fentanyl, m30 pain killers"

Oh wow..how's it going?

It's going great. just going through the steps, you know.

Hope you recover soon

Thanks.

Wanna jump in the pool?

SURE!
 
MacBookProHo said:
Traveling is a vastly overrated experience, in my experience.
Whether you go to San Francisco, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, NYC, Tokyo, Hawaii, Australia, Phillippines, Ireland, Canada.....it's all....literally....f'n the same.
All places....have airports, hotels, roads, streets, shops, cafes, Starbucks, McDonald's, nature sights, and people on their cellphones everywhere.
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And when you go outside of this "sameness" zone, you get mugged, robbed, shot at and killed. Yup we are really in a Matrix. Everywhere we go, it's the same old fake shit. Now I know why people take drugs because you are dying anyway, of boredom.

The only time traveling makes sense is if you are meeting with someone that really cares about you and touched your soul at one time. That's the only time that traveling is worth it especially during this day and age with all the pandemics and everything.
 
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SunTrader said:
There ya go. Thanks for providing a prime example of someone who needs to travel. Or travel more than you have or to different places than you've gone to.
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Sorry to burst your bubbles but they have Starbucks, McDonald's, hotels (very nice ones too), airports, roads, streets and the likes in your so-called places with "diverse culture" as well. And people there are on cellphones too. Look who are the bigots spewing out all the prejudice and discrimination?
 
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Millionaire said:
No thanks i will leave the likes of Somalia to you democrat voters to visit.
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Somalia is one of the few truly free market economies in existence. No socialism! You are truly on your own. And fully open carry! If you are a good guy with a gun you would have lots of opportunity there. So it's more of a Republican destination than a Democratic destination. Europe generally is more of a Democratic destination as that is what most Democrats aspired to.
 
albion said:
Somalia is one of the few truly free market economies in existence.
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Ilhan Omar land...maybe keep your eyes on your children and your head on a swivel during your visit to shangrila...

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Embassy until the Democrats freed the country, thanks. ...

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