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also, scared money loses. if you're cool with blowing out then you're fine. are you going to be fine if your not just losing your money but also blowing through aunt sallies money as well?

3 eur for lunch...five bucks for a great wine?? where exactly is it that you live? i'd like to visit ;o)

trading companies love people like you - and in return for your expertise they'll give you lots of money and give you a look behind the curtain. behind this curtain you will find many problems you can solve for many companies (that are all kind of related) willing to invest absurd amounts of money in solutions.

you should do the income based repayment right away. it will take some of the stress off.

You could also sell your house. If you skip a payment or two, the bank will probably start begging you to do a shortsale. In which case you rent for a year or two to fix your credit, and then buy another place.

ive never used them, but indochino seems like a trendy startup type company you might like.

You've made five total trades?

or cheating--the oracle knows all about that.

I'll rephrase for hassy. "investing" is for suckers. the only people making any money in the market are professional traders who aren't at all making decisions based on "trends" or "fundamentals".

see: dynamic hedging by nasim taleb--a book that sits on many professional traders desks in which taleb makes more than a few points about trading.

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impostor syndrome sounds like modesty to me.

depaul is decent, but expensive.

I think you are over worried about your educational background, and its kind of messing with you. If google or anybody thought your background was crappy, you wouldn't be interviewing there at all.

virtu, jane street, knight

fooled by randomness - nassim taleb.

his books get progressively worse, but this one is excellent

Everybody hates their first year (or 5) at a top tier investment bank. since everyone is telling you to bail, ill tell you to bite the bullet and quit only after you get your bonus...or even your second one. most people I know take jobs at firms like yours because of what they can do after they leave...not because it's the greatest job in the world.

Nah, I don't think she (or you) should be required to be interested in your job.

I sometimes try to explain things to my girlfriend to see if I actually understand them. If I can make her understand the concept--then I feel like I know what I'm talking about. She'll listen and play along, but it's boring to her. Thats fine. She's a law student and I do the same for her, but I think contracts and crap are as boring as she thinks algorithmic trading is and that's fine too.

We both spend all day with people who love that stuff. After recapping our days, there's plenty of other fun stuff to talk about and do. The key to making it work is we are both able to tell when the others eyes are starting to glaze over. Before you try forcing it, try to imagine a two hour discussion about paint brush selection or something you could really care less about.

I assume if you succeed you'll be loaded. what is the potential cashout if you suceed? $10M? $100M? $1B? 6% of of 1B is not really drastically different than 10%. I think what matters most is the idea.

I am a big fan of Hayek (not exactly von mises, but close). Hayek himself was very wary of demogogery, which is something that I often see from austrians, and from Schiff.

Further, Schiff seems to think that he personally has the ability to "fix" the economy and make it work properly. IMO A liberal (economic liberal) single all-knowing leader who wants to plan the economy (or anything, really) is just as dangerous as any other central planner.

id like to read the study you cite that shows a correlation between tight monetary policy and GDP growth. can you link it?

yes to term limits

only those who are not ultra wealthy would be screwed if pauls policies were implemented. thats not to say i support keynesian ideology, either. i have met (an increaing amount) many people who somehow think they are set for a full economic collapse because they have "significant" amounts of their assets in gold. imo unless "significant" is in the 10s of millions, one can expect near instantaneous impoverishment.

fooled by randomness

workout some. helps me clear my thoughts when im feeling shitty. and im not a jock, and i hate working out. I've been doing it everyday for a month now after deciding to make time for it and its make a huge difference.

with a clearer mind and more energy you will probably realize your situation doesn't suck so bad and think of ways to solve it.

I'm interning at a trading company which has this policy. It seems to work well. Most traders want to be at work and trading when the time is right so they can make money. It's fairly slow over the summer, so lots of Fridays/Mondays are being taken off right now. Also, everybody is in teams so they have to coordinate it so that at least one member is always around.

From a business owner standpoint, as long as its self-policing it seems like a good way to keep people happy. From an employee standpoint I would believe it to be to truly unlimited in this type of situation. If there aren't teams or the profit you generate for the company isn't bunched into short periods of time, I would be leery to just take off for a month + while everybody else is still working. I think it would result in less vacation being taken since nobody would want to look lazy like provoost touched on.

I agree, and also fight for more tangible responsibilities. No offense, but its hard to sell a business owner on why your copy writing is worth X-more dollars than some other guys. Sales or code or ideas that have been implemented with a tangible profit are helpful when asking for more money.

It's not that ridiculous. What happens when they decide the great services shouldn't be free anymore since there is no competition. Even Hayek hated monopolies and argued that rules and government intervention were needed to defend against them.

no

what a waste of time. i cant believe i commented before reading this...

this. and I went to a shitty school.

I think this is part of it. The people who would have to write/design the visual programming system think that it is for losers and are thus not interested in working on it. Most hardcore coders I have met are quite proud of their chops and kind of brush off those who can't cut it (which is fine imo).