I lived through the NYC dot-com boom (and was 1/2 block away from 9/11l the 2nd plane literally flew over my head) and managed to come out without having bought Netscape or Yahoo or getting rich like some of my friends did. NYC taught me what a monetary speculative feeding frenzy looked like. After 9/11 my GF didn't want my jobless ass anymore so I ended up buying a truck (cheaper than renting a U-haul) and driving back up to Canada.
From there I vowed never to miss another "wave" again. I knew that unlike Ben Franklin or Isaac Newton (tulip bubble) I would see more waves in my lifetime, that they'd come super much faster. I bought $80k of BTC in 2014. You can do the math from there. I am 55, I retired at 49 years old and I don't miss working or having a job at all, not one bit.
Yeah, 143 is decent, pretty high, but I don't ever pat myself on the back for it. God lumped all my intelligence in one or two categories. I feel like I'm hardly well-rounded (in terms of EQ or social skills), just really majorly lop-sided. I'm a ninja at 90 things and absolutely shite at so many things that count. That said, I do decent at making high quality (sometimes even world famous) friends. Excellence recognizes excellence. I'm going back to Egypt here in a few weeks to participate in some archaeological digs and basically forget my life as I know it now.
I'm retired, too.
I lived through the NYC dot-com boom (and was 1/2 block away from 9/11l the 2nd plane literally flew over my head) and managed to come out without having bought Netscape or Yahoo or getting rich like some of my friends did. NYC taught me what a monetary speculative feeding frenzy looked like. After 9/11 my GF didn't want my jobless ass anymore so I ended up buying a truck (cheaper than renting a U-haul) and driving back up to Canada.
From there I vowed never to miss another "wave" again. I knew that unlike Ben Franklin or Isaac Newton (tulip bubble) I would see more waves in my lifetime, that they'd come super much faster. I bought $80k of BTC in 2014. You can do the math from there. I am 55, I retired at 49 years old and I don't miss working or having a job at all, not one bit.
Yeah, 143 is decent, pretty high, but I don't ever pat myself on the back for it. God lumped all my intelligence in one or two categories. I feel like I'm hardly well-rounded (in terms of EQ or social skills), just really majorly lop-sided. I'm a ninja at 90 things and absolutely shite at so many things that count. That said, I do decent at making high quality (sometimes even world famous) friends. Excellence recognizes excellence. I'm going back to Egypt here in a few weeks to participate in some archaeological digs and basically forget my life as I know it now.