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Echo34 · 11-19-2008, 11:46 AM

I want be become a stock trader because it resounds with my values of independence and freedom. However...

Concurrently, I'm mid-way through a college degree that I totally detest because it stinks of a prep-school for the corporate rat race.In fact, I choose my course because I intitally thought it could teach me about making money from the stock market, but economics turned out to be all math and model building. I"m still in school, as a backup plan, just in case the stock trading fails. But everyday is a drugedy as I procrestinate and do the minimum just to pass.

Here is the problem..I know that i dont give my best in school because I'm negatively tuned out already. But knowing I have school committments (homework, projects, exams) and not following up on them makes me depressed. As if I'm letting the "heck-it" part of me destroy the "excellence" value that I uphold deeply. Since I decided that college is not for me, but I have choose to stick with it, I feel like I"m destroying myself by living with a conflict of values. Truthfully, I am so disgusted with myself that I decide to put myself through this torture.

I am in a fix as to whether i should burn the bridges (quit school) and focus on trading, or do both concurrently.

So, I'm a stock trader now with some inconsistencies that I'm trying to figure out. Interestingly, I trade best on days when I've decided to put in the effort on my school work first. Sometimes, I feel pressured to trade and succeed so that I can just quit school, while in fact, this very attitude affects my performance. I know that I have all the successful ingredients ready and developed, and the last thing required is a sound mind free from worry about my next assignment due (of course, last minute work because of the procrestination), or the spill-over from a bout of self-reproach for the unresolved dilemma regarding college.

As I see it, quiting school puts me in a vulnerable position of having no back up plan. At the same time, staying put and performing badly affects my self-confidence and my trading performce. Finally, the workable solution seems to be to study well, so I can trade well.

Right? But somethings feels wrong about it and I cannot bring myself to do it. It is saying "do the thing you hate, so that you can do the thing you love".

Is this is valid way to live? Or is there another path that I cannot see?

Thanks for your comments!

11-19-2008, 11:46 AM	#1 (permalink)
Echo34 Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 8	Trading and College I want be become a stock trader because it resounds with my values of independence and freedom. However... Concurrently, I'm mid-way through a college degree that I totally detest because it stinks of a prep-school for the corporate rat race.In fact, I choose my course because I intitally thought it could teach me about making money from the stock market, but economics turned out to be all math and model building. I"m still in school, as a backup plan, just in case the stock trading fails. But everyday is a drugedy as I procrestinate and do the minimum just to pass. Here is the problem..I know that i dont give my best in school because I'm negatively tuned out already. But knowing I have school committments (homework, projects, exams) and not following up on them makes me depressed. As if I'm letting the "heck-it" part of me destroy the "excellence" value that I uphold deeply. Since I decided that college is not for me, but I have choose to stick with it, I feel like I"m destroying myself by living with a conflict of values. Truthfully, I am so disgusted with myself that I decide to put myself through this torture. I am in a fix as to whether i should burn the bridges (quit school) and focus on trading, or do both concurrently. So, I'm a stock trader now with some inconsistencies that I'm trying to figure out. Interestingly, I trade best on days when I've decided to put in the effort on my school work first. Sometimes, I feel pressured to trade and succeed so that I can just quit school, while in fact, this very attitude affects my performance. I know that I have all the successful ingredients ready and developed, and the last thing required is a sound mind free from worry about my next assignment due (of course, last minute work because of the procrestination), or the spill-over from a bout of self-reproach for the unresolved dilemma regarding college. As I see it, quiting school puts me in a vulnerable position of having no back up plan. At the same time, staying put and performing badly affects my self-confidence and my trading performce. Finally, the workable solution seems to be to study well, so I can trade well. Right? But somethings feels wrong about it and I cannot bring myself to do it. It is saying "do the thing you hate, so that you can do the thing you love". Is this is valid way to live? Or is there another path that I cannot see? Thanks for your comments!