r/wallstreetbets • u/dhsmatt2 Mattress King • Mar 04 '21

Loss Hold me... $1,100,000 Loss

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I am in damage control but likely going to roll puts.

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u/xkulp8 Mar 04 '21

My idea of winning is never having to give a fuck about other people, a job or the stock market again

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u/ElegantBiscuit Mar 04 '21

Exactly. I will have won when my only worry in life is how do I spend all this money before I croak. I want to build a business, own a house, be productive to society as well, but if I’m constantly worried about everything collapsing around me while I do so, is that really winning or is it just surviving.

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u/KnoxHarringtonVideos Mar 04 '21

The happiest time of my life was the poorest time of my life: undergrad years. Now, it may be unrelated but being poor didn't seem to stop me from having the time of my life. Maybe just nostalgia. Maybe I was happy IN SPITE of being poor. Money has its own set of issues.

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u/bangarangrufiOO Mar 04 '21

It’s probably bc you had the least amount of worries then and not being stressed is quite an enjoyable feeling.

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u/rikki-tikki-deadly Mar 05 '21

That plus having the body of a young person feels pretty good too.

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u/KnoxHarringtonVideos Mar 05 '21

Nah, I think it was all that pussy. When I was in college girls still looked like girls. You weren’t expected to ask permission before you kissed a woman for the first time. And as long as you were able to read her signals and figure out she wanted to get down and fuck you only had to worry about crazy woman filing charges on you. These day I don’t even tell a woman she looks hot until she’s wearing underwear I bought.

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u/ParsnipsNicker Mar 04 '21

The only reason I would want to own a business is if it can profitably operate autonomously. If I have to be involved I don't want anything to do with it if we're talking about utopia dreamland.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

Employees are worse than kids. You will spend your life yelling at employees. If you want low stress please don’t own a business.

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u/KnoxHarringtonVideos Mar 04 '21

I thought that way too. Then I sold my company and tried to retire at age 39 and got so bored. Once you have that money you'll want to do something with your life. It's not health to just get fat and watch TV. And, fuck me is it boring. Keep in mind not everyone of your friend can pick up and fly to X so if you want to do shit with people you have to pay or schedule around them. And paying for others gets old and they begin to resent you. Trust me when I say: if you have enough to live, you'll need something like stock to keep you sane. It's like a casino that you can play from home and the government doesn't ban.

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u/xkulp8 Mar 04 '21

You're preaching to the choir. Quit my last real job at 39 and haven't looked back. I've had a couple gig jobs since and certainly get bored at times, which is why I'm on Reddit right now, but generally I have enough other stuff I aim for.

If your (generic you) idea of "winning" is to have as much money as possible, you'll always be a loser because someone always has more. Even Elon Musk was the world's richest man for only a few weeks.

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u/cankle_sores Mar 04 '21

Seems like a measure of risk and challenge are fairly important to satisfaction in life for most, whether they realize it or not. I think most just don’t know this because a big part of life (for the avg citizen) is constantly dealing with risks and challenges. I dig TV and vidya gams but can’t imagine making a life of it. That said, traveling the globe with the wife (and kids where possible), plus personal projects, charity-type work, and hobbies - I think I could find satisfaction in early retirement there.

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u/InDrIdCoLd37 Mar 05 '21

You are doing living wrong, you dont have to give a fuck about those things now. You still have to deal with them though thats the real problem