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I just got a weekly newsletter from Joe Ross. He suggests that you keep your conversations about what you do for a living low key. That telling people, "I make my living by speculating in foreign currencies," is a bad idea. It puts pressure on you, you have to live up to your reputation, people may want to hear about your success stories, it gets harder to admit you are on the wrong side of a position and to cut your losses......
Well what do you tell people you do for a living, if you don't admit you are a trader? (Not sure that's quite what Ross meant, - but I can't imagine any low key way to say, "I make my living by speculating in foreign currencies.")
I mean, this seems really awkward. I have no desire to blather to anyone socially that I am even *studying* the market, in hopes of trading in the future. I just think it would be exhausting to have to continually re-explain what it is that you do to people who won't have the slightest clue of what you are talking about...
Is there some pleasantly dull euphemism that is appropriate for social occasions where you are likely to be asked, "and what do you do?"
JO
Well what do you tell people you do for a living, if you don't admit you are a trader? (Not sure that's quite what Ross meant, - but I can't imagine any low key way to say, "I make my living by speculating in foreign currencies.")
I mean, this seems really awkward. I have no desire to blather to anyone socially that I am even *studying* the market, in hopes of trading in the future. I just think it would be exhausting to have to continually re-explain what it is that you do to people who won't have the slightest clue of what you are talking about...
Is there some pleasantly dull euphemism that is appropriate for social occasions where you are likely to be asked, "and what do you do?"
JO