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"... I became interested in the market. Many people lost money -- but some became very rich. Why not I?"

Alcoholics Anonymous
Bill's Story
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I relate to this part of Bill's story in a couple of different ways. Upon graduating from college I tried to get a job as a stock broker with all the top investment houses. How naive I was to think that they would entrust the fortunes of their wealthy clientele to a kid fresh out of school with no applicable experience. So, I took their advice and went and got a few years work experience under my belt and then I got a shot at my dream job.

I now realize that my attraction to the stock market wasn't about the dealings of big business or high finance, but rather a lust for easy money (or so I thought). My motto was, "Work smarter, not harder!" And to my twisted way of thinking that meant things should come easy with little effort if I could just find the right angle.

When I was drinking I could deny the fact that my immature attitude toward life wasn't working. I'd conjure up grandiose scenarios where I was a captain of industry with fame and riches. The insanity of my "drinking thinking" had me convinced (as it did Bill) "...that men of genius conceived their best projects when drunk; that the most majestic constructions of philosophic thought were so derived."

Of course, the truth was quite different and I was about to receive a cold slap of reality in the face.



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