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Family Embezzlement
Apr. 3rd, 2008 09:22 pmWow... a friend's post got me thinking about what happened with my college fund... which a couple of you may know about. I always avoided the math, to figure out how much I lost... but did the math today.
Instead of $864,000 in Microsoft (in 1998) plus another $60k or so in other investments (that started out many years earlier with $12,000), there was $322.14 in the bank account. That's fine though, because I learned the principles of how to build wealth from the same person who took my success for his own. Oh, I love to hate him. I also hate to love him.
I did it once, I can do it again. Just have to do it right. Again.
When I come back from deployment, you can count me in on chasing the stock market... not as a day trader, necessarily, but using buying and selling points. I just have to find the next Microsoft, I guess.
Instead of $864,000 in Microsoft (in 1998) plus another $60k or so in other investments (that started out many years earlier with $12,000), there was $322.14 in the bank account. That's fine though, because I learned the principles of how to build wealth from the same person who took my success for his own. Oh, I love to hate him. I also hate to love him.
I did it once, I can do it again. Just have to do it right. Again.
When I come back from deployment, you can count me in on chasing the stock market... not as a day trader, necessarily, but using buying and selling points. I just have to find the next Microsoft, I guess.
