How I Became This Stock Obsessed Crazy Person I No Longer Recognize (in a good way)
My Life Before the Stock Market: For my entire adult life, I’ve always had this overwhelming sense of dread when it came to my financial future. As a teacher, I’ve struggled to support myself and have had to work one or more various side jobs just to stay afloat. When the pandemic hit, I, like so many others saw it as just another financial setback at a time in my life where it finally felt like I was getting on top of my credit card debt and turning things around. All of a sudden, I lost my side gig (serving at a restaurant) and my credit cards were back to being maxed out. It felt unfair, as if the financial gods were out to get me. And the kicker for me was, I did everything right. “Go to college,” they said. “It will pay for itself,” they said. “You’ll never be able to get a decent paying job without it.” Well there I was in my not-so-decent paying job, which also required a masters’ degree (more money wasted) living in serious debt in the middle of a worldwide crisis, t...