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Keanu Estrada
3 min readOct 27, 2021

If I’m not doing it, who will do it?

If I’m not doing it right now, when shall I do it?

If I’m doing it only for my own self, what am I?

“Any human being is concerned with something out there in the world, is concerned with someone out there in the world.” — Victor Frankl

My plan going into the stock market in 2020 was to buy 30 shares of Tesla

I actually had enough money to buy 36 shares of Tesla in 2020. Cost — 14k

If I waited for a year, I would have 36k, a 24k gain in one year!

Kicking myself for not sticking with the plan.

Also, If I literally didn’t put a limit order on my call option the other night, I could have exited the trade with 100% profit. I’m sick 🤮

Self-inflicted wounds

Fell asleep and woke up with a headache today.

U wouldn’t want to punch yourself in a fight.

Don’t leave your job, this is how you make money.

I proceed to leave 5 jobs, in a pandemic, due to unhappiness.

Selling at a loss when I could have sold at 100% profit.

Thinking tomorrow the price of the contract would go down but it continued to go up.

At least I didn’t lose everything tho.

I didn’t have to take a loss.

Didn’t believe in it after a year of holding.

Patience.

All the signs point toward me being a bad trader.

Congrats, you got your degree!

Here, work some minimum wage jobs, you won’t like, and will quit because you feel you’re much better than that.

Even the part-time I’m at right now, with the Golden State Warriors organization, something I consistently dreamed of as a teen — I feel I still can do much better.

Don’t leave this one. You always dreamed of working for the Warriors.

What’s after basketball?

I didn’t come in this world to work remotely or work, in general, for corporations that don’t give a fuck about me.

You’re gambling. You’re buying high. You’re putting all your eggs in one basket. You should invest in a retirement fund or an IRA. It’s going to go down and you’re going to lose a lot of money. This is true, I lost a couple thousand. Hold, why are you selling, long-term investing remembering? The ups, the downs.

If I stayed down I would have won. Trust. In 2020, I bought 30 shares of Tesla, and wouldn’t sell until it hit 1k. It took a year to hit 1k, and that would of been 20k profit, easy. I didn’t stick to the plan. L

FOMO is not a strategy.

Nordstrom Warehouse was my easiest work ever.

Shit was gravy. :’) but soul snatching…

Too bad they couldn’t accommodate me any longer. [expletive]

The toughest job I ever had was canvassing for people to donate money because not only do you have to sell but stand for a really long time. this was my first job, which made the next job easier to get.

The next toughest job was being a census enumerator because going door to door alone is scary. Shit boring too. I ain’t never gon sell out to the politics.

Working at Whole Foods was tough too as a dishwasher because you had to stand for 8 hours and wash all the dishes, but it was rewarding because I liked my team, and my team liked me back. This has been my most rewarding job.

Working at Amazon as a prime shopper was me being a robot and taking orders from an app to get customers' food. It was a pain in the a$$, and miserable because my shifts were at 3 am. Glad I moved on.

It’s driving me, working in an organization I always dreamed of and knowing I’m capable of much more.

It’s driving me, on a starting salary, knowing I’m capable of much more; even with Mild CP.

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