And if you’d told me about the stock market back then, chances are I would have written that off, too…
After all, in my head, I thought anyone who traded stocks had to be a numbers wizard or an economic expert!
But after seminary, I wasn’t finding a job in a church right away, and a friend reached out about starting as a part-time blogger for his financial website…
I didn’t know one single useful thing about the stock market, but I knew I could research things, learn the basics, and write an article about them.
And that’s what I did for months until… well, the markets sort of started to make sense… it was honestly a little scary!
Over time, I got to know the markets better and better, and the deeper I went, the more interesting they became.
That’s still true, by the way! There is so much more I want to explore and learn about.
But even still, as I learned more about the market, I kind of barred myself from actually becoming a “trader.”
After all, I had to be rich to start that, right? And I still had to be a math wizard?
But folks… none of that’s true!
And while I’ve only just started to dip my toes into the waters of the stock market, I really think it will be an obsession of mine for the rest of my life.
And it’s not because I love math or know a ton about stock reports. It’s because the kind of logical problem-solving that I always loved in every other context is just as beneficial in the stock market! Maybe even more so!
Because while writing a 2,000-word essay about the symbolism of swimming trout in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (something I actually did) might be a lot of fun (to me)...
The old “adage” is right: there ain’t much money in that.
But when someone asks you to do some digging into his strategy for targeting $200 every morning the market opens and you get to figure out how and why that works? Well… that’s a different story.
Oops! I guess I let a little bit more on Geof’s strategy slip out… but that’s it for now. You’ll have to wait a while for the other juicy details!
Hope you’re having a good Wednesday!
To your prosperity,
Stephen Ground
Editor-in-Chief, ProsperityPub
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