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StartTheMachine
02/08/21 5:56:04 PM
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red sox 777 posted...
Congrats on the 100k! God bless America and bull markets.

The American justice system fucked me over for the longest time, I find it fitting that some of my biggest wins have been in companies with "American" in the title - AVCT and AMC - in return.

I was in an accident back in 2012 that was my fault. I have bad astigmatism which would cause my contacts to move around a lot (got LASIK now baby), and I was rubbing my eyes to put my contacts in place when I stupidly pulled out of a Subway in the rain, thinking I could see well enough, just to crash into another vehicle. I wasn't paying insurance at the time as it had recently expired and I couldn't afford it, but somehow the state didn't know and they hadn't revoked my license for not being insured. Now obviously I take full responsibility for driving uninsured, but getting my license back proved to be a way more ridiculous ordeal than it had any right to be.

I owed $4600 to the people I hit, on top of more court fees, to get it back. I tried to apply for a work license, but Tennessee laws are backwards enough that I couldn't even get one of those. So I was in a catch-22 where I had to work to make money to get my license back, but had to drive to work to make money in the first place. I was in a cycle for years where I would get a well enough paying job, but they were always 30 minute plus commutes away, then I'd end up getting pulled over just before I made the sum of money I needed. Of course this just added on new charges and made it harder and more costly to simply get my license reinstated.

This happened multiple times and I went to jail a bunch, always literally just trying to go to and from work. I only got my license back in early 2019 after family members stepped up to take me to my shitty $9 an hour job close to where I live, which I only kept long enough to make the money I needed for my license and bounced.

After all that bullshit, you can imagine how good it feels to be where I am now thanks to my trades. All of those experiences and shitty jobs only made me yearn for financial freedom more, and are probably a good reason behind why I've made the moves I have in the stock market.

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