Christian

If you go to UofT or UW and your first full-time job is in the US, kindly add $200K to your tuition to reflect how much of your top-tier education was subsidized by Canadian taxpayers, and keep TN the same.

Why is matchmaking expensive? To illustrate, here’s how I’ll lose money on a client’s $49,000 package. Client is 46, 6’2, exited tech founder. He’s looking for a woman 27-33, very specific criteria around match personality, appearance, and profession. Without diving into specifics, she: • Isn’t easily searchable online... • Isn’t likely to reply when we find her… • Isn’t likely to be single… • Often has a deal-breaker trait we can’t screen for without a phone call… • Isn’t necessarily interested in my client… I was expecting this to be a difficult search, so I quoted $49,000. I wasn’t expecting ~100 hours of labor to find each match, not including communication with the client! To date I’ve spent $45,000 on salaries for the women staffed on his search, plus $2,750 on styling and photos, and we still owe the client 2 matches... Before considering overhead (let alone opportunity cost) this will be a huge L financially. Things balance out though. Most engagements are profitable. Some engagements are quite profitable. For example, a new client in NYC paid $30,000 and paused after his first match, because he’s 99% sure we found his wife. That's still a new relationship, and engagements last 9 months (6 months of active matching + up to 3 months of pause), so we could be on the hook for more work in coming months. But you get the point 🙏

Didn’t want to post this, but here it goes. Think I’m going call it here. Taking a serious break from trading and social media… I love trading, and I have a passion for it. However, these past few months, trading has been less enjoyable and actually stressful. I’m a pretty chill guy, and I don’t get stressed, but am definitely stressed out from trading recently. It’s affecting me mentally and emotionally. It’s getting to the point where trading dictate my mood for the day, and my family sees it. They don’t deserve to see me in a crap mode, because I traded like crap. I’ve been trading options for 4-5 years, and futures for 1.5 years. For the first time in those five years, last year was profitable and I was so ecstatic about it. Imagine being unprofitable, and then turning profitable. Best feeling yet. But, I think it’s time for a break to do some damage control, and to reset myself. Never really took a break at all cause I was hungry all the time. But now I’m probably going take a few weeks, or even months, or hell maybe longer whenever I’m ready. My ultimate goal for trading was to financial provide for my family and actually spend more time with my family, but blowing accounts recently has not really done really financial good for me. I guess that’s the reality of trading in a drought right? Shit, I don’t want to even post this post to be honest. It’s embarrassing to say the least. But I’m being honest and vulnerable to ya’ll. It’s just the other side of trading reality that no one really talks about. Never proclaimed to be a trading guru, or anything like that. Just simply a random guy, trying bring some extra bread on the side. Anyways… Writing this made me tear up a little bit, cause I know I have it in me, but it’s not clicking. So therefore, I will take a much needed break. Going just grind it out with nursing, and pay off some of these expenses I’ve occurred. I guess the good thing about taking a break is less time I’m on my phone watching charts. And more time spending with my toddler and newborn. Sorry for the vent, but maybe I’ll look back at this post in a year or maybe years and see how far I’ve come. Anyways, love yall, and hope you guys kills it. This is not forever, just temporary. Peace out.