Rant Lite this week. I got beat up right at the end of the week. I put up the week’s reward but the Opportunity was not forthcoming. It lead me to ponder if there were many other Careers, Professions or Jobs that required one to put themselves on the line for every single moment that they decided to engage. A soldier? He gets paid live or die. Pro Sports? They get paid win or lose. Golf? hmmmm not sure here. There may be some professions but I don’t think there are many. Not like being in the market where it is possible to fall on the knife at every moment. The only thing keeping one from completely wiping out one’s account is, well, the desire not to. Where the very desire to win can expose our personality flaws and frailties; giving us a glimpse of the magnitude of our deficiencies. In the face of all this, we soldier on, convinced the we can beat the odds and make the necessary adjustments required to be consistently successful in the Market. (One good Market Opportunity does not a career make) “And this above all unto thine own self be true and it shall follow as the day the night – thou can’st not then be false to any man.” – William Shakespeare. Selah.