Ken Rideout

And I was like, I'll do that.

And I mean, it was like $36,000.

I had a rent apartment.

By the time I paid all my bills the first six months, I had like $50 left over.

I was like, how am I going to do this?

And I was like using credit cards and surviving.

But for some reason I had this insane delusional self-belief that I'm like, I'm going to figure this out before the money runs out, before I like really get too deep, I'll figure out the next move.

So I was always like in a job and not a career.

And I'm like, I'm going to figure it out.

Met this kid in finance and I saw all these guys working in finance at the gyms that I was training at because I was always exercising.

And I was like, these guys are dopes.

If these guys are making money doing finance, that's what I need to be doing.

So that's how I end up in finance.

And then I'm working on this trading desk and very quickly start establishing myself.

It was like kind of like the law of the jungle there.

Like you had to be aggressive.

yeah but we weren't talking to like retail investors we weren't talking to like individuals we were talking to institutions you couldn't be like right no one was lying and stealing like you'd get this was highly regulated like legitimate finance and so we were trading with enron and goldman sachs and like we weren't

running people over.

No one was, but we were making a lot of money.

And so when I get the new job, making 80 grand, now I'm covering Enron as my client.