I have such a passion for anything financially related.
Seriously, I am like a kid in a candy store when I’m on cnbc or reddit business or just reading some of my fellow pf bloggers good posts.
Books and Real Life
I think I may have mentioned this before, but I was a finance major in college (yes, while I was day trading). I was book learnin’ while I was real life learning.
I love looking at how people use money. I love seeing how people talk about money. It has such a profound impact in our life (both good and bad!), it’s truly amazing.
My Writing Future
So what does this mean for debtkid.com? Well, it means I want to expand myself a little bit here. Up until this point I’ve pretty much been writing more own personal journey with my debt issues. I will continue to do that, but I really can’t write every day about that…it would get really repetitive.
What I can do is share my thoughts/advice/warning on everything else finance related. I will continue of course to track my own debt journey, and any (albeit) unlikely dates that may happen in my life.
I love writing blogging
I’ve discovered that I truly love writing. I’m not a fantastic writer, but I know I’m getting better. And I want to continue to improve. I’d like to grow the blog beyond just my loyal readers following my personal story.
New opportunities
I’ve applied to be a writer at Wisebread. I’m hoping that I will get accepted there soon. I applied last week, but haven’t heard back yet. I would earn some extra cash from my writing there, so that would be helpful as well.
I’ve also thought about contributing some articles to seekingalpha. They are a very popular multi-author investing site and I think I could writer some killer posts about day-trading mistakes from my own experiences.
What do you think?
What do you guys think? Can my past mistakes and lessons I’ve learned be helpful to others? I’m going to try writing more often, but if it’s not in my best interest (and my mothers), or just a waste of time, I won’t bother.
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Definitely not a waste of time — doing something creative that you love will only boost your productivity in other areas, spark new ideas, help you gain perspective, etc.
I say Go For It! I always look forward to reading your articles… while you may not think you are the greatest writer yet, you have a style that allows those of us who don’t know a lot about the investing side of finance (i.e. me!) to understand it better.
That is a great idea! I’ve enjoyed reading your posts here and on Lending Club. Your life experiences have given you a lot of insight into debt and making a living – two things that almost every single American can relate to! It looks like your posts on short sales have already helped some people, and I’m sure you’ve got a lot more that would be helpful in future posts!
@ Helgi – good point! @ Laura – Thanks, I’ll keep working on it!
@ Zach – Awesome, thanks for the encouragement.
I’ll also have an updated debt spreadsheet for my readers here soon. I made some larger payments this week as well as updated all my physical paper folders.
i like reading your blog, you write from the heart. keeo writing!
You have so many things going on, i.e. business debt, personal bankruptcy, tax probs, debt to your mother, etc. Your writing is interesting but could be better organized. How about a schedule–this is only a suggestion. Say you write on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri/Sat. You could have something such as Mondays-business developments, tax issues, customers, products, etc. Wednesdays could be personal finance i.e. paying personal bills, how the bankruptcy is affecting you, paying your student loans paid, getting future credit. Fri/Sat, concentrate on other situations, such as girlfriends, social stuff, keeping up with your Otherwise, have you gotten a firm estimate of how much you owe the state revenue, I assume for payroll taxes? I’ve seen you use a couple of different figures. Are you still staring at a Federal Tax Lien?
I’m not body slamming you but I can’t imagine you have a degree in Business Finance; that in itself sort of worth commenting on.Did you get caught up in the excitement of trading or was it some type of research project as a part of your degree work gone crazily awry.
@ the Wolf – great suggestion about a schedule. I like that. The more structure I have to things the better they go for me.
The state tax debt is actually a revenue tax. In Washington state they don’t have a corp. income tax, or state payroll tax, but they do have a pretty steep revenue tax. It’s actually kind of lame, doesn’t matter if you lose a ton of money that year, your tax is based on revenue and nothing else. But, it is what it is.
I owe currently to them: 3115. I just paid $500 on the original balance of 3615. That # includes 2006/07 balances. I have a check for 07 of about 1K ready to send out, hopefully later this month.
I started trading actually well before I became a finance major, so when I was taking finance classes I thought I was hot stuff because I already knew 99% of the stuff being taught. At least in the stock/markets type classes. I would actually even be in class checking quotes on my phone, or take bathroom breaks to run to the computer lab during class. It was pretty bad.