Quit Your Job to Trade Stocks?

That’s an article in The Futurist magazine likely to be of interest to many of us who are retired or otherwise unemployed, underemployed, or unhappily employed.

Also, it’s not a bad idea for those who will be replaced in the workplace by automated equipment, whether by super-capable humanoid robots or some other machinery.

In my latest book, I point out that some futurists are predicting a jobless society because of across-the-board automation.  For more about jobs in the future, go to:

http://www.wfs.org/content/futurist/march-april-2012-vol-46-no-2/hard-work-jobless-future

Sooner rather than later, I think, politicians and business leaders and more economists had better start working on ways to sell machine-produced goods and services to national and global populations of people with neither jobs nor the ability to pay for what automation produces. So:

If you aren’t yet comfortable with the idea of earning a living by being a do-it-yourself portfolio manager, maybe you need to revisit the idea, learn to be a successful investor while you still have money to invest, and teach your children and grandchildren to do the same. For more, go to:

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/09/how-to-trade-for-a-living.asp?utm_source=basics&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Basics-7/19/2013

For more about my eBook, My America 1931-2031: An Editor’s Take on America’s Most Astonishing 100 Years, go to:

http://www.amazon.com/My-America-1931-2031-Astonishing-ebook/product-reviews/B00BPD0TUM/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

But first, let’s take a brief time out for fun from long ago—Jimmy Durante performing onstage with the Harry James band:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1nxvOl7sc