Showing posts with label dreams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dreams. Show all posts

Saturday, September 26, 2009

One day I'll be on a list




I'm reading the latest Inc magazine and it has the Top 30 under 30 list
Guess as I am 31 I will never be making that list!

Source Image: Inc website

But also reading Fortune magazine and saw the Top 50 most powerful women.
This sounds like a great list to aspire to be on. The youngest woman was age 37.
I have a chance...but a slim one here


Source Image: Fortune Website

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

what's in a dream?

I had a crazy dream when I was on a mini vacation...different surroundings I guess.but this dream was so vivid and seemed to suggest a path forward...a new career? A new way of thinking? Maybe too much cheese at dinner? (I had the 5 cheese pasta at olive garden - yummy!)

-The Dream-
I returned to work after vacation to find there was a major event that day - the 50th anniversary of Disney and they had hired our campus and had David Beckham as the guest speaker.
There was auxio with invites and turned out no one turned up. I was the handler for Beckham as I knew who he was and wanted his autograph.
But when I met him he turned out to not be very nice and did not respond well to my chatty questions and comments about his life.
Well I ended up ignoring him and playing with some kids. I made them a cheese sarnie whe all hell broke loose with Beckham.
I called him sooily and that he probably did not manage his money very well especially as his football career would not last forever...
Somehow this earned GPA respect and he requested I give him finance advice bevaude I knew the US and UK markets through the CFA and Actuary qualifications I have.

And hence a career as a financial advisor to the famous and keep-rich clientele was born.

A new career? Feel free to call me Posh & Becks!

what's in a dream?

I had a crazy dream when I was on a mini vacation...different surroundings I guess.but this dream was so vivid and seemed to suggest a path forward...a new career? A new way of thinking? Maybe too much cheese at dinner? (I had the 5 cheese pasta at olive garden - yummy!)

-The Dream-
I returned to work after vacation to find there was a major event that day - the 50th anniversary of Disney and they had hired our campus and had David Beckham as the guest speaker.
There was auxio with invites and turned out no one turned up. I was the handler for Beckham as I knew who he was and wanted his autograph.
But when I met him he turned out to not be very nice and did not respond well to my chatty questions and comments about his life.
Well I ended up ignoring him and playing with some kids. I made them a cheese sarnie whe all hell broke loose with Beckham.
I called him sooily and that he probably did not manage his money very well especially as his football career would not last forever...
Somehow this earned GPA respect and he requested I give him finance advice bevaude I knew the US and UK markets through the CFA and Actuary qualifications I have.

And hence a career as a financial advisor to the famous and keep-rich clientele was born.

A new career? Feel free to call me Posh & Becks!

Thursday, May 8, 2008

30 Days to Turning 30...27 to go



What's new in the life of a nearly 30 year old? I went to a Personal Finance lunch sponsored by our work's women network. We all sat around...and yep I as the youngest by a few years and the biggest topic in the room was retirement planning. What's enough? How do I invest?


I am quite finance savvy (or at least think I am) and also understand the world or mortality...or should I say the longevity of life from my life as an actuary (another time...another place).



The consultant shared pictures about the "old retirement" and "new retirement" model. The picture here is not the same...but good enough. Retirement is no longer stopping work at 65. Else you can never really save enough to live the same for the next 30 years. Yep, I'm expected to live in "retirement" for the same # years I've existed so far! Another "30 year phenomenon"....So I gotta think differently what retirement is and how it happens.

An ideal retirement....

  • I'll live on a sunny island (like Hawaii!) with Dr N (Mr Bearded Lady)
  • Own and run a business remotely when ever I want to work...and not have to work
  • And can afford to spend money as I want

All at Age 30...so only 27 days to go!