I’ve always had the entrepreneurial spirit.  I started delivering newspapers when I was 8 years old.  The paper’s “official” policy was that a delivery boy had to be 12 or older.  I suppose I convinced them that I was a *mature* 8 year old.  When I was in high school, I had a job in a video game retail store, and I made extra cash by buying used games that the store was selling below their fair market value and reselling them on ebay.  When I was in college, I had an internship at The Motley Fool, but I teamed up with another Visual Basic developer to market a side project that was intended to compete with Microsoft’s Visual Source Safe product. 

 My complete job history:

Slaughterhouse “helper” (family business…a topic for another post!)

Paper boy

Dishwasher/Line cook at a steak house

Market Research associate

Software salesman

Visual Basic application developer

SQL Database Developer

IT Project Manager

All the while, I’ve been a trader too.  There are no limits to what you or anyone else can become, but the path from start to finish isn’t always clear.  I once heard someone say “Elvis was always Elvis…”, and it’s true,  but even the King worked in the high school library.  Enjoy the journey, and remember that you have the power to choose the destination.