Investment habits on EMS professinals

Which of the following best describes your personal investment philosphy

  • I invest only in my company 401k.

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • I participate in my company 401k and in seperate outside investments.

    Votes: 10 45.5%

  • I do not participate in my company 401k and invest only in outside investments.

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • I do not currently invest and have no plans to do so in the near future.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I do not currently invest but plan to do so in the near future.

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • Investments are for sissies. Real EMS professionals live hard and die young!

    Votes: 3 13.6%
  • Total voters
    22
  • Poll closed .
Linuss said:
With the way it's been since August, it will probably lose 3-5% this week since last week was all gains.


I lost 18% in the first week of August....
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My gut tells me it'll even out in the long term, but it makes me so nervous that I'm really reluctant to day trade again. :/
 
Other category: "defined benefit retirements" (civil servants)

Receiving a monthly check from our County employee association's investment fund, plus after three years' employment I got on board the pre-tax investment offered through the County as well. When I retired we rolled the latter over to a mutual funds setup through a large local CREDIT UNION.
In a little under two years I start getting military retirement (another fixed benefit deal, if they ever tell me what they will be paying me!) plus TRICARE (never ever forget the benefits).

When I was a firefighter, USAF browbeat us into buying savings bonds, and it was a good thing they did.
 
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