I offered to work for complimentary. The hiring manager admired that and offered me a task. I worked 60 hours a week. I just earned money for 29 hours, so they might prevent paying me medical advantages. At the time, I was making the handsome sum of $4 an hour.
On Saturday and Sunday, I worked 12-hour shifts as a cook in a dining establishment in Queens, New York. In the meantime, I got certified to end up being a broker. Gradually however surely, I increased through the ranks. Within 2 years, I was the youngest vice president in Shearson Lehman history. After my 15-year profession on Wall Street, I started and ran my own worldwide hedge fund for a decade.
I have not forgotten what it feels like to not have enough money for groceries, let alone the bills. I remember going days without eating so I could make the lease and electric costs. I remember what it was like growing up with nothing, while everyone else had the most recent clothes, devices, and toys.
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When I seem like taking my foot off the accelerator, I advise myself that there are countless driven competitors out there, starving for the success I have actually been fortunate to protect. The world doesn't stand still, and I realize I can't either. I enjoy my work, but even if I didn't, I have actually trained myself to work as if the Devil is on my heels.
However then, he "got greedy" (in his own words) and hung on for too long. Within a three-week span, he lost all he had made and everything else he owned. He was ultimately forced to file personal insolvency. Two years after losing whatever, Teeka rebuilt his wealth in the markets and went on to introduce an effective hedge fund.