No mistakes? Hah!! I’m making a mistake even as we speak. I’m holding right now even though I know I could bank some nice coin (and keep it) by selling my position. I could have made a TON of money had I gone into selling apartments and commercial properties back in the late 1990s but I chose to stick with appraising instead. I’ve lost clients over the last 10 years because I wouldn’t sign off on their increasingly outrageous deals, I’ve pissed off a lot of my peers for not looking the other way while they availed themselves of all that low-lying fruit, and in general have worked against my financial interests the whole while.
A few years back I gave in to the material-girl BS and bought an MBZ (an AMG, no less) to commemorate my mid-life crisis. That certainly wasn’t my brightest move.
I’m on my second marriage, too; so there’s at least one person (my ex) who knows for a fact that I’m a complete loser.
