Polish multinational: how to survive - Part 2

At work, I started reading during breaks and when e-book systems crashed. Always with the anxiety of being "brought back". After changing the shifts in the multinational, I had to leave the real estate agency.

Among the books I have read Rich father and poor father, by Robert Kiyosaki. A book that is perhaps sometimes more interested in saying beautiful things than in saying real things. But that gives a certain charge and shows the world from another perspective.

“Why try to climb the ladder when you can own it?” I read. It was thus that between one e-mail and another I started playing on the stock market. To use the salary I was saving to buy shares - or buy parts of the company, hoping one day to stop working there. I did my work, then on my breakfast break I checked my bag.

The goal was obviously to stop working, to create an income. I didn't feel like spending a salary at the bar that I earned with hours of lost life.

At this point it is necessary to limit expectations: no, I have not become rich as in the classic biographical stories, indeed, I am still recovering some initial losses.

“Don't work for money, work for experience” I read in Kiyosaki's book. I didn't make money immediately with the stock market, but I learned not to panic: if you sell when everything collapses you will always make a loss. In short, I learned to smile while I am sinking, looking up for a possible ascent, and to take advantage of the discounts to buy, and the increases to sell.

It was thus that one day, in an exquisite apocalyptic atmosphere, a manager announced in a meeting with all 250 employees that the company was closing to reopen the project in Lisbon.

Those who had become institutionalized were lost. I obviously saw it as a downside and I took the opportunity to negotiate a supervisor position in Lisbon. I obviously hope I have a little more heart than my predecessors.

Even in Portugal, in the warmth, I continue to invest in the Polish stock exchange and to write my blog about Poland. I actually merged the two and started writing articles on the Polish stock exchange: http://lezionidipolacco.blogspot.pt/2016/03/la-borsa-polacca-gpw-e-new-connect.html. In the end you write what you know, and it is useless to be jealous of your knowledge. The more you exchange them with others, the more you enrich each other. Through these articles I was able to meet an experienced investor. He has already experienced the things I thought I was doing and he did not hesitate to explain the results to me. In short, a godsend that saved me money and years of trying.

In all this the only thing I regret a little is that I have faced too many numbers: productivity in the company, values ​​as a percentage of the work done, stock market values, salary, interest rate, etc. up to emotional emptying, because numbers take away emotions in the long run. As the Little Prince, adults only understand what they can count. It is true that figures are important and that they can teach you a lot, but we were not born for them, they are used by us to measure the world, even if they often become our obsession. This is why they should be taken in small doses.