Time to Invest
Posted by Robbie in LifeRecently I was looking at my bank account online and it dawned on me. “I really should start investing my money.” The interest on my ING account is 2% lower than at it’s peak, I just got a healthy tax return due to being a young homeowner, and I recently got a salary bump.
The idea was born out of procrastination… when I hit a wall at work creatively, I like to research things to better myself. So I started looking around at the best ways to get involved in the stock market. It’s something my parents were always really good at. I remember them saying recently “we’ll get a new house if GE goes past 70 a share,” and my dad would say stuff like that all the time when I grew up, especially during the financial boom of the Clinton years.
As an engineer he earned a decent upper middle-class salary, but really it was their investing and my mom’s penny pinching skills that enabled them to spoil their kids and provide a good life for us.
I’ve been good with my money, too. I always have a large amount of padding in my checking, nearly twice amount in savings and already own my own 1-bedroom in Queens. But I’ve been slow to get involved in mutual funds and stocks. I hit a point two years ago where I was so good with my money and career choices that I came out, flipped my life upside down and decided to live my life to the fullest and not let money get in the way.
read comments (0)This morning I heard the beep of my gmail notifier and saw a message from one of my gaysian friends. It said, “Hi everyone, after 3 years T2 and I have decided to…”
That’s all I could see in the pop up preview, and I instantly sank in my anticipation of what the rest of the sentence would say. In my two years of being out, I’ve only had one pair of close friends that were a couple. In fact, in my 4 years of being in New York, they are probably the only couple I know as close friends at all, straight or gay.
I remember the first several pairs of gay couples I would meet that had been together for more than 5 years. I’d be in awe and inspired… until I would find out down the road that they had a typical gay “open relationship.” T&T are not like this, along with my ex-coworker Jason and his boyfriend. They represent the younger gay couples who still hold onto the ideal that they can have a normal monogamous relationship.