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Sep. 10th, 2007 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
balmofgileadI'm trying to read Standard & Poor's Guide to Money and Investing. It is a short, small paperback with illustrations.
I STILL get bored every few pages, and it's not because I'm already familiar with the information (I'm totally, totally not--the things I have read so far were clearer and made more sense than what I'd learned in my high school economics class, which is the only time I've learned about the stock market &c.)
I'm trying to learn about investing because I just finished Rich Dad, Poor Dad, in which he...advises learning about investing. And making investments. I'm kind of conflicted about the whole modus operandi Robert Kiyosaki suggests in the book, though. I need things to have meaning. Delivering pizza seems to have more meaning than playing the stock market. You can use income from investments to do meaningful things, but that's more circuitous and indirect, which kind of detracts from the meaningfulness of it all.
I STILL get bored every few pages, and it's not because I'm already familiar with the information (I'm totally, totally not--the things I have read so far were clearer and made more sense than what I'd learned in my high school economics class, which is the only time I've learned about the stock market &c.)
I'm trying to learn about investing because I just finished Rich Dad, Poor Dad, in which he...advises learning about investing. And making investments. I'm kind of conflicted about the whole modus operandi Robert Kiyosaki suggests in the book, though. I need things to have meaning. Delivering pizza seems to have more meaning than playing the stock market. You can use income from investments to do meaningful things, but that's more circuitous and indirect, which kind of detracts from the meaningfulness of it all.
