This is really ol\de but...One of the richest guys from my Vietnam unit is our old flight records clerk. Little Jewish kid with no college. Joined some tiny brokerage as an order taker over the phones. People would call in and he'd buy or sell for them. Retired as the head of the margin desk for an Ameritrade office in NYC. He began throwing a few hundred dollars at whatever stock seemed to be the most active of the day, rarely sold anything. Today he's worth somewhere north of $20mm and his monthly statement, if it was printed, would look like a small city phone book. Regular hours, no stress, got benefits, not a bad gig. The one thing I learned when I retired (1990) was that nobody cares that you were in the military, they only want you to produce. And you'll probably be the oldest guy in the office who's either not sitting in a corner office or the boss. I went to work for Bank of America and they have a ton of very young females in charge of a lot of things. And most of them are very good at their jobs, but a few are downright incompetent and will never get fired for different reasons, it's not easy working with them sometimes.
