However I offered to work for free. The hiring manager appreciated that and provided me a task. I worked 60 hours a week. I only got paid for 29 hours, so they could avoid paying me medical benefits. At the time, I was making the princely amount of $4 an hour.
On Saturday and Sunday, I worked 12-hour shifts as a cook in a dining establishment in Queens, New York City. In the meantime, I got licensed to become a broker. Slowly but certainly, I increased through the ranks. Within 2 years, I was the youngest vice president in Shearson Lehman history. After my 15-year career on Wall Street, I began and ran my own worldwide hedge fund for a years.
I have not forgotten what it feels like to not have sufficient cash for groceries, let alone the bills. I keep in mind going days without eating so I might make the lease and electrical bill. I remember what it was like growing up with nothing, while everybody else had the most recent clothing, devices, and toys.
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When I feel like taking my foot off the accelerator, I advise myself that there are countless driven rivals out there, hungry for the success I have actually been fortunate to secure. The world does not stand still, and I recognize I can't either. I love my work, but even if I didn't, I have trained myself to work as if the Devil is on my heels.
However then, he "got greedy" (in his own words) and held on for too long. Within a three-week span, he lost all he had made and everything else he owned. He was eventually forced to file personal insolvency. Two years after losing whatever, Teeka rebuilt his wealth in the markets and went on to introduce a successful hedge fund.