Singapore stocks: Once bitten, twice shy

[Ben]

I personally know of people who are in high paying jobs but entails high stress and high commitment to their job, resulting in little time and opportunity to spend their money. Not to mention the tolls the job has on their health. For these people, it is nearly impossible to get the same return from investment to be on par with their full time job. And very often, their investment is usually negative return because of the lack of commitment and time spend on it.

But the question is, do they really need so much money?

So perhaps, a more achievable and realistic financial gauge is whether one can get enough return from investment to sustain one basic needs in life. If yes, it’s probable a viable consideration to go full time investment and ditch the high stress high commitment job.

Once the basic needs are met, then we should spend more time and effort on our biggest and most important investment, ie, our health, both physical and mental health