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Hi y'all.
I think it might have been around a decade since I was on iTulip.
When I started posting in the years leading up to the Great Recession, I was still in the Marine Corps Reserve. Then I started a family in 2008 and dropped to the IRR; almost got deployed from the couch to Iraq with the tail end of the "surge" but got sent home from Mobilization Command because they reduced the size of the deployment at the last minute. I drifted away from iTulip when I felt calls like peak cheap oil and the course of the reflation following the market bottom weren't helping me invest appropriately. Fast forward several years and my kids got old enough I could take on hobbies again, so I started volunteering as a reserve sheriff's deputy. Around the same time, I published a book in my field of expertise (InGaAs Avalanche Photodiodes for Range-Finding and Lidar), built the proverbial 'dream home', and the small business I had worked at my entire career was sold to a much larger company that wanted to sell components for automotive lidar. The automotive lidar market didn't grow as quickly as the big company anticipated, and now my job is in danger, but that's another story.
Anyway, just thought I'd check in. My spidey senses are tingling with respect to a financial crisis, but I haven't had my head in the game in recent years, the way it was leading into 2007/2008. So I don't have anything very well informed to say. But I wanted to say 'hi'!
I think it might have been around a decade since I was on iTulip.
When I started posting in the years leading up to the Great Recession, I was still in the Marine Corps Reserve. Then I started a family in 2008 and dropped to the IRR; almost got deployed from the couch to Iraq with the tail end of the "surge" but got sent home from Mobilization Command because they reduced the size of the deployment at the last minute. I drifted away from iTulip when I felt calls like peak cheap oil and the course of the reflation following the market bottom weren't helping me invest appropriately. Fast forward several years and my kids got old enough I could take on hobbies again, so I started volunteering as a reserve sheriff's deputy. Around the same time, I published a book in my field of expertise (InGaAs Avalanche Photodiodes for Range-Finding and Lidar), built the proverbial 'dream home', and the small business I had worked at my entire career was sold to a much larger company that wanted to sell components for automotive lidar. The automotive lidar market didn't grow as quickly as the big company anticipated, and now my job is in danger, but that's another story.
Anyway, just thought I'd check in. My spidey senses are tingling with respect to a financial crisis, but I haven't had my head in the game in recent years, the way it was leading into 2007/2008. So I don't have anything very well informed to say. But I wanted to say 'hi'!
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