u/BarakaAlvin

I attended an online seminar and the speaker opened up with something interesting

“I wish I understood that doing nothing with your money is still a decision — just a bad one.”

You might hold cash for years thinking you are being careful. Inflation eats it quietly. No dramatic loss, no crash, no bad stock pick. Just slow, invisible erosion while you feel safe.

At some point he said something like “The market is loud and scary. Inflation is silent and patient. One of them gets more attention than it deserves.”

I have kept on remembering this and as a young man I am trying to navigate my way in investing and it hasn’t been as simple as there is pressure to make the right decisions.

I need any advice on what’s your opinion on investing on how it should be done, cause I also see an issue with most young guys talking about investing it’s mostly just Fomo but nothing that’s really tangible.

if you’ve ever wanted to watch someone become the smartest person alive and completely lose control of it, this is it.
A failing writer with no money, no girlfriend, and no future. A chance encounter gets him access to NZT-48, an experimental pill that unlocks his full mental potential. Within days he’s fluent in new languages, finishing his book, making thousands on the stock market, and moving in circles way above his pay grade.
Then things start to go wrong.
Mood: Fast,slick,paranoid
Genre: Sci-fi,thriller

So this happened recently and my roommate tells me I am wrong but I thought I should get some outside opinions.
For context me and my coworker let’s call him (W) have been working together for the past two years.
We are a bit friendly but not that much and doesn’t extend outside of work.
So recently during lunch while we were with other workmates he mentioned of a senior position opening up in our department but none of us knew about it and no one seemed interested.
I was also silent but because I was keen to know more about it and later in the day I also prepared my application and while at it I also remembered my coworker being assured that no one else was going for the promotion but him so he was sure of it.
I do wonder if I would seem like a bad guy if I am the one who ends up getting the role cause we would still be working together?