I am an ordinary girl, a typical Gen Y born in the 90s.
To escape my current life, I resort to investing in the share market. My first contact with the share market was long ago when I was 7 years old - my mum has been "investing" in the share market since then. She was keeping eyes on the share market using teletext and I wanted to watch my cartoon on the TV. So I hated the numbers shown on the TV screen and I didnt understand what she meant by "why keep dropping... go up up up... help me queue at..." blar blar blar. So much for my very first acquaintance with the share market. The red and green numbers were uninteresting and dull, the "ups and downs" were meaningless and the changing of numbers were annoying!!
It was until last year after I graduated and started working as a clerk in a newly opened property agency near my house. With hardly any walk-in customer, my job was pretty easy and I had so much time to kill. I started reading Robert Kiyosaki and I started to think of financial freedom, to imagine how it feels like not having to worry about money and retiring at the age of 40 or even 30... It was a wake up call that I can never be rich by working (especially for the government). Even my dad who teaches quite a number of students tuition is not rich and he worries a lot about money and making ends meet. I don't want to work until 60 and I definitely dont want to live my days worrying about bills and loans.
Light seems to shine on the share market. I kind of like the idea of having money to work for me instead of me working for money. With my little saving, I can't invest on property so share market is just nice as share can be bought as little as a few hundred bucks.
So, hello Bursa Malaysia! Be nice to me, the Bursa newbie!
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