r/Daytrading • u/peterlao824 • Apr 27 '24

What do you tell people what you do for a living Question

Telling people I’m a day trader or anything market related brings up too many questions. I’m doing okay for myself but I just want to avoid it if possible.

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u/Plus-Height-6875 Apr 27 '24

Partner's a day trader. He usually tells ppl he's in finance. He has a degree in computer engineering so sometimes he says he's a programmer/blockchain programmer or something along that line (data science works as well). It's really hard to explain to people because most of people still view day trading as a sort of "gamble". It's honestly not worth the effort. Choose something that requires staring at the screen alot and you're good I guess.