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$10K Bets on My Series 7 (Young, Brilliant, and Wrong: Part 1)

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Coming Up Together with Ash

this is actually a photo of my cs project group at high school nerd camp. close enough Ash (name changed because he can’t give permission) and I first met at work when I was 21 and he was 26. He scared me because he looked like a cool, rich, white kid and it was deep in my brain that cool, rich, white kids were mean to dorky Asian kids like me. I’d befriended some rich, white kids in the past, but they’d clearly been nerds, and therefore safe. At the office, I was the only female trader, and the youngest woman. My first task was to pass the Series 7 exam, which I scheduled for the first…

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