Options

Hmm...seems too similar a title to my last post. But this is about trading options. I've been looking at these for a while and finally decided on selling covered call options on a relatively inexpensive stock so I can get my feet wet. I'm a day ahead here so I'll check tomorrow if the trade was executed. (Though, really, that date will be the same...so wanted to mark on my blog the day I first sold a covered call.)

Decisions

Reasons to stay in Korea

-          - samgyetang

-          - outdoorexercise machines

-          - no rent/mortgage

-          - health insurance

-          - don’t need a car

-          - UNIQLO (I know that sounds funny, but everything there fits and is cheap)

-          - a job that pays well, is fairly easy (or getting easier), and I enjoy

-          - can save a good amount of money each month

-          - I can afford a fairly comfortable life

Reasons to go back to the US

-          - family

-          - friends

-          - isolated here

The second list is shorter, but it certainly weighs on me. But there are certain realities that make (at least certain items on) the first list weigh in quite a bit, too. I simply don’t see any prospects for me back in the US. Staying in Korea affords me the possibility of retiring in about 10 years. To retire at 46 sounds like a decent prospect, but 10 years is still 10 years. I feel the same as I did in earlier seasons where planning for the future was easy, but what about the present?