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Author Topic: You Might as Well Face It: You're Addicted to Success  (Read 1056 times)  Share 

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brendan

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You Might as Well Face It: You're Addicted to Success
« on: February 13, 2009, 08:10:00 pm »
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123423234983566171.html

"It's like having your entire investment in one stock, and that stock is your job," says Robert Leahy, director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York. "You're going to be extremely anxious about losing that job, and depressed if you do."

I was thinking about that the other day, is there anyway to hedge this risk?

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Re: You Might as Well Face It: You're Addicted to Success
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2009, 09:58:46 pm »
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Hmm....income insurance? I think someone offers it somewhere...haha
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Re: You Might as Well Face It: You're Addicted to Success
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2009, 10:19:41 pm »
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I think those policies only pay out when the trigger is sickness or injury.

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