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My princess makes me proud

VintageFreakVintageFreak
in Off-Topic
If all goes to plan...
1) My elder will start @ the U. of TX @ Austin this fall
2) Allegedly a top 6 school (US News Ranking) - McCombs School of Business - for an undergraduate degree.
3) Keeping my dream alive of turning at least child into a mutual fund manager
4) Last but not the least not making me regret I'm not that smart an investor by not requiring me to shell out a gazillion dollars.

I dunno if the horns are long, but my chest is sure swelling with pride.

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  • beebee
    Congrats...Hell of a town to get an aged steak and hopefully a college degree.

    Isn't Austin, TX where Yacktman Funds are located...Internship?
  • VintageFreakVintageFreak
    edited March 2017
    bee said:

    Congrats...Hell of a town to get an aged steak and hopefully a college degree.

    Isn't Austin, TX where Yacktman Funds are located...Internship?

    Hah! I didn't know that. Didn't even think any mutual fund would operate out of Austin. Good find.

    I think I'm probably the only person who wants their child to grow up and become a Mutual Fund manager:-). My parents wanted me to become an engineer, lawyer, doctor, architect, etc. Seriously though no one can stop one from becoming an (incompetent) mutual fund manager, while I think it is possible to do that in the other more erstwhile occupations.
  • CrashCrash
    edited March 2017
    I really gotta do Austin. Great music scene. Listening right now to Jackson Browne play Austin City Limits, some time ago. Loved their theme music, which Jerry Jeff Walker made famous, though I think Gary Nunn wrote the thing. "London Homesick Blues."
  • CrashCrash
    edited March 2017
    Screw you, we're from Texas. ;)
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    Hey, Molly Ivans was outta Austin, so it's OK in my book!
  • BenWPBenWP
    My useless advice to @VintageFreak is don't saddle any kid with a career aspiration that is really your own. "My son, the doctah," is all about Mom, not the kid.
  • beebee
    edited March 2017
    Austin, TX...home to many great songwriters, here's another one...Nanci Griffith.

    Thanks @Crash. I caught JJW with Emmylou Harris in the Berkshires in the 80's (Music Mountain).

    Texas songwriters=musical poets.



  • CrashCrash
    edited March 2017
    N. Griffith is the best. First saw her in the '80s on PBS while summering in the Alaskan Bush. Here's a buncha Hoser-types from up North, plus one guy from Turkey Scratch, Arkansas: "Ain't No More Cane On The Brazos."
  • TedTed
    @MFO Members: Spent many a wonderful day in Austin in the mid seventies drinking Shiner Beer, that's before the world and Dell Computer discovered it.
    Regards,
    Ted

    P.S. In addition to Yackman funds, Austin is also the home of Dimensional Fund Advisors
  • katman
    Hook-em Horns
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