November 9, 2007

Becoming an old hand at this retirement investing gig

Seeing that my account has lost $431 in the last two weeks, my first thought was “Well, that means now’s a good time for the contributions to go into my account. Better prices now. It’ll go up later!” It’s great that I’m not panicking, especially since I see the fluctuations every day but I sure hope I know when it is time to panic.

I’d sorted through Coworker C’s set of work, and set it aside. Asked for Coworker A’s, and set that aside. Ten minutes later, I looked down and thought, why the heck are these out of order? Oh, they’re from Coworker A. Wait, when did these get here? How did they get here?

Me: “A, did you just sneak over here, put this on my desk and not tell me!? How did you…. how did I not notice??”

A: “No, I handed them to you. You’re crazy.”

Me: “Oh. Ok. Huh.”