First post - But not the last

Monkeys - I like to jump straight to the point so here goes. I would post under the success story forum but the fact of matter is I am still figuring out what success truly is. Is success the position listed under your work email signature? Or is success the car that's parked outside your lavish house? Is success where you begun and where you are now or is success different for everyone? These are the questions I find myself asking everyday. See I've never been the smartest guy in the room, I am not one of those naturally smart students, in fact I have to spend hours and hours of studying to make good grades. Which brings me to my next point. I know how to make ends meet. When I was 15 I started using my resources, a year later I was making 4,000/month buying and selling cell phones online. It was simple I would find someone with certain circumstances and negotiate a bargain to only post that same cell phone back on the website a day later to sell to someone else in a different circumstance. Not naturally smart, but natural instincts to get by. That's what you have to do being raised in Houston with no support from your parents financially attending University of Houston and paying full tuition for four years (yes I am a senior). Being a finance junkie since high school, after my craigslist days I decided to use the same process but this time buy and sell stocks. I taught myself practically everything I know now about trading. Working retail freshman year I couldn't apply for most internships because either I wouldn't meet GPA requirements or I couldn't just take 2 months off to do an internship. Fast forward three years later I now have a 3.7 GPA, while having a brokerage firm, a PE Firm and currently interning for a big 6 O&G firm on my resume. Which all were co-op internships(meaning they weren't just a month or two long, instead they keep you until graduation so I would have a steady income). Thing about me is though I am never contempt with myself, maybe its all the people that have told me I am not smart enough, or maybe its all the people that told me I wouldn't make it. See I am still in the process of proving them wrong. The only way I can prove them wrong is by achieving what I mentioned above. Success. Graduating this December with 6 months of NG trading under my belt (no I am not a trader, I am in MO) I plan to find myself back on the trading floor. I heard they have a bunch of them in NY (sarcasm). See I wouldn't know because I haven't left Texas since I came here 15 years ago. That will change come August 1st since I just booked my ticket to the big apple. If anyone wants to take some time out of their day and tell me what success truly is I would love to meet up. I am coming up there to pretty much go building to building and drop off my resume (seriously).

Well I will stop rambling now and see what WSO is all about.

Thank you!