The questions from USA Network’s Burn Notice are pretty challenging to me especially when I’m making a small living investing stocks and trading options first and blogging second. What would I do if I’m stranded in an unknown city with no money or resources? I think stranded in an unknown city is always better that left-alone in a remote island by your own-self.

First of all, we’re in the information age and if you’re suddenly appeared in a strange city, you can always get help from your friends through internet. Yeah, you don’t have a single penny but if you just simply walk into an internet-café and ask for a favor to use their internet-link computer for 5 minutes (beg or nag them), you can do quite a number of things such as getting help via instant messaging or email.

Depending on which city you’re stranded, you might be able to find some kind-hearted people who’re willing to give you some bucks for a meal or two. You can sleep at the park, YMCA or get helps from social centers. So it’s not the end of the world if you indeed found yourself stranded in another city. But that’s just the immediate solution and not a long-term one. To continue surviving, I might leverage on my knowledge in making some decent money investing stocks or trading option. Yes, I know I don’t have money but I can transform my knowledge into some money.

As a starter I might approach the owner of the internet café to recruit me as an administrator (how hard can it be to trouble-shoot some of those computers and the simple in-house network system?), this will at least provides me the daily meals and maybe free internet access and place to sleep. With the cyber-connection I can do some research analysis on stocks during my free-time to further make some bucks. Eventually I might be able to make enough to afford my own shelter, put foods on the table and the valuable internet access plus the computer to continue blogging and trading. If you can survive in above scenario, chances are you are already in your way to become a good trader or investor making good money in your comfort zone.

But this is just me, what if you’re a spy working for the government and somehow you’re fired for no apparent reason? How would you survive? Starting June 28th Michael Weston, a CIA Operative on USA Network’s new TV series, Burn Notice, will show us how he deals with a similar situation.

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June 19th, 2007 by financetwitter

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