would you be willing to put a stock recommendation on your voice mail, on your answering machine and updataery week? hi, this is jim cramer. i'm not here right now but i like montu 32 for the week. yeah, i actually did that, every single week. i had that level of conviction about my pick of the week, which was incredibly important to posses. you have to have that. i was putting my money where my mouth was and managed to get augment the winnings with work i was able to get with freelance work from the "new york times" and some legal work from a professor. it wasn't long after that that marty parrish, a publisher from new york magazine, a professor at harvard tried to get ahold of me. tried to get me to write a piece. they were all successful trades of the week and he told me to meet me at a coffee house nearby. when i did, he wanted to give me $500,000 to manage. he said he had confidence in me. shortly after, he gave me a check for $500,000. which by the way was real money back then. i ran down to fidelity and set up to work trading. almost immediately i lost a ton of it. my mistake? a man