Winemaker
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
I started investing back in the early 1970's as I had a good job and the company had a "Stock savings plan". I remember going to a broker, signing on for an account, and placing a trade for a stock like GM and paying a fee of (I'm guessing) $75/trade of 100 shares. There were no computer's to trade with. And if you wanted to know the price of a stock you looked it up in the newspaper (yesterday's price). For today's price, you called the broker.
The funniest thing to me nowadays is the thought process of investing today. using your example, aja, when you bought that GM , you held it for a while. When you received your quarterly statement, that's when you found out whether you were up or down, unless you looked in your Sunday newspaper. When you bought a bond, you were happy clipping coupons and you were on top of the world. Now with online prices available continuously, some folks trade all day long for a few cents here and there, or are wringing their hands over a $10 loss on a bond in a day. Back then, you didn't know, so you didn't wail and gnash your teeth.