It is very demotivating for me to come into work when in one day I made more money than almost 2 years salary.
You should re-read what you just typed, because there's probably hundreds of people reading your post who have had the exact same feeling with some altcoin before, then they tried to ride the profits higher and they vaporized taking them back to square one. The fact is, the second any type of life changing profits occur, the price always craters right after. What % bitcoin can rise in a short duration before said action occurs is up for debate though. Having any type of life changing profit occur and then not taking any profit off the table is the definition of insanity.
Profit in what? A currency that will likely go away in the next 10 years due to a debt bubble and more wars?
I stay at work mainly because it allows me to continue my high risk investment without worry of starving if it goes to zero. If I were to quit I would buy real estate or something that will sustain me for decades.
You've already reached the peak of risk in your high risk investment. Anyone can click the 2 year chart and see that. It's an obvious unsustainable bubble and anyone cashing out here will not be missing much. I imagine it will do something like a 50% retrace off it's base, which would take it to something like $2100, but the pumpers may or may not try to take it a few hundred higher first. This is literally a textbook pump and dump and it's easy to see from the non-aggregate market movements. Bitcoin has probably never once behaved as an aggregate market. Every single move is just some entity like Digital Currency Group trying to manipulate it in a certain direction to profit.