I haven’t been on this forum for a while. I decided to make a small update in my journal.
Good news:
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I broke 100k threshold at IB - no more $10 fee!
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I’ve got a new job that I enjoy. I started working in March at yet another fintech that is doing some fancy app for one of the big banks. In any matter, I work with super nice, similarly minded and supportive DevOps team and I introduced a couple of new technologies that I planned to learn for a long time (e.g. using Python scripts to test infrastructure state). I started learning more Python and I’m happy with it.
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I’ve limited screen consumption and social media addiction by deleting Facebook account and limiting every distracting website using app called Freedom (I’ve started with Cold Turkey but it didn’t have good phone app).
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I’ve discovered Cal Newport books (“Deep work” and “Digital Minimalism”) thanks to a Mad Fientist interview.
Bad news:
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I’m still at around +165k net worth. Much lower than I expected.
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I totally f*cked everything else up. I destroyed every habit that I was working on - from saving 50% of my income, regularly investing (I’ve missed December-January correction), not eating sugar and processed foods, not eating outside, writing down expenses, reading books and learning finance to reading this forum. Not everything is gone, but everything is much worse than last summer.
I don’t know exactly why and how this happened - I had couple of exhausting and costly experiences (move to a new apartment, my son started attending kindergarten, I started commuting to work more often rather than doing home office) and couple of crises (personally I felt crappy autumn-winter months, my marriage is not in the best shape, and my son was sick 10000 times since he went to the kindergarten in November). So, the situation is complex and hard to explain, but I need to start from scratch rebuilding my attitude and habits. Maybe reading the forum more frequently will motivate me again.