Depressive Hacks R&D

2022 has come to a close. Assets were down. Almost across the board. The economy was flying for the first half of the year. It then started a rapid slowdown. The Federal Reserve raised rates. Then, they did it again. This was repeated over and over again. I previously did a post about the year in review. I'll be honest, January has been a pretty difficult month. Things were busy in December, my budgeting suffered, and January has mostly just been an effort to catch up. In fact, I have put any and all new investing on hold to start 2023, which pains me to say, but is completely necessary to ensure no serious setbacks in my overall plans. The year, as a result, will be starting on a slow note, but that doesn't mean the whole year will have to be this way. I look forward to further work on so many awesome opportunities once I have things more normalized. So what's first? Well, for one thing, I got behind on my credit card debt. I hate admitting that. I've been so good abou...

 Alright, so I'll be the first to admit that I'm not very good at this sort of thing. I've also been in the midst of a difficult depressive episode (not to be confused with a Depressive episode, which would be a tv show about Depressive Hacks). So, in an effort to try to summarize & lift my spirits, I'm going to discuss 2022 in a very open manner and hopefully get some closure on the year. Nobody needs to be told that 2020 was a difficult year. 2021 was also a residual difficult year as the world figured out a way to wrap existence around the existence of Covid-19. I'd say that 2022 has really been the most "normal" year since 2019, which we should all be grateful for. I wouldn't say 2022 was particularly enthralling personally, but I am very grateful it felt more typical than the previous two years and that things have improved on the pandemic front. Now, what to talk about. So I started a new day job in 2021. 2022 I spent the whole year at this j...