I'm definitely behind on some of my 2025 goals currently. My wife losing her job definitely changed my plans to some degree and caused more stress than I would have liked. She got a job, and instead of relaxing, we decided owning a home sucks, so now I'm balls deep in getting my house to market. Hopefully I'll have it for sale in a few weeks.
I definitely fell behind some of my goals, and I haven't been able to stack as much as I had hoped, but I should be more than caught up on that after the house sells.
The clock is really starting to tick on getting on Linux before October, hopefully I'll be able to grab an extra SSDHD in the next couple weeks to get that project going.
Hopefully everyone's first half of the year went well, and continues to stay that way. Best of luck on the rest of 2025 stackers!
Not at all. My business has garnered much less attention and interest from both customers and investors than I had anticipated. Unexpected technical and security issues popped up. I had to scrap my plans to roadtrip New Zealand during the first half of the year. Got 3 fiat jobs in the meantime to pay my bills; first didn't offer enough hours, got fired from the second (without me even realizing my performance wasn't adequate), and laid off from the third (mostly due to being sick throughout the month of May).
This was enough to make my innate anxiety and depression raise their ugly heads, so even when I had the chance to work on my business & my writing, I wasn't nearly as productive as I could have been.
Anyway. I'm still fucking grateful for all of it, because it is on the edge of our abilities and comfort zone where we can innovate, expand and grow the most.
For now I'm back at my parents' place for the summer (as planned) and can focus the next 1-3 months building my stuff. The original plan was to head over to South and Central America in the fall. But that depends on whether or not I can actually start making an income with my own stuff. If not, I might have to stay in Estonia and start looking for a fiat job, once again.
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Keep grinding, effort pays off.
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No shit...
Yes actually.
My house is undergoing renovations- wife seems pleased that her ideas are coming to fruition.
Managed to change my job - won’t have any problems enrolling my son in the primary school I work at
It’s sad that I’m literally penniless, but I guess money can always be earned xP
Money comes and goes. I wish you success.
Wow, yea, you've been up against some odd and unanticipated challenges.
Samesies: so answer to question is absolutely not.
Yea? How's the year treating you so far?
Ups and downs. Terrible downs, unexpected, exciting ups. New challenges and situations, different mindset and dreams
I hope you've gotten past all of those downs bud. Good people deserve good things.
Kind words, thaaank you.
Some aspects of them; others will probably haunt me for a while longer. Others still, I might carry with me forever
Shit, sounds like you've had some tough times man. I hate that for you.
Without being too specific I would say in most ways yes but in others no. Overall it was a pretty good first half of the year. Much better than last year when we were struggling with my wife's health leading to her major surgery last June.
I hope she's ok now! Most things become unimportant when you're facing a health crisis
Overall she is much better than this time last year when she was recovering from major surgery but she still has some issues we need to keep an eye on. She is tough but lingering health issues wear on you both physically and mentally so I hope we are on the upswing.
Me too, honestly. I've watched family members go through similar things. Being healthy is really the only thing that truly matters, the rest is just noise.
It didn't go as expected at all but it is different for the better I guess. My big point now is that I have to focus because my life feels fragmented, also because too much travel - I'm sitting at over 50 flights already so this has to calm down a bit.
My expectation was that this was going to be a lean year because I didn't feel like doing gigs - because last year's gigs sucked. However I got lots of great requests and I've been very busy with nice challenging projects, that still don't pay well, so I guess lean is still coming true, but not for the same reason. I also wasn't planning to spend time on SN but I did do that, and I didn't plan to work on AI stuff but I do (whilst remaining a skeptic.)
In terms of challenges, this year is amazing.
Are you a freelance programmer?
Not really. My gig work is 95% coaching and consultancy, I only rarely get a coding gig and I'm not expecting any tbh. My code work is all voluntary FOSS stuff.
It is wild because professionally I'm behind compared to where I thought I would be but personally I think I'm way ahead which is awesome so its a mixed bag lol
I feel like working in Politics I should have known that my professional goals were going to take longer but I was optimistic with having the trifecta
Not at all, I expected to continue to survive, instead I'm starting to live. I never really had the job of my dreams, and honestly thought I would never have it, yet here I am. Working with great people, doing what I dreamt of doing when I was a kid.
I did expect to get better with my mental health, though, but there's something I'm surely missing because I'm still disassociated for the most part of the day. I know it'll get better, I just don't want to lose my progress over something I'm overlooking.
my immiadiate reaction was shock becuase how the fuck is is July already?
How was your wife's job search? is the job market as rough as a I keep reading?
I don't have a ton of goals, just to get set up running a node , which I for sure will manage before the end of the year.
My other goal was to get a bitaxe and learn about mining more, which I did.
My wife literally gets her first paycheck this week, thanks for asking. It's definitely a breath of relief.
Getting a node up and running shouldn't be too bad for you, sounds like your right on track for 2025.
Got halfway to my goal of abs
Not at all as I expected. Hopefully a pivot will happen soon.
Really? What are you hoping for?
I’m hoping to be able to focus on bitcoin projects full time, or at least enough to not need a separate full time job.
It feels close sometimes and that’s always exhilarating.
Kudos to you. Other than Stacker Sports Pod, are you working on any other exciting projects?
I’ve been talking to the Predyx team about possibly joining them. That’s the one I’m most excited about, but it’s not trivial to find an arrangement that works for everyone.
Ha. Good luck to you trying to solve my unabashed fandom to get proper market dynamics. Remember the old saying "grayruby can stay irrational longer than you can stay employable".
We just need to find an even bigger dummy, who will be irrational longer than your wife lets you fritter away your savings.
I told my wife I want to invest in Predyx if they do some kind of community round. She was cool with it. I was showing her how the site works. She said "hold on, you guys are trading players like stocks". I said "not just players, teams too" haha.
She is bugging me about getting a house in the US again so I need to frame my degeneracy as an investment. Haha
You rang?
I love this
Things are still in the horizon - apologies for all the delay. We've been so cramped up with the dev stuff. We just hired a new developer this week.
The biggest deployment/upgrade in the last 6 months will be dropped next week or so.
Derek will be getting in touch next week or so for something other than the original plan. That's the need of the hour and I believe you can handle it.
It's no problem. Like any good bitcoiner, my time preference is stupidly low.
I was going to write something up this weekend for you guys that outlines some of what I have in mind in terms of contributions. You and I have discussed most of it, but it might help Derek be on the same page with us.
That's cool! But yeah, I imagine it's tough to come to an arrangement
If you do join, I'm looking forward to seeing the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism on Predyx
That’s exactly the sort of work I’m hoping to apply. It’s not my area of expertise but I did love covering these mechanisms in my theory and experimental courses.
Can I bet on whether or not you'll get on that team?!
I don’t want to see them all loading up on No
You could just give @grayruby inside info and you two would sweep the whole thing anyhow. I'm not saying you're corrupt, but....
@mega_dreamer
Don't bet - he'll be a part of us. Its just matter of when.
Dude, that sounds like the dream. I have my fingers crossed for you. You're a smart guy, I'm sure you'll get there sooner or later.
I see a path, but my wife isn’t sold on it yet and it would be very risky. So, I’m trying to figure out how to phase into it and out of my current job.
For some reason my wife won't let me put 100% of the profits from our upcoming home sale into bitcoin either....
Women ☕️...
What made you decide to sell? will you rent or buy another house?
Home ownership really sucks. I hate the maintenance and the lawn work etc. Neither one of us particularly enjoy owning, so we're going to go back to renting.
The final nail in the coffin was when I showed my wife what the average 20 year return would look like if we put 100% of the profits in the s&p 500. That alone would beat the housing market without even considering the amount of maintenance we would be paying annually.
My wife is orange pilled to some degree, but she's not as all in as I am. We sat down and went over the expected returns over 20 years from S&P and figured out a minimum "safety net" for her risk tolerance, and the rest will go into bitcoin.
It's absolutely gone wrong
Mostly so. Some things went unexpectedly positively, some things went unexpectedly negatively, but nothing too major in either direction. Big changes next year as one of my kids is going into middle school and one into high school.
That is a pretty big change. Hope it goes well for them.
Best of luck with the house sale (owning an apartment also sucks if neighbors are less educated than you) and try to take things easily. For me it did went as expected. I am not also a bit behind with my plans but I am getting there. We all are getting there! Keep your spirits up and keep stacking at whatever pace you can!
Not Really, i quit my job got into a relationship, got more into Bitcoin, started stacking a bit and now i'm building my own product as a co-founder (and it involves BTC too ^^) I'm planning to live the country too (first time) I spent 5 years idle in the same job, no change and now my life changed drastically
everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face
2025 is a bad year so far.
It went quite well. I let go of my previous apprentice in the beginning of the year, but was able to find a new one, a better one within a month. New guy had been very helpful and I'm going to be giving him a raise soon. Work had been quite busy the first half of the year, making me unable to go on a long road trip during Spring Break, but a short 3 days 2 night trip to Vancouver Island was nice too.
The bitcoin price went up a bit faster than I like, as I want to stack more sats. But I'm not complaining, because I understand it's a blessing to still be able to purchase sats with fiat.
Not exactly, but I tried.
Not as planned, but it's going great so far. I still have my job, I'm opening my own company, I finally had my surgery done and I'm recovering well. Let's hope for the next six months to go as smooth as possible
Not everything was good but it could be managebul over the time.
It's always darkest before dawn.
The moment you decided to do something for the better you'll be challenged to see how bad do you want the change.
In my humble opinion :)
Everything opposite to #1020757 Haha.. Everything as I expected. Hopefully it remains the same. What's important that I'm now exclusively focusing on Bitcoin. No worries about any job or kinda stuff. Just enjoying my life. Sounds too good to be true, right? Here's one minus - My plans for travelling on a motorbike wearing a Bitcoin gear has been suspended by my wife!!
Didn't really have any expectations. I'm still alive and healthy, so can't complain too much! Bitcoin is also up, so that's nice!
I could say yes, but it could be better, let's hope this second half goes even better.
Partially.
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