All The Beaches In The World
Some of the stocks that I hold have increased their dividends. One of them actually increased it by 18 percent. 18 percent!
Effectively I got an 18 percent raise from those shares.
Here's what I like about being a shareholder....
I'm calling it my beach salary. I'll get paid to sit on the beach one day. At least, that's the initial plan, maybe I'll get bored of that after a few months, who knows. We'll see.
I mean, there are a LOT of beaches on this planet to sit on.
Hey, who knows, it might be where I meet the future love of my life. I bet lots of couples met on a beach. Or at a beach resort.
Anyways back to this 18 percent raise. This dividend thing is pretty sweet. First off... It's pretty much completely passive income. All I do is read article, review the books of the company, and then either buy, or sell shares.
Once you buy shares, they are yours. You can't have them taken away from you. You basically become part owner in the company. If anything, they work for you.
It's just, nuts really. It blows my mind. I can sit there and make money by simply holding shares. In a real work place... You do work, 8 hours a day... 5 days a week. You have a boss that makes requests from you... and you then work on those requests.
As a shareholder, you have no boss.
In a workplace, if you want a raise, you ask the boss for a raise. Though, in my case, I never get them. Oh well. Although, to be fair, that's life in a non-profit. Pay is low and raises are hard to come by. But it's kind of something that is understood by working for a non-profit. So, I'm fine with it.
This shareholding thing? I didn't even ask for a raise and I got an 18 percent raise! 18 percent!
Anyways, I'm actually pretty excited about the future. I log into my portfolio every single day. I research on the holdings. I buy and sell, rebalance, and monitor and measure my income and all that.
Anyways, I've decided that one of my goals in life is to just live a beach life. Just create a dividend paying portfolio that increases the dividends every year and then all I do is tend to it and make small changes here and there. And then... I just travel to different beach destinations.
Maybe I meet a girl, and she can join me on my quest to find the best beaches in the world... And maybe I don't.
Either way, that's my plan.
My goal in the next 5 years is to become a full time beach bum, investor. And then I'll just blog about the different beaches that I go to. I'll just start a beach bum blog. And then I'll just feature a new beach monthly on my blog. And that, my friends, is how I will spend the rest of my life.
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