Hello! My name is delphian. My real name is a super uber secret which you shall never find out!
I really like dividend growth investing, though I don't know much about it yet. I'm about 36, married and have two kids, one of which thinks its a teenager. I have a normal salary for someone who never finished college, but have gotten our savings rate up to 26% of my net take home salary. I've found, a bit late in life, that one of the major secrets to financial success is showing up early to work, working hard, staying late (a little overtime), and coming back again the next day. I've never been as successful acquiring capital until this just clicked: Be a faithful worker first. Second: Just don't buy stuff, which is easy for me; hard for my wife =(
In my 20s when traditional retirement was explained to me as the acquisition phase, buying and investing, followed by the distribution phase, slowing selling down everything you have in life... And then dying penniless with nothing to give to your kids, well I thought that was stupid. Its what I said. "Thats stupid...", but I said it in my head, not out loud. This initial response to retirement is what finally, eventually, got me to dividend growth investing. I even started writing a chrome extension (free, of course) to help me do quick dirty research on a stock as I browse web pages featuring their ticker symbols. It doesn't work very well, but good enough for me, and I like doing things like that.
Anyway, good to meet you all! =) =) =)
I really like dividend growth investing, though I don't know much about it yet. I'm about 36, married and have two kids, one of which thinks its a teenager. I have a normal salary for someone who never finished college, but have gotten our savings rate up to 26% of my net take home salary. I've found, a bit late in life, that one of the major secrets to financial success is showing up early to work, working hard, staying late (a little overtime), and coming back again the next day. I've never been as successful acquiring capital until this just clicked: Be a faithful worker first. Second: Just don't buy stuff, which is easy for me; hard for my wife =(
In my 20s when traditional retirement was explained to me as the acquisition phase, buying and investing, followed by the distribution phase, slowing selling down everything you have in life... And then dying penniless with nothing to give to your kids, well I thought that was stupid. Its what I said. "Thats stupid...", but I said it in my head, not out loud. This initial response to retirement is what finally, eventually, got me to dividend growth investing. I even started writing a chrome extension (free, of course) to help me do quick dirty research on a stock as I browse web pages featuring their ticker symbols. It doesn't work very well, but good enough for me, and I like doing things like that.
Anyway, good to meet you all! =) =) =)