$25,000 a year, Received first paycheck. I'll start bitcoin and let time do the work. RANT.

Got my first paycheck Friday last week, spent the whole weekend thinking about what to do with it. It was a slog to get that job. I get $25,000 USD a year, or $481 a week. I realized it was less because apparently, employers withhold a little bit for taxes. No one ever taught me that. And it might seem stupid to some, but I felt I was betrayed learning about things and systems generally designed to financially fuck with the average person.

Got no house, living with parents. No car. $2k in debt (0% APR for a few months), since I've been attending an online college (WGU) with hopes for a better future. I shouldn't be complaining since there's other folks who have it worse. There's probably a ton of folks in my position from Generational Alpha.

Been lurking in the thread for a year now, if I had a job back then, I would have started back then. In my younger years, never would I have thought that I would feel so defeated using my first paycheck.

I don't want the newest shiny. I lived with hand me downs my entire life. I just want the feeling of safety that has eluded me this entire time. A place to rest comfortably, and maybe somebody cool to share that place with. This is another dream, out of many lost dreams.

I'll DCA BITCOIN in strike for $100 a week. And maybe when I have extra cash, I'll pop in a cheeky lump sum. I'll get a hard wallet at some point, then do that shenanigans, because I am incredibly skeptical of everything. If strike pulls an FTX, it is what it is.

Lots of regrets in life and knowing my luck, I'm probably buying at the top. If shit hits the fan, it is what it is. I might come back to this post after a few years, but honestly I hope my future self can just look back, see some progress, and be a little grateful I started here now.

TLDR. Life sucks. Low energy, took me an hour to write this before work. Going for homerun with bitcoin. Withdraw to cold storage. I ain't touching this for years. And I got to get to work.