I fell short again this past week with just under $50 dollars in beer money income. I’m not going to let it get me down, though, because I was extremely busy, I still made money, and I pulled in over $90 dollars the week before. I also kicked off April with over $20 in a day.
I’ve been using Google Sheets to track all of this data, but I’ve also begun using a site called Snowball Analytics. I like it because it’s fairly simple, easy-to-use, and looks nice. It does a lot of calculations for me which are both motivating to see and help me make purchasing decisions. For instance, I can see that right now my portfolio is yielding about 9%. I know this is a bit too high to be sustainable, but it looks like I’ll reach my goal some time in 2025 with my current contribution frequency and then I can ease into better long-term positions. Compounding should really start picking up by then as well.
It looks like CloudResearch has gotten their issue with PayPal fixed, but I still haven’t been able to set up direct deposit. I will cautiously continue using the platform to earn beer money, but if they make any more big mistakes I suspect I may have to drop them.
In any case, another week grinding, but this time with nice weather as spring has sprung.