Another go at not pissing it all up the wall

Last day in Mallorca and the realisation there is plenty more work left to do.

So I started that goal with one more beer on this sunny balcony. I'm all packed, printed off some papers that might be useful while I wander around Valencia trying to get registered for social seguridad and taxes, and have just finished cleaning what has been my home for the past 18 months. It's not actually my home (cheers Mum), but it might be half mine in the future, if I can afford to pay Spanish inheritance tax. This will hopefully be many years down the road, but the fact you must pay 25% of the value of a place already owned by a family member is a bit of a joke. Even England isn't that retarded.

When my Dad passed, we had an unresolved argument regarding my daughters surname. Considering I don't have his surname, the chances of me persuading my daughters mum to use that one (since we weren't married) were 0. The fact my surname is on the birth certificate is a bonus and something her mother dislikes, as it means if something did happen to her, I would get full custody, and not her husband. My dad left me his wallet, empty, in his will. Lol

A few years ago I was backdated some salary, I bought 2kg of silver and some shares. Bitcoin was mentioned, but I didn't bother with those. The last I looked, they were being used to buy fake shit in Second Life - surely they weren't going anywhere.

You certainly know what happened to BTC, probably know what's happened to silver since 2013 (fuck all), and can probably guess how my shares have done (abysmally, so where does that leave me? Well, reading @revisesociology's latest on the UK earnings/housing fiasco, up shit creek without a paddle is probably a fair assessment. 75000 pounds is the recommended figure to get on that housing ladder and make a go of it. That number comes with additional terms too, and I suspect that paying 18% of net earnings as child maintenance should be on that list of terms, cause basically I've been paying somewhere in the region of 56% 'tax' for almost 13 years.

The year I started University (as instructed by dad), the house next door was valued at 30000 pounds, 4 years later I graduated and it was sold for almost 90000. An Year long apprenticeship (gas, electrician, plumber, brickie, etc) was at the time considered the weaker option. I know a few guys from school who never listened for a minute, set for life these days for taking the 'dropouts' choice.

Meh, can't change any of that, but I do have a say in what is ahead. And that looks for the time being to be a good few years of graft, even for a small place in the sun, or not.

Tomorrow I fly to Valencia to (re)start work for the United Nations. I've loaned a little from various parties to get set up, but in a few months time will be level, and have some fiat to set on fire move somewhere 'sensible'. The majority certainly won't be staying in my bank account, I've already got a little bullion, fuck the stock market, so the other 'obvious' choice is cryptocurrency.

Likely against all professional financial advice, I'll be going almost all in here. For me, cryptocurrency looks the most likely 10x opportunity, and that's the sort of multiplier I need to sort some bricks out, and not be homeless come retirement age. The likely majority will be held in Steem Power, with some STEEM on the exchanges lying in wait for a repeat of January 2017. Personally I don't see that happening this year, and think mid 2020 or 2021. That'll do for me though, another chance to collect near the bottom, hopefully.

To the people I met at Steemfest, and the many who engage with me frequently here on Steem, good luck to us, see you in Valencia 😁

Asher