Job hunting, trading and back to training

Hi,

It's been afew weeks since my last update and in this time quite afew things have happened. I sent out afew job applications, mainly to startups as I prefer less bureaucratic environments and they were mainly in the field of financial technology which I thought was interesting. My first few applications have not given me any replies and I guess I won't be hearing back from them. The last said I had a strong application however they found someone else who was better suited probably due to the fact that I didn't have much industry experience. Well, I'll keep looking around and I might apply if the location and job seems interesting. This job hunt was more thorough than last year. Previously I really had no idea what I wanted to do and would have just jumped into any job even if I didn't like it. Now having had some experience working, I have a better idea of the environment I want and what I am interested in and what I am not.

Maybe that's why it's harder to find another job now. In the meantime, while awaiting replies from companies, I started to seriously learn trading and technical analysis. I find that there are many YouTube channels such as Tone Vays, The Chart guys and Philakone really useful in getting newbies like me into trading. These guys really know their stuff and I'm not surprised they are doing well. 

I started trading the Bitcoin I bought much more seriously now and at first I wasn't making much and was often stuck in bad trading positions. But after afew months of reading and watching these guys, I'm starting to make more progress and have begun to accumulate and grow my crypto accounts slowly but surely. Now the only thing that worries me if that the exchange gets hacked or that it will take a long time for prices to recover for me to cash out and realize my profits. 

Also I started moving into quities and etfs as this would allow me to realize profits in dollars instead of in Bitcoin(so that I can use it for daily life). Hopefully I can continue to improve with more time as I quite enjoy trading and reading about markets which was the reason I liked economics so much.Still, I will continue to keep a look out for any good jobs out there as it would be nice to also meet new people and not just be coped up in front of my computer and charts all day. 

I also signed up for my final coaching course certification. I would like to get it done and be fully recognized as a qualified kayak coach in the case that I would like to coach in the future. I haven't decided yet, but since I am not competing this year in the asian games, it gives me more time to do other things.

Also I got back into proper training., I feel technically better and have been working to improve my base speeds. However my fitness needs a lot of work now as I haven't been pushing myself very hard training alone most of the time. I did have Daniel and the juniors for awhile which was great and it reminded me of the early years between 2007 and 2011. Those were great times to paddle when there were a lot of motivated people around who were also fun to hang out with. It seems like everyone is moving on to other things but I still like kayaking too much to stop doing it on a daily basis.

Hopefully I will be able to find my ikigai as well. If you don't know what it is, look it up on google!

Till the next update.