Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Time to start the Engine.




I've been investing since I was a kid.

I was six years old when I got my first stocks. I got them as a present from my aunt. She worked at a bank and those stocks were shares of the bank she worked for. This was in the early nineties.

When I was a kid I saved my weekly allowance, all the money I got from doing simple tasks for example at grandparents ranch, cash I got as a present and so on.

I remember going to the bank to deposit the money I had saved up and remember looking at my bankbook (I'm one of those who miss them haha, digital money you can't even smell) where it would show "deposit +500" but there would also be a line which showed "dividends +1,35". I remember asking my aunt what they were and she'd explain me and I'd be "cool", more money.

Well, I hope I had understood then that I should get more of those shares to get more dividends. Unfortunately I didn't. I forgot about and went forward.

So here I sit, after hours in my 9-to-5 office and writing the first blog post about my journey of dividend investing.

I'm going to call my blog Dividend Growth Engine and I'm going to build this Engine piece by piece.