2021 ended and I decided to do a retrospective avout the entire year about my family life, job and financial. I will also define my plans for 2022 in order to have some goals to fight for in this year.
Family Life
It was an amazing year since I received the news that I will be father again. This time it is a boy.
This is very important to me since we had a family goal to have a kids couple (1 girl and 1 boy).
The boy name is Miguel and shall be born this month.
Job
It was a year of change in this matter.
I decided to change company leaving the company where I had been working for almost 10 years as a Software Engineer programming in Common Lisp developing Software for trains and metro companies like London Undegrond, NS (Dutch Railways), VY (Norwaegian State railways), VR (Finnish Railways), FGC (Catalonian Railways), DSB (DAnish Railways), MEDWAY (Iberia Freight Railwyas) and Lisbon Metro.
If you uses any of these trains or metro companies please don't blame for the dealys since I didn't drive I only was developing the sodtware for the companies plan the works shifts.
I ended up embrancing a new challenge ina completely differente business area where we use C# languange to program and besides being a Software Engineer I also have the role of Scrum Master in 2 projects.
Financial
I can say that in financial terms, despite the pandemic, 2021 was a good year.
Because I started using DEFI, I managed to pay off 2 of the 4 bank loans, making my family more financially free.
I still tried to liquidate the third one but I couldn't reach the necessary amount.
After Defi I started to enter play2earn and here I had both good and less good experiences, but they served as a learning curve.
These were my investments in play2earn and its ROI
| Play2Earn Project | Investment | Retun |
|---|---|---|
| Axie Infinity | $3500 | $1248,58 |
| PvU | $30 | $0 |
| BombCrypto | $496,14 | $1009,46 |
| Thetan Arena | $1000 | $587,93 |
My investment in Axie Infinity was to create a scholarship program that started with 2 teams but now I have managed to increase it to 4 teams and if possible I intend to continue to increase the number of teams little by little.
PVU was a game I joined by FOMO and I ended up not being able to make my ROI and it reminded me that my investment profile despite being "radical" (since investing in NFT games is very risky) is at the same time conservative and that's why I never joined a project just because I saw everyone doing the ROI quickly and making good profits.
BombCrypto is a "game", I don't think this can be call as a game, which I decided to invest after having studied the worst possible scenario in terms of ROI in case I didn't have any luck lying to my characters. Apparently, I was able to enter the project at the right time and buy my 15 characters to have a full account, as the token was even more than 2x after I entered the game and I was able to take advantage of this valuation.
I still have my account there and I'm putting the characters to play even though what I earn at the moment is much less than what I earned before.
In the case of Thetan Arena I decided to invest by buying 4 characters because it's a game style I like and in case I can't make the ROI of my investment I live well with it because I enjoy playing the game.
Family Life
In family terms, my only goal for this year will be to enjoy as much quality time as possible with my family.
Job
The main objective for this year is to finish my C# course in order to regain the same productivity I had programming as when programming in Common Lisp.
In order to solidify the course concepts I'm thinking about starting to write some posts related to C#.
Financial
In this chapter I have 2 main objectives.
My first objective is related to the fact that I want to pay off another one of my bank loans.
However I know it can be something too ambitious because the price is €13 240 and I don't want to lower my standard of living.
So I will go back to using DeFi, if the market allows it, to help me get as much as possible to get rid of this loan.
The other objective is related to Hive and Leo.
Last year in order to clear one of the credits I was forced to powerdown Hive and sell some Hive tokens.
So this year I want to focus on getting back to power up Hive and Leo mainly.
My goals for both this year are to get back to 3000 Hive in Hive Power and get at least 1000 Leo in Leo Power.
However my Leo Power, because I'm not very good at curating posts, I've decided that I will delegate all my Leos to 
I hope next year when I do the retrospective again I have managed to achieve my goals because that way means that I made the effort and kept my focus on them.
