The hardest part about being a dividend investor

My name is Jake. Welcome to the channel. I've been investing for nearly 20 years and some of those years have been great and some of those years have not been so great. In today's video, I want to share with you my own personal experiences of the hardest part about being a dividend investor. But first, if you're new to my

channel, I retired from my corporate day job at the age of 37 and I now live off my dividend portfolio. I've been making YouTube videos and talking about dividend investing for 7 years now and I don't like to take myself too seriously and just genuinely love talking about dividend investing. It feels like over

the last few years, the term dividend investor can mean many different things. With the rise of covered call ETFs and other income strategies, the term dividend investing kind of gets lumped together despite there being many different types of dividend investing approaches. In this video, I'm going to refer more to your grandpa's dividend

investing approach, the more traditional form of dividend investing, you know, investing into a company that pays a two or three percent dividend yield, like a company like Coca-Cola or Johnson & Johnson. And I'm not talking about, you know, covered call ETFs on, you know, cryptocurrencies that are leveraged, all that synthetic stuff. No, we're talking

about traditional dividend investing here in this video. As dividend investors, we know our investments are most likely not going to go to the moon. I mean, who invests in a Johnson & Johnson or, you know, Coca-Cola or Procter & Gamble expecting it to go to the moon? You know, most of us are

content with this because we love receiving the income and not having to sell our shares. And well, I guess being content with that, well, it could look a little like this. >> If you would have asked me when I was 18 years old where I thought I would be when I was 38, I think it probably would