Portfolio Peaks to Unemployment Pits: Surviving 2025's Financial Firestorm

The final month countdown is on and everyone is either rushing to complete something or is busy tracking what they've did all this year and some are just resting

so they can have a fresh start meanwhile I'm one of those people who have lost, get back on feet, made it all back and lost again, started from zero once more

Instead of just giving up and moving on with the life.

A Year full of Plot Twists

This year began on a good way like my portfolio was almost at all time highs while I was still employed newly found a job at the beginning of this year

But later it all went downhill one by one, one month at a time.

While I thought I'm working and saving so I can build a house at some point in future

What I had no idea was it'll turn into a disaster. First quarter was all busy on the job and getting to know each other in a new workplace.

After first quarter Q2 turned out quite good when July arrived and market went up, portfolio made all time highs.

The Last Two quarters

It all went downhill in the final two quarters of this year. Market started going down slowly

While stocks were only going up so it had everyone an illusion that crypto is only lagging and will catch up with stocks soon

But we got fooled and those portfolio ATH's are never seen since the end of July.

Despite of the consistency and working twice harder than last year, portfolio was only slowly bleeding.

Later I had my bank account frozen and amount was stuck for weeks which I've got unblocked somehow.

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse the final hammer was smashed by uncertain times

The final nail on the coffin

The moment q4 began like on the first week I lost my job that I started working at the beginning of this year and that was a complete surprise.

The moment that happened it all got more worse because it happened a week before that 10.10.25 crash happened and all of the altcoins almost went to zero.

That was the last final nail in the coffin and I knew there's no coming from all this and it'll take an year or more to rebuild everything I had lost.

Kept the job search going for an entire month and found one the next month after being like unemployed for a month with portfolio as low as not seen in 2022 bear market.

This was all such an emotional ride for me and now I know I'll have to do better and more work to get where I was before all this happened.

In the end I ain't have no "next year will be mine" left in me, I'll just do what I can do like give my heart out into whatever I'll be doing and leave the results on god. That's all I'm going to do now. Wonder how this year was for you? Do share about it in the comments.

that's all folks.