I haven't had a job for 2 years

No regrets since leaving Business Insider to start a media company.

I haven’t had a job for two years.

That’s because it’s the two-year anniversary since launching Opening Bell Daily.

I’m in a lucky spot where each day I get to figure out both how to build a business as well as report on the most unpredictable financial markets in history.

Strangers and friends tell me my work helps them make sense of their money and how it fits into the world around them. That never feels normal. I hope it never does.

The constant context switching pushes me most.

A typical day includes back to back meetings with sponsors and prospective interview guests, filming an episode of my show, debugging the code for our portfolio-tracking software, commuting to a studio for a TV segment.

Then there are the dozens of charts I post across social media each day.

Emailing with readers around the clock. The media dinners and events I host for Journalists Club.

It’s a chaotic juggling act that I’d be sad to give up.

And all of it is anchored by the newsletter.

The act of sitting to write each day is what allows me to keep my brain in order, converse with people smarter than me, and operate a financial media company with context and depth.

The writing habit is the engine. Everything else is downstream.

I don’t know what this company or the work will look like in another two years. But I feel confident that the newsletter will still go out each morning.

Once the morning email stops, everything else will lose its punch.

Onward to year three!

Phil Rosen
Co-founder of Opening Bell Media | Host of Full Signal

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