My dad is a neonatologist, meaning he cares for the preemies that are whisked away in incubators before their mothers even have a chance to hold them. It’s a tough job, I’m sure, but rewarding to help many of them make up for lost uterine time and catch up with their eight-pound-at-birth behemoth counterparts. It’s surprising how prospective parents wish …
We’ll pick up right where we left Sonya, the intrepid daughter of a boar wrestling mother and doily-designing father. She just graduated from her internal medicine residency at the University of Wisconsin with a net worth of -$61,874. That student loan debt that looked so fearsome is starting to appear more house pig than wild boar. Fellowship, Year 1 : …
Or, what we can learn from the FIRE community. The FIRE movement, or Financially Independent, Retired Early, is swiftly emerging from years underground. Some very well known blogs, such as Mr. Money Moustache, Millennial Money, and The Money Habit, are FIRE blogs. The idea is to create a debt management and investment plan early, invest a lot of your income, …
Presenting a fictional but realistic situation where someone with a plan defies the odds and starts her healthcare career with a positive net worth. Without rich parents. Meet Sonya. The boar isn’t Sonya, and it wasn’t supposed to look so friendly, but whatever. Sonya is from Arkansas, where her mother is the state’s only female free hand wild boar wrestler …