Go from burnt out to FIREd up.
The gospel of real estate has received a lot of air time on Big Physician Finance recently. I consider myself to be on good terms with the powerhouse physician finance bloggers (even if all but a couple couldn’t pick me out of a lineup). I realize that’s such a niche market that it’s akin to boasting of your band’s status …
Doc 2 Disco is a refreshing new voice in the physician finance blogosphere, urging her readers to “tackle the burn through personal finance and hustle.” A highly-trained, dual-boarded specialist within a niche area of medicine, on the surface she might seem the unlikeliest of candidates to walk away from her career. Like many of us, an accumulation of ever-increasing aggravations …
The pursuit of financial independence linked to the desire to spend some of my adult years pursuing activities other than medicine can seem like a deeply lazy indulgence to many colleagues. Choosing to leave medicine in these prime adult years by these folks is seen as twofold betrayal. First, there is the obvious implicit lost income during one’s peak earning …
Dr. Y is a rare and exotic species among Docs Who Cut Back: a surgical subspecialist who completed a decade-long course of training in a highly competitive field. More unusual still, she opted to cut back 4 years after working full-time as a subspecialist attending (to be fair, she worked one additional year as a general surgeon prior to entering …
Some phone calls are long overdue by the time you make them. Distance learning has echoed evolution in our household by rewarding specialization. As a dual-nerd couple, my wife has adopted the more time-consuming math supplementation while I have offered to help teach science and social studies. Discussing the classification of species with my 13 year old recently, I caught …
I enjoyed many guilty pleasures in my TV gorging teen years, but none were so satisfying as tuning into a “Where are they now?” program. Whether it was one hit wonders on VH1 or my favorite child actors from Punky Brewster, Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life, I could not get enough of this silliness. There was the male …
Developing financial literacy, and the pursuit of financial independence, tends to generate extreme enthusiasm among participants. People go big. Folks who stumble across the Mr. Money Mustache blog don’t just take note of MMM’s frugal lifestyle, they tend to judge whether they are following the precepts of Mustachianism, a tongue in cheek term for a cult that is more serious …
We tend to recall our winners disproportionately, a wiring flaw in our human composition. I first became acquainted with this fact when someone dear to me began touting her remarkable track record with matchmaking friends. She liked to entertain friends at social gatherings with the two marriages that had come into being due to her intervention. Much was made by …
Years ago, I read Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. One of the most striking concepts in the book was what one of the top engineers at Apple called the reality distortion field, a Trekkie term co-opted to describe how Jobs made the impossible seem plausible to those in his immediate vicinity and overcame their objections to reach unlikely outcomes. …
COVID seems like such a weird way to spend a childhood…except for all the other ways. Solitary, sure. Antisocial, of course. But weird is a relative term. I was thinking back to the music videos that defined my childhood in the 1980s, and I couldn’t help but be struck by how weird it all seems in retrospect. Take an artist …