Hung Up On Returns?
Hung Up On Returns? Are we hung up on returns? I often wonder that as I listen to the arguments for and against different investment classes. Index funds vs stock picking. Owned real estate...
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Income Identity
Income Identity I have been thinking a lot about career and life transitions lately. Transitioning to part time work or half retirement has been relatively seamless. But, I have to admit that there was...
The Best Financial Plans Have Four Legs
The Best Financial Plans Have Four Legs Although I talked about side hustles as a form of diversification in my last post, often when we use the D word, eyes glaze over. Although a...
Are Side Hustles a Form of Diversification?
A commenter recently mentioned that she thought that side hustles are a waste of time. And it is true, my ridiculous love affair with side hustles seems, at times, a little self-indulgent. After all,...
Good Decision/Bad Decision: Being Your Own Boss
Good Decision/Bad Decision Today’s subject will hopefully be part of a regular series of Monday posts. As you recall, I recently started Gratitude Wednesdays. This series will focus on my past decisions to shed...
Good Decision/Bad Decision: Skipping Business School
Good Decision/Bad Decision Today’s subject will hopefully be part of a regular series of Monday posts. As you recall, I recently started Gratitude Wednesdays. This series will focus on my past decisions to shed...
High Income, Broke Anyway
High Income/Broke Anyway After being an employee for an academic medical center for the first several years of practice, I joined an established medical group. The owner was gracious enough to hire me in...
Adventures In Moonlighting
Adventures In Moonlighting Physicians-in-training make a pittance when one looks at the hourly rate, Especially when I was residency, in the early 2000’s. I often worked upwards of 100 hrs/week and made $30,000 per...
Mind The Gap (Ratio)
Mind The Gap The phrase was first coined in 1968 as an automated auditory warning to train passengers on the London Underground making them aware of the horizontal and sometimes vertical space between the train door...
Afraid to be the Boss? Enrich Others Faster Than Yourself
Be The Boss After finishing my residency in internal medicine, I took a job as a hospitalist at a local hospital. Not more than a month into my new practice, I knew that this...
