I Live In A World of Numbers, Financial Independence Is No Different
I Live In a World of Numbers Have you ever verbalized a thought in conversation, and then paused realizing that it is one of those great truths in your life? You might have said...
Category: Budget
Travel Hacking-Why I Refuse To Break the Seal
Why I Refuse To Break the Seal You must be living under a rock if you’ve not heard of travel hacking. Almost every personal finance blog or podcast has tackled this subject at one...
The Frugality Wars
The Frugality Wars My mother had a plan. After my father died. She looked at her three young boys and knew what had to be done. This was before my stepfather entered the picture....
Net Worth Ain’t Nothin But A Number
Net Worth Ain’t Nothin But A Number Yesterday was a big day for me. I was featured on The ESI Money Blog as Millionaire 47 which drove lots of traffic to my little blog...
Money Is Power
Money Is Power At the risk of repeating this blog post, I believe money is power. Financial independence is the freedom to exercise this power that’s consistent with your values and ethics. Those struggling...
Who Does That?
Who Does That? Who does that? It was almost a whisper. Her overwhelming brown eyes boring into my soul as her lips curled into a half-moon smile. Her hands attached to elbows bent at...
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...
Our Non Budget
Non Budget Almost every where you look, there are budgeting tips and hacks in the financial independence community. Most of us our limited in how much we can make in our W2 incomes per...
