It’s Whatever Wednesdays. After spending some time on Twitter these last two weeks, I think I’ve really been able to figure out who I am trying to help. In my About section, I wrote: [[—- begin copy/paste —-]] What do you hope to accomplish? What is the end game? Hope to accomplish? My goals are both meager and lofty. First, this will be a place to collect all my thoughts and experiences. I want to share […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
Happy Columbus Day aka Discoverer’s Day. No post today, but feel free to check out older posts here. Here are a few of my popular recent tweets too: Student Loans Physician Burnout My Patronus RT: Coffee from the AHA Pizza Wisdom from my daughter -Sensei Questions, Comments and Suggestions are welcome. You don’t need to fill out your email address, just write your name or nickname.
Columbus Day 2016
We’re going to switch gears this week and talk about retirement planning a bit again, specifically: pensions. In my prior posts based upon retirement, I touch upon pensions a little bit. Retiring Early, How to Retire Early, Early Retirement is Easy?, and Best Bang for Your Buck Retirement Locations I also briefly mentioned that you should consider pensions when you are Choosing Your First Job However, I didn’t realize that I had not really discussed […]
How to Value a Pension
This is a follow-up post to Monday’s post about Residency Interviews. Since it’s more a “general” topic about traveling for any interview, I’ve decided to post it on Whatever Wednesdays rather than wait until next week for Medicine Mondays. Nonetheless, because it is Residency Interview season, I will focus on that: First of all, I apologize that this post was kind of late. Normally, I write these to be scheduled for posting at 9 am Hawaii […]
Traveling for Interviews
Recently, I’ve been pretty active on Twitter. It’s been fun to post GIFs everywhere and interacting with really cool people. However, more so than that, I’ve been able to find out about topics which are really important to the target demographic of my blog, namely, pre-meds, medical students, and residents. Since we’re in the middle of match, and interview invites are starting, I felt it was important to talk about residency interviews. Here’s a thread from @mcsassymd (Sassy, […]
Residency Interviews
What is a DINK? DINK is an acronym which stands for Dual Income No Kids. I had no idea what this meant until a high school friend used it to refer to one of our other high school friends: “Hey, how’s [our other friend] doing?” “Oh, he’s married now. No kids though.” “Oh what!? Couple of DINKs huh?” “…?” He then went on to explain it meant Dual Income No Kids, and I guess it […]