I’m a board-certified Anesthesiologist and Pain Medicine fellow working in the Mid-Atlantic.
I have $250,000 in debt, and I plan to have it paid off by July 2022, three years out of fellowship.
This is a chronicling of my mistakes, my successes, and my accumulated wisdom on the journey to get back to broke (and beyond).
Late (and abbreviated) post this month. Have spent the past week moving and settling in to my new city, with still much to be done. I don’t start my new gig until the beginning of August, and I’ve been cherishing this time with Mrs. PayItBack and our little one. Budget/Cash
OKAY, lord knows I’m a perfectionist, but up above is what I hope will be the final iteration of my net worth tracker. I’ve redone a lot of the timeline so that it better reflects the merging of my wife and my finances when we got married, rather than just
I’VE PASSED MY ANESTHESIA BOARDS. There is now nothing standing in between me and life as a successful physician. It is actually surreal to not have something looming in the distance, some wall or storm on the horizon. There has always been one more interview, one more test, one more
Somewhat swamped with fellowship work and planning for next year, so this will be a brief one. I got my first real doctor check in the form of a signing bonus, and while taxes took their obligatory bite out of it, it’s a still a crazy feeling and barely feels
First, the big news: I’ve signed a contract! Come August 1st, I’ll start my first big-boy job doing both interventional pain and OR anesthesia. I’m obviously excited for a number of reasons, but most relevant to this blog is the fact that my pre-tax income will be going up by