New Chapter
A new chapter of our journey towards FIRE has dawned. I finally found that elusive first job as a NP. Despite difficulty finding nurse practitioner job, we have been smashing our FIRE goals.
Nursing
True Secret to Financial Independence
The true secret to financial independence is enough. May our pursuit of financial independence never squelch our gratitude of our situation or place in life.
7 Steps to Help Nurses Start Investing
Can you imagine a generation of nurses who graduate financially savvy and investment smart? My undergraduate nursing program and my recent graduate nurse practitioner program had ZERO information about personal finance much less investing the money we’d be soon making. We just learned how much student loan we would get with the promise of TONS of good-paying jobs for nurses. Reality is I graduated with too much student debt and no financial advice from my nursing programs.
Scary Money Survey
Often people end up living this way because they don’t know anything different, and this is how their parents and family have always lived. There are no current surveys that I’m aware of that examine nurses and their money habits. I would guess that nurses save pretty similar to the average American. And that’s SCARY!
3 Reasons Nurses Don’t Talk about Finances
Change in the financial world is happening from the ground up starting with innovative, average income earners like nurses! Despite being a huge part of the labor force, I rarely hear about nurses pursuing financial independence. Why?
Our Financial Destination
A tragic yet unfortunately common story are those who have poor financial habits AND no financial destination or purpose.
My Financial Journey – Part 1
All throughout school we heard about the great nursing shortage, but here I was 2 months into the job hunt without any real prospects. I only had enough money for one more month of rent. I now realize just how much money I wasted over my first couple of years out of nursing school especially when I was a travel nurse. Had I started budgeting right away out of school, I’m sure I would be much further ahead in my journey to financial independence.