Being a hospitalist sucks, and I'm quitting

[Splenda88]

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Congrats, that's Amazing!
3 kids and the freedom live life exactly on your terms- that's what it's all about. You truly won at life!

I'm a couple years older and probably a couple mils poorer but hoping to be in your boat in the next 3-5 years when my kids start school.

Just gotta add- you can get there the boring way as well. Other than owning a bitcoin or two and moonlighting alot the first few years, everything else has been mostly VTSAX and chill.

Also curious to hear about your path there though?


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You have won the game. How your household income look like for the past 4 yrs?

 

[Nocturnist]

You have won the game. How is you household income look like for the past 4 yrs?

Low-mid 600s since kids were born.
Our earning potential peaks at 750-800 when both fully employed but spouse went very part time since becoming parents.

Wouldn't say I won anything yet. 4% of my investments is barely 100k/year which wouldn't even cover a half of my expenses, but I'm hoping it'll be much closer in 5 years.

 

[sloh]

I’m mid thirties and this month I crossed $4M threshold for my taxable accounts.
From stock trading. Otherwise we also have a paid off home, paid off 400k student loans years ago, and we have $1M+ in our retirement accounts (401k, IRA etc).

I’m retiring from my hospitalist gig later this year.

You only live once.

You can choose the boring way with boring index funds and work for decades.

Or live freely after working extremely hard upfront and going the extra mile to teach yourself skills for taking risks (be it stocks, starting a business, whatever). The initial couple years of grinding 25+ shifts a month were worth it and paid off handsomely.

Going to be amazing spending my days raising our 3 kids. No more heartbreaking cries of “daddy don’t go work”!

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Inspiring! If you don't mind me asking, where do you live?

 

[glorifiedresident]

i'm guessing tech heavy portfolio (NVDA, META) etc. i'm older and doing well, at that age mid-30's i was still hungry for more work and $$, retiring was the last thing on my mind.