Financial Panther

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The Impact Of Friction And How It Holds Us Back From Getting Things Done

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When I quit my job in 2019 to go all-in on this blog, I knew that I had a few housekeeping tasks that I needed to complete. This included rolling over my 403b to my Solo 401k and getting health insurance before my 60-day COBRA retroactive period came to an end.  Of course, both of […]

Graduating College Early – That’s Probably What I Should Have Done

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When I look back at my college years, it often occurs to me that I probably should have tried graduating college early.  I’ve always been a bit of an over-achiever. When I was in high school, I took every AP class that I could manage, ending up with 8 AP classes over the course of […]

The Relative Value of Money

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There’s a concept that I’ve been thinking about over the past couple of years, especially as I’ve made this transition from a full-time, professional, real job, to a quasi-fake job as a blogger and gig economy worker. It has to do with a concept you could call the relative value of money. When I think […]

The Benefits Of Graduating During The Financial Crisis

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The other day, I was listening to a Planet Money podcast about how the United States is nearing full employment and it got me thinking about how different the world is today compared to the world I graduated into a decade ago. To set the scene for you, I graduated from college back in 2009, […]

I Quit My Job – Rejecting The Clear Career Path And Going Out On My Own

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About a year ago, I had a really bad day at work – so bad, in fact, that before I left work that day, I put an important event into my Google Calendar. I picked a date exactly one year into the future and wrote the following:  It was an audacious thing for me to […]

You Can’t Vs. Why Can’t You

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One of the interesting things I’ve noticed is that when you start telling people to do things differently, a lot of people start coming out of the woodwork to tell you why whatever it is you’re telling people to do can’t be done. The reasoning varies slightly, but the end result always seems to be the […]

Financial Panther 2018 Personal And Blog Year In Review

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With 2019 just starting up, I thought it’d be a good time to look back at 2018 and review how my year went, both personally and on this blog. What follows is a post that covers four things: (1) a brief financial year in review; (2) a travel year in review; (3) a blog year […]

Fighting The Innate Urge To Chase Prestige

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Part of the duties of my current day job involves going to a bunch of lawyer conferences. As a result, I’m often surrounded by really successful lawyers. These are lawyers who have done pretty much everything right in their legal careers – top grades, good law schools, big-name law firms. One thing they all definitely […]

Opportunity Cost And My Wife’s $500,000 Residency Program

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This past weekend was a busy one in the Financial Panther household. My wife finally completed the last year of her dental residency and we had family come into town to celebrate the milestone. I even flew my mom in for the weekend (using points that I’ve accumulated over the past year, of course). My […]

Side Hustling Has Never Really Been About The Money To Me

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A common criticism that I get with some of my side hustles is that they’re – to be frank – a waste of my time. In all honesty, I can’t necessarily argue with that. I went to four years of college and three years of law school. My education has a retail value of well […]

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