FIRE Crossroads 030: A Physician and Pharmacist are Almost There!

A watched pot never boils. And a watched investment account never grows.

OK: that may be an overstatement, but today’s interviewee in this FIRE Crossroads installment is tantalizingly close to their self-stated financial independence number.

Of course, the recent volatility in the market and the swoon of all of the major indexes and equities of late is pushing that number a bit further and further away as each day passes. But our intrepid interviewee soldiers on in a job that’s requiring more of her than she’s willing to give lately.

Read on to see how things are slated to shake out for this physician and pharmacist couple–with kids, too!

I wanted to contribute from the perspective of a female physician with a family, because those are under-represented in this series. I do not fault PoF for this at all; I suspect most of us women MDs are too busy and/or too tired to take the time to fill out the interview form!

There are also not too many of us posting about the challenges of having teenage children; it seems most of the “Crossroads” folks have little kids, and the “Post-FI” crowd is either child-free or empty-nest. Adolescents, lemme tell ya, are their own thing. (Car insurance expenses, anyone?)

Where are you on your financial independence journey? Have you crossed the halfway point in terms of net worth and/or passive income?

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We are well past the halfway point, although not as close as we were two months ago, given the stock market lately! Our net worth, not counting real estate, is about $2.4 million. I think we’re getting close.

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