Originally Posted by
ccmdfd
That sounds about right.
I knew a couple, they were both doctors and residents in our training program where I worked at the time. At that time residents typically made roughly $30,000 a year.
When most doctors finally graduate from their residency and get a real job with real physician pay, they quickly by the big house, big car, fancy watch, Etc.
Well this couple didn't. They continue to live in the same place, Drive the same car, live off of roughly $60,000 a year while making a heck of a lot more than that. They retired after working only 10 years or so. In their early forties. Heck, maybe late thirties.