Brad – The Budget Brainiac

College

How to Manage Your Money as a Medical Resident: Key Considerations

BradMarch 26, 2025March 26, 2025

The past few days have my family filled with joy as my brother “matched” with a residency program in a competitive specialization. For those unfamiliar with the process, following medical...

Housing Taxes

Could Florida Homeowners Be Tax-Free?

BradMarch 19, 2025March 17, 2025

We are three months into a year where every day a front page-worthy story is relegated to the back of the paper. Between D.O.G.E, the trade war, global conflicts, a...

Work

How to Avoid Feeling Stuck at Your Job

BradMarch 12, 2025March 12, 2025

When you’ve reached the point when it is time to find a new job, it has likely been clear to you and the people closest to you, for quite some...

Budget

Achieve Savings: How to Create a Realistic Budget

BradMarch 5, 2025March 7, 2025

Do you struggle to effectively manage or track your expenses? Do you know how much is coming in, and how much is going out each month? If you don’t, or...

Life

How to Achieve Happiness…Pursue the Moment

BradMarch 25, 2023March 7, 2025

I last wrote in June of 2022 that my fiancée and I had recently purchased a house, and outlined what the experience was like at what might have been –...

Housing

Buying a House? Good Luck…

BradJune 20, 2022March 7, 2025

My fiancée and I recently purchased a house. Here’s the story… On the first Sunday in February, I called up an old friend from high school who works as a...

Markets

A Bloodbath in the Markets

BradFebruary 5, 2022March 7, 2025

To state that the stock market got off to a bumpy start for 2022 would be like saying Hurricane Katrina caused some minor damage…it’s a gross understatement. Unexpected, though? Not...

Work

Burnout: What is it?

BradNovember 7, 2021March 7, 2025

I was asked recently to speak to a small gathering of students at my alma mater. My presentation was one of three segments, each of which delivered by a different...

Book Review

The Intelligent Investor: A Review

BradSeptember 23, 2021March 7, 2025

I recently completed all 500+ pages of The Intelligent Investor (2003 edition with Jason Zweig). It turned out to be everything that I expected it to be: a collection of...

Work

A Return to the Office…Kind of

BradSeptember 16, 2021March 7, 2025

Exactly 18 months ago on March 16, 2020, I left the office around Noon with a 24” HP Monitor, a docking station, and a collection of cords in my car....