From broke biologist to successful scientist
As a financial blogger, sometimes I like to think that I’ve got my shit together. The truth is, sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I fuck up royally, and guess what folks, it’s this month. See, I’ve been sort of hiding something from everyone, and this is the month I get it off my chest. It’s kind…
Almost everyone has heard of Dave Ramsey, even your sweet old nana. He’s done a lot of great things for the personal finance world and helped a shit ton of people get out of debt. If you’re not quite up to speed with DR, he’s got a series of “baby steps” you follow (in…
January 2019 was a just-OK month for us. But that doesn’t mean it was a bad month – far from the truth! In fact, in the upcoming months we’ll be able to make BIG progress towards our goal of being debt-free. W00t! Also new in this video, I walk you through my own Undebt.it…
Student loans are student loans, right? I used to think so too…until I had to start paying my private student loans back, and realized my friends (with federal student loans) had it way easier than me! The truth is that they are very different, and those differences have a big impact on your ability to…
In my FIRST video debt report for 2019, I’ll be covering how 2018 went and where we’re at with our debt at the end of December 2018. We paid off three debts in 2018: Personal loan to pay for our broken-ass house from three years ago Personal loan to pay for Zach to attend…
We made it! We’re finally installed in Washington. Unfortunately our apartment still needed a ton of remodelling from the last tenants. This put my schedule behind for a while (and then I had to play catch-up with client work), but now holy Batman I’m back! Another thing I hadn’t planned on was the amount of…
“Moving is fun.” Said NO ONE EVER. This month, we’re gearing up for our cross-country move in June. There’s only one problem: we don’t know when we’re moving yet. Our new apartment is a small mom-and-pop kinda thing, and since the old tenants are moving out today, they don’t know how much work’ll be…
Hello and welcome to the third installment of our monthly Financial Progress reports! I’m still learning a good method to do these. This month I messed up a little bit and didn’t write down my deets at the very end of April—April 30th. Most of our loan payments are taken out on the first…
Hello and welcome back to our second-ever financial progress report! This month we had some big changes. I had high hopes to pay off a bunch of debt with extra money I’d saved up for taxes with my business. I ended up way oversaving for taxes, and I got to pay myself out a…
Me and Zach currently live in Colorado. I know what you’re thinking. Endless snowcapped mountains, weed- and craft-beer fueled hippies, and beautiful vistas everywhere, right? I hate it here. Mostly because Alaska—where we met—ruined everything for me. There’s too many goddamn people here, there’s no good forests and big, lush trees for privacy, and…
