New Doctor, Am I Doing Enough?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
Audacy
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
I'm a relatively new doctor, and I'm finally making good money, am I doing enough to prepare for retirement?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Monday, September 29th, and we are here trying to help you make better, sometimes less bad financial decisions. |
| 0:12.2 | We understand that a lot of your financial life is wrapped up in many other decisions. |
| 0:17.6 | And so if you're feeling a little bit like you don't know which direction, how you're |
| 0:22.1 | being pulled and you need just some ideas around how to get where you want to go, get in touch |
| 0:27.5 | with us. Go to jillonmoney.com. Click the contact us button. Write us a note. And if you would |
| 0:32.3 | like to join us on the air live, check the box. Mark does everything else. Don't forget to sign |
| 0:36.8 | for the free weekly newsletter. So easy to do. Mark does everything else. Don't forget to sign up for the free weekly |
| 0:37.7 | newsletter. It's so easy to do. Mark will make that easy for you. It's right there on the website. |
| 0:42.7 | And you can also check out all the other free content that lives on the website, including our sister |
| 0:48.9 | broadcast, which is called Money Watch, which we drop on the weekends, as well as our radio show. |
| 0:54.5 | There's also videos and resources, a blog, everything you could ever want, right there at |
| 0:58.9 | JillonMoney.com. |
| 1:00.8 | Today, we are talking to George, who joins us from California. |
| 1:05.4 | Hello, George. How are you? |
| 1:07.4 | I'm doing well. Thank you guys for having me on. |
| 1:09.7 | Of course. What can we do for you? Yeah. So I am |
| 1:13.7 | relatively new in my job. I have been in medical training for a long time and feel very behind with |
| 1:20.7 | financial planning. So get a lot of advice from different people, but I'm not sure that it applies |
| 1:27.2 | too well for me and was hoping to get an adult in the room and get some help. Well, we don't have adults, but Mark and I are definitely here to help you. So in your new job, how much do you earn? About $300,000. Okay. And so you've been training a long time. This is very, people in the medical field, man, this is so very consistent. You know, it's like I've spent all this time going to school, doing residence, doing this, doing that. And then all of a sudden you're making real money. So what else is going on in your life, George? First of all, how old are you? I'm 34. |
| 2:00.3 | Okay. And are you partnered, married? Single. |
| 2:04.0 | Single. Single making 300 grand. Let's see if he has any debt mark and then we can set him up. |
| 2:08.6 | Did you acquire debt getting all that training? Only for medical school. I got a scholarship, |
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