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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If OP is hoping to marry rich by being with a doctor. Don't bother.

Was a fool to marry my doctor without checking out his finances. After marriage found out he had six figure debt. Wiped out my savings paying it down. His friend was asked by his accountant friend how he slept at night with all that debt. We squeaked by for many years living in an tiny apartment and I put him on a strict budget.

While my friend who married the hedge fund partner has two houses a 24/7 nanny and goes to galas. [/quote]

I met my DH when he was in med school. It was a long journey but he now earns $1m+ as a specialized surgeon. I was the breadwinner for over a decade. It took a while to pay off our student loans but we are now saving and investing. By the time we are 40, we hope to have a few million saved.[/quote]

I'm now 35 and there is no way we're going to have a few million saved by 40. We're still paying down the remainder student loan debt.I actually don't appreciate you bragging about your "specialized surgeon" because it perpetuates the fantasy doctors are "rich" when most of them aren't and has tons of debt, and goodness knows we get enough vitriol about it. I had a plumber come into our one bedroom apartment and you could see he could not fanthom why we were living there, and he tried to ask us diplomatically what the hell we were doing. So please stuff it, and do your DH a favor and not perpetuate the "rich doctor" stereotype.[/quote]

There is no way this story is real. I can't imagine that one could get the expertise to command this salary in your early to mid thirties (as just finishing a residency will take you to your early thirties), and there aren't many medical specialties that pay this much (maybe high end plastic surgery or a high volume CT surgeon) and again, even for the ones that do, you're not getting that salary fresh out of training, which would have to happen for you to have "a few million" saved by age 40. This is 100 percent fabrication. [/quote]

I'm not PP, but ortho spine (7 years) or neurosurgery (6 years) could easily accomplish this.

Med school grad at 25/26, means spine surgeon at 31-33, and those guys BANK.[/quote]

Pp here. DH graduated med school at 25, finished residency at age 30 and spine fellowship at 31. He did not break a million right out of fellowship but did a couple years out. And I said I was the breadwinner for over a decade. Half or more of our current savings are from my earnings, not DH. We have a little over $1 million in net worth now. Hope to save rapidly over next few years. Maybe we will only have $2m saved by 40 and not a few. I do think we can save a few though.[/quote]

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