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Money talks || Cures for a lean purse I
Hey people! Hope you’ve been well since our last post? In the debut money talks post, I promised to share some tips on savings and investment over the next few weeks. Most of the principles I’ll be sharing are gotten from the time-trusted book, The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason. Babylon is said to have been the wealthiest nation in its time, with lots of wealthy persons inhabiting it. It is also home to one of the seven wonders of the world, the hanging gardens of Babylon. Although I’ve been guided by most of these principles way before I read the book, everything was really broken down…
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Lessons from housejob
I’ve finally completed my housejob year. 🥳🥳 When I left Lagos to Ondo last year, it seemed like a journey so far away but as with everything in life, it all comes to an end at some point. At the start of 2018, I never would have thought that I’d find myself living outside of Lagos for a year. But that’s exactly what happened! And in retrospect, I’m glad that I didn’t accept the offer to move back to LUTH when I got the employment text then. This is not to say I never nursed the idea of staying back, or even wished I could be in Lagos even when…
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Housejob Chronicles|| Rounding up Medicine
4 of 4!!! Can you palpate my excitement through this post? You should be able to. I’m officially done with Housejob; no longer a house officer, now a medical officer. 😁😁 #Justlikeyesterday I’ve documented the journey so far here on the blog. I’d share a post on my overall experience and lessons throughout this year in a different post, shortly after this. Internal medicine is a sub-speciality of medicine which deals with the diagnosis, medical treatment and care of adults. In medical school, medicine was actually my best posting. Not in terms of grades or ‘stuff’, but because things there seemed a bit more straightforward than other departments. You could…
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Money Talks || Why you shouldn’t save in a traditional piggybank.
Hey there! Do you save part of your income? How do you do that? Do you save in a traditional piggybank? Whatever your answers might be, just read on, I have gist for you. Before getting into the post proper, I’ll be sharing some backstory about how this idea came to be. Stay with me. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been struggling with whether or not to delve into writing about personal finance. The idea was particularly inspired by a message I received from an old classmate reminding me of when I helped her save money back in secondary school. I had contemplated starting this series a while back,…
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Sonder – The profound awareness that everyone has a story, as complex as yours.
One sunny Sunday afternoon, while I was on call duty at the accidents and emergencies department at my workplace, an officer came in and mentioned that he had brought a patient (Mrs A) who was involved in an accident. I thought it was probably a fracture or something of that nature. I was with other patients, so I couldn’t go and attend to them. The casualty officer on duty was available so he went to see. Upon reviewing, he certified Mrs A dead. I was shocked to hear that because I hadn’t really expected it. The backstory (history) of Mrs A even made me more shocked – she had been…
