Dr. Emily Roberts is a personal finance educator specializing in early-career PhDs. Through her business, Personal Finance for PhDs, she equips graduate students, postdocs, and PhDs with Real Jobs to make the most of their money. She spoke to us about launching a personal finance

Updated May 1, 2021 Did you parents, or other adults in your life, have some rules of money they lived by? Or did they even talk about money? All of the adults in my life had different incomes, but they all operated under the same

Updated April 1, 2024 Imagine if you could make 100,000 a year. That’s 8,333 per month. 1,923 per week. When I first broke the 100k mark, it was huge! I don’t know why breaking six figures was so symbolic for me. Maybe it was because

One of the things that really messes with PhDs as they’re coming to the end of their degrees is that the academic job market is great at keeping people in perpetual limbo. The year-long job cycle means that you spend months and months waiting on

Updated July 22, 2020 I always thought being rich meant having a baloney sandwich on white bread. Let me explain. When I was a kid, we didn’t have much. My dad worked as a maintenance man to support a family of five and my mom

Updated Jan. 18, 2023 When I think about how to build wealth, I remember the day I had to hock my TV for food. I was an undergraduate. It was a little color one with a VCR built in (I’m dating myself here). I cradled