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A Lucrative Summer Internship Enabled This PhD Student to Max Out Her IRA
Personal Finance for PhDs
English - October 19, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutes - 56.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsCourses Education Business Investing debt money phd budget frugality graduateschool investing personalfinance postdoc Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Emily interviews an anonymous member of the Personal Finance for PhDs Community and alum of The Wealthy PhD. Anonymous did a summer internship at Google Research, which helped her evaluate whether she wants to pursue a career in academia or industry and set her up well for an industry career. The internship also paid her in three months approximately what she makes in an entire year on her grad student stipend. Anonymous shares her tips for applying to Google's summer internship program and convincing your PhD advisor to let you do the program. The sudden but temporary increase in Anonymous's income spurred her to participate in The Wealthy PhD, through which she opened and maxed out an IRA, optimized her financial accounts, and started tracking and budgeting her expenses.