• Finances

    Please Don’t Withdraw Your 401k

    This new post comes from a real story I heard this past week at work.  As many know, work (especially in the therapy gym) is the common place for all sorts of different stories, understandings, thoughts, conspiracies, and beliefs to be shared freely.  Most people don’t want to hear your political, religious, or financial advice but work gives people a nice buffer to express freely without as much kickback, especially if you are the customer. This holds even more truth in the healthcare field, especially when you spend 10+ hours with one patient by the end of their POC as we do in PT frequently.  Although I do enjoy hearing…

  • Finances

    Simplifying The CARES Act: What Should I Do With My Check?

    The CARES Act The CARES act or Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security act is a federal law that in part directs the use of the 2 trillion dollars of funding for COVID-19 relief aid. For the purposes of this article, we are going to focus primarily on the stimulus checks or economic impact payment.   These stimulus checks continue to be the sources of confusion amongst conversations, so I think before we talk about how to use it, we need to clarify some of the many questions surrounding it. What is it? The stimulus check is money that is considered a 2020 tax credit that citizens are being given if…