Although most of us enjoy practising medicine we might not wish to allocate 50-60 hours of our lives every week on a single endeavour. Financial independence and retiring early FI(RE) is an imperative concept to understand to improve our life work balance.Having a sound financial knowledge is crucial to living a fulfilling life. Once we understand key fundamental ideas, this area of our lives can be automated.In this finance guide we'll discuss: -how specialty choice, geographical location and investing in ourselves maximises career income-calculating whether it's worthwhile delaying career progression to full time locum-key side hustles such as self-publishing, matched betting and more-my 250,000+ journey in 7 years-key concepts of investing and financial independence +/- retiring early FI(RE)Dr Rory Chan is currently a ST6 registrar in respiratory medicine pursuing a MD degree in airways disease in Scotland. He created a net worth of 250,000 in 7 years and enjoys creating sources of passive income.