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- Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:55 am
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: How Is Your Job Being Impacted By The Current Crisis?
- Replies: 505
- Views: 68900
Re: How Is Your Job Being Impacted By The Current Crisis?
I'm a cancer research scientist working for a major hospital, funded by NIH. All of us scientists not working on coronavirus have been forced to work from home. Still getting paid off current grants for now, but not sure how long it will last. The only thing we can do from home really is write grant proposals for new work once all this is over. Craziest thing is the hospital has been begging all the research labs for kits and reagents for COVID-19 testing because they are so scarce and hard to get from suppliers. Wife is a nurse manager in cardiac intensive care and one of her floors just got converted to a COVID-19 unit because they don't have enough capacity elsewhere, so I am understandably worried. All her staff nurses are also worried....
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 1:23 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Weddings - The good? The bad?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5473
Re: Weddings - The good? The bad?
We got married about a month ago and second to everyone who said pick one or two important things to spend money on and skimp on the rest, no one will remember all the little details. Save your planning time and sanity picking napkin colors let the venue do whatever. We prioritized good food buffet and alcohol (married at a brewery), super casual no assigned seating, 80ish people who all loved the food and beer. Also, do a first look before the wedding, take pictures before the guests arrive and then no one has to wait around hours after the ceremony for things to start. Don't try to plan the perfect wedding, something will always come up that you will laugh about later. We got married on a mostly covered rooftop, ceremony outside uncovered...
- Sat Sep 28, 2019 6:44 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: stock investing for house downpayment
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1749
Re: stock investing for house downpayment
Thank you, it helps to talk this out. I'm leaning towards selling and switching to fixed income, I will shop around for CDs and so forth.
- Sat Sep 28, 2019 8:07 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: stock investing for house downpayment
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1749
stock investing for house downpayment
I recently inherited Disney stock, about $16,000 in a brokerage account that I would like to use toward a house down payment in 5-6 years. Is this timeframe short enough that I should I sell this and park it in a high yield savings account until needed to not lose value? Are there better safe options, maybe CDs? Or keep in stocks and at least switch it over to a total stock index fund for a few more years before selling?