Hi All, What is an appropriate amount of funds to keep in a safe investment (HYSA, Money Market) if you have FIRED? Enough for 6 months, 1 year, 2+ years of annual expenses? The rest of my savings are in riskier investments - index funds and individual stocks, so I'd like to keep enough aside to protect against SORR. The other approach would be to keep limited funds in HYSA and invest most but in a less riskier portfolio. Am I thinking about this the right way? TIA!

Our firm is paying an AI automation vendor $300k a year to replace the exact middle-office reporting team that I currently manage. Management keeps telling us our jobs are safe, but they also asked me to document every single step of our validation process for the software integration team. They aren't offering any retention packages or severance guarantees, just vague promises about pivoting to client-facing roles. How do you negotiate a safety net or a exit bonus in this scenario?

After this conference for nursing home administration required CEUs. I’m getting sick of these companies wanting all this experience or I go into a dumpster fire of a building that has so many health violations that my license would be screwed. I’m trying to pursue something still in healthcare but I’m not sure what I can do. Im not sure realistically what I could do that I could transition my skills to do. But something that pays well without the headaches of nursing homes.

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Anyone have any suggestions on how to secure a clinical site? I am located in Baltimore, MD. If anyone has any openings or what steps I should take, please let me know. I am trying to enter into the sterile processing tech field. I am open to working hospitals, surgery centers, healthcare staffing agencies, etc. I have been getting ghosted, even though I am willing to take unpaid/volunteer positions.

Never accept a toxic environment 🫡 (shoutout public accounting lol) The road out of a bad situation will be long and not easy but anything worth having doesn’t come easy. I applied to 60 jobs as a Big 4 auditor with the CPA and only got ONE hit but it was all I needed. It felt like having two separate jobs but the results were so worth it 😭

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I have an opportunity to be CFO/controller of a $4M EBITDA facility services business. It’s growing, the owner is looking to sell in 3-5 years, and I’m currently negotiating equity. Base comp is break even, no substantial bonus expected. I’m struggling between this opportunity and remaining in IB. How would you assess the risk/reward trade off here?