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Elizabeth Ayoola

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5640 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

And one more thing I will add, I'm not a medical student.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

I don't know exactly how it works.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

But one thing that I know has worked for me throughout my career is no matter how big or small the opportunity was, focusing on skill development and looking for opportunities in whatever place I'm working to develop those skills.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

So I know the listener was worried about maybe not getting as good opportunities in suburban areas and maybe not being able to build as many skill sets.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

But wherever you are, I think it's important to just make the most of what opportunities you have there to build your skills.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

So I actually did that during the early stages of my career in the U.S.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

I had moved from London.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

I only moved with, I believe it was $6,000.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

That's all I had to my name.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

I was doing an internship at the time that was paying me $8 an hour.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

And I didn't want to end up, you know, in a serious financial hole.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

So one of the things that I did is I moved into a room.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

I rented a room in a house with my son to start with.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

So I was able to maintain a small emergency fund and also continue to save until my income increased enough to where I was comfortable living on my own.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

Sometimes you have to make those short-term sacrifices.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

It wasn't fun living with other people, especially coming from London where I was living alone.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

But having financial security at the time was more important to me.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

Pepper got something to say too.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

Hey, Pepper girl.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
How to Balance Career Opportunity and Cost of Living (Plus: ChatGPT Ads Could Change How You Spend)

I have experienced that in two cities now, having to cut back on things to live in an expensive city.