Elizabeth Ayoola
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And one more thing I will add, I'm not a medical student.
I don't know exactly how it works.
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.
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.
But wherever you are, I think it's important to just make the most of what opportunities you have there to build your skills.
So I actually did that during the early stages of my career in the U.S.
I had moved from London.
I only moved with, I believe it was $6,000.
That's all I had to my name.
I was doing an internship at the time that was paying me $8 an hour.
And I didn't want to end up, you know, in a serious financial hole.
So one of the things that I did is I moved into a room.
I rented a room in a house with my son to start with.
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.
Sometimes you have to make those short-term sacrifices.
It wasn't fun living with other people, especially coming from London where I was living alone.
But having financial security at the time was more important to me.
Pepper got something to say too.
Hey, Pepper girl.
I have experienced that in two cities now, having to cut back on things to live in an expensive city.