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Ali sets a goal of an extra £3,000 a month so he could work three days a week as a doctor

story · status: told 7× · last event: retold (2025-11-17) · owner: Ali

Told alongside: Ali reads Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek at 17, and it sets him on the path to financial freedom · SixMed, Ali's medical school admissions courses (2012) · Ali agrees he will not be working full-time as a doctor in 15 to 30 years (2019) · Ali asks doctors whether they would still practise medicine if they won the lottery

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2020-07-03 told High US pay is not a motivation for Ali: medicine is not how he wants to make money; he wants to earn on the side from other things and do medicine for fun, his goal since his first year of medical school. I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update 00:19:02
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) retold Ali still wants to be a doctor, but part-time: three days a week would be really fun, while doing anything five to seven days a week risks burnout and stress. How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber 00:10:31
2024-04-23 retold While working as a doctor, what Ali wanted from financial freedom was the ability to go part-time: the happiest doctors he knew worked three days a week rather than six. My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom 00:01:42
2024-07-29 retold Ali then set his focus on getting through medical school and enjoying it while building businesses on the side, so that a couple of grand a month would let him do medicine for fun rather than for the money. Why some medical students drop out 00:00:29
2025-07-18 retold Ali's goal became £3,000 a month: after tax about £2,000 of extra disposable income, which would double his disposable income and let him work three or four days a week as a doctor. (hedged) I’m Starting a New Series About Financial & Time Freedom 00:11:14
2025-09-02 (happened 2012) retold At 18, seeing that the happiest doctors he knew worked part-time, three days a week, Ali calculated that £3,000 a month of extra income would let him work three days a week as a doctor; this started his journey to financial freedom. My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom 00:06:07
2025-11-17 retold Seeing that most doctors would rather not work full-time and only lacked the money, Ali decided to start a business on the side, to have the option of cutting medicine to about three days a week. This is the exact moment that changed my life 00:00:29

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