Personal Finance Blogger Attempts to Pay Off $160,000 in Student Loan Debt in One Year Today’s college graduates are almost guaranteed to leave college with two things: a diploma and a ton of student loan debt. But not all debt is created equal. After going to college and graduate school for a combined 14 years,…
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My Top 10 Favorite Personal Finance Posts: June 2011
10. So Over Debt – I’m Done With My Job – I think we’ve all been there before. Sick of our jobs to the point of disgust. Hang in there! 9. Squirrelers – First Job Lessons Learned – I’m a sucker for awful “first jobs in high school” type stories. Reminds me of my lovely…
Help Me Work My Way out of 200k In Student Loan Debt in Just One year
Time to get ambitious. Perhaps even crazy. It’s the Debtpayer Challenge. The BackStory As of today, my wife and I have $161,431.05 in student loan debt. We used to have about $200,000 so we’ve made some progress in paying off our student loan debt. The problem is, it’s not enough. Although we are lucky to…
10 Musings on Time Management, Minimalism, and Clarity
The following is a journal like approach consisting of several mini posts on time management, minimalism, and clarity. Mini Post #1: Losing Track of Time: It happens to me all the time. I sit down to watch “just a few minutes of television,” or to ” check my email for just a few moments.”…
