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Serious woman moment, taking 50k in student loan debt (so far) to keep eating out and not decrease spending

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Mel, 22, San Antonio TX

Personal Life:

  • Lives with her boyfriend, splits rent/utilities

  • Wants to work govt job for student loan forgiveness? Nothing specific

  • Boyfriend

    • Manager at Lackland Air Force Base - timestamp

      • Something about videography?
    • He's planning on going back to school, got a degree in fine arts/photography wants to do cloud computing

Career:

  • Personal Shopper

    • HEB

    • 25 hours?

    • 300 a week, depends on hours worked

  • Grad Student

    • Got undergrad in Marketing last May

    • MBA

    • Taking out debt, took out debt for undergrad as well

    • 12'000 a year tuition

    • "Why aren't you cashflowing it?" timestamp

    • Planning to be done next May

  • Talent Acquisition at Ford "Social Media Coop" (?)

    • Remote work

    • 20 hours a week?

    • 850 - 900 twice a month

    • "Why is this Ford position not a full time position for you" timestamp

      • Started 4 months ago, thinks it is just a trial? Had it as a part time because she wasn't certain about how demanding grad school would be
  • Total income $3000 after taxes

Expenses/Debts

  • Loan ($2069 remaining)

    • Credit card consolidation

    • Some part of debt was initially because she wanted a Macbook for school

    • $90 monthly payments

    • "26 payments to go"

    • More than 10% interest

  • "This past semester I took out $20'000" timestamp

    • Her excuses :marseyxd:

    • Clarifies that this is for the whole year? More of her classes are in the evenings and shes worried they might cut into her HEB job

    • On top of existing 36'386 timestamp

      • incredible gymnastics on these rationalizations timestamp
    • All Federal

    • thinking about a PhD

      • Would be done in 2026/2027ish?
  • LOTS of eating out timestamp

    • "I didn't realize how bad it was"
  • Explanation of how she budgets :marseywomanmoment: timestamp

  • Imprint HEB Card (Card 1):

    • "You get 5% cashback"

    • Pays it off, lots of subway purchases on there

    • "Favored Subway"

      • Some sort of regional doordash that's more expensive?
  • Synchrony Card American Eagle? (Card 2) (not sure I heard this right):

    • $300 credit limit

    • $29 late fee

    • 30% interest on this card, "I got it a long time ago"

  • Ikea Furniture Plan?

    • 0% financed apartment furniture

    • 546 remaining, her and her boyfriend split it, paid 300 on it last month,

    • minimum payment 37

  • 2018 F-150 truck

    • parents pay for it, it's in their name and they pay insurance for it

Savings:

  • $102 in her checking ($708 on hold?)

    • "I try to leave myself with at least 150 a week, that's my budget" timestamp
  • Hasn't started a 401k, one of her jobs offers it with matching but she hasn't signed up :marseywomanmoment2:

SHE THOUGHT HER STUDENT LOANS WERE ZERO PERCENT FOREVER :marseyxd:

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Wait does she already have the MBA or is that the masters degree she's working on

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That's the masters she's working on

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