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Why Worry About Student Loans?

at EDT by Joshua Holt

“Dr. Adrienne Colman is living her best life, student loans be damned,” reports Alicia Adamczyk.

“It doesn’t make me feel great that I have [$230,000 in] student loan debt, but I don’t let it hinder me in the way that I live my life,” Colman said. “I’d rather live my life than throw thousands of dollars into trying to pay this debt off.”

While she does have a $100,000 income, “she also has around $2,600 in credit card debt, mostly from shopping for clothes and accessories, and she is paying off around $17,000 for her 2017 Mazda CX-5.”

About FIREwire

Joshua Holt is the founder of FIREwire, a site that aggregates personal finance, investing and financial independence stories. He is also the creator of Biglaw Investor.

Joshua spent more than a decade as a corporate lawyer in New York City representing sovereign nations and private equity clients in mergers & acquisitions.

He earned degrees from the University of Arkansas and Boston College, while also spending a year at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He lives in Austin with his wife and son.

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