Unfortunately, you can’t just shoot your current loan servicer an email saying:
Let’s get this out the way:
I type in Times New Roman 16pt font because I get dizzy reading small print. My professors can’t force me to use 12pt font size now. I’m sticking it to the man.
There.
So now I have reached the part of the blog in which I actually discuss the subject at hand --- my stupid student loan debt.
I have a passion for self-sabotaging.
I want to interject
that I have a five-figure debt with a combined six- figure income. I understand
this blog is not going to be relevant to many. My circumstance is different,
and my journey may not be relatable. I understand that, and I do not want to
lead anyone to believing I am paying off $64,000 of debt with a $10,000 income within
2 months.
So...
Starting this process seemed a
lot less daunting than it has turned out to be. Charting and graphing the
numbers made me feel a bit more in control of the issue, and having the guts to
even look at the student loan data base was a huge feat. The final product was
a terrifying spreadsheet of numbers that screamed, “Wow! You owe a lot of money!”.
It is not discouraging, but it is not something I can take lightly. At all.
The issue with my debt is that I’ve been in school since 2009.
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| This is a picture of a mess. This is my life. Photo by Ricardo Viana on Unsplash |
That’s 11 years.
I've decided to start a blog because I want to document my student loan journey. When I post things online, they stick around for a very long time. Thank you, Facebook. Anyhow, my decision to start this blog was thought out for a long time, but I did not anticipate the fear of kicking it off. I was not nervous about writing or my niche, but I had a fear that my content wasn’t…necessary.
