Help! My Student Loans Are Killing Me
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Drowning in student loans can make life difficult when you're trying to make it in the real world. That's the situation with Linda from the Bay Area, who desperately wants to buy a house and start a family.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Call of the Week and this is the chance that I get to talk to you and hear what's on your mind, answer your questions. and I'm just not some fly-by-night author media chick. |
| 0:17.2 | You know, I got some street cred, I'm a CFP, a certified financial planner. |
| 0:21.7 | I haven't been in practice for a long time but I stay |
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| 0:29.0 | on the air and join us just send us an email. It's Ask Jill at Jill on money.com. Ask Jill at Jill on |
| 0:36.8 | money. Or when you go to the website Jill on money.com you can just click the |
| 0:42.2 | contact us button right from there very easy to do. |
| 0:46.0 | Okay first and foremost we must talk to our friend Linda because what she did in her |
| 0:52.2 | subject line of her email was help Jill in all |
| 0:55.8 | caps Linda I'm hearing the anxiety what is going on how can I help you? |
| 1:16.7 | Yeah so What is going on? How can I help you? Yeah, so I am in my mid-30s. I am a professional and I live in the bay Area and it's just been incredibly expensive to live out here. I have I put myself through my undergrad and also a graduate school program so as you can |
| 1:21.8 | imagine I have a lot of student loans and you |
| 1:25.2 | know I would like to be financially secure and not have to worry about money in the |
| 1:32.0 | you know in the, you know, in the future. And so in my 30s now I'm really just beginning |
| 1:36.8 | to focus on getting to that point. But you know, there's a lot of things along the way, like I have |
| 1:42.0 | a map of student loan debt and I also |
| 1:44.6 | want to buy a house and start a family and so I just don't really know I guess like in what order I should be doing |
| 1:52.4 | and should I put off my dream of owning my own house and starting that family for another five to ten years? |
| 2:00.0 | Will I ever be able to do it? |
| 2:03.0 | Dude, dude, dude, slow down, calm down, I gotta talk you off the ledge, come on. |
| 2:09.7 | First of all, you're not gonna delay having children because of money. You're not going to do that because |
| 2:14.1 | that's just a weird thing and it won't work because you know that biological clock is it you can't |
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