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Hey, Colin. Welcome to the show. Hi, thank you. I'm trying to figure out what I need to do.

I am 21 years old. I am $42,000 in debt. And I just got laid off two weeks ago.

And I'm in a bind kind of thing. I am borrowing money from my aunt-uncle, but I don't have, I don't have any payments until about three weeks from now.

Wow. Okay. What's your living situation? Are you renting? Are you living with family? I am living with my aunt-uncle right now. They are helping me out. But one of the

rules is with me living with them. I'm getting my GED. I did drop out of high school. Before I got

laid off, I was making a crap load of money for my age. My sister always told me to listen to y'all.

She told me to give y'all a call to help me

figure it out. That's where most of my debts coming from is from cars. Just wasn't spending the

money wisely. How much were you making? I was making from 1,800 to 2,500 a week. Okay. Okay. And what kind of work were you doing? I was an oiler. I worked on

the road. I worked in Kansas, New Mexico. I maintained heavy equipment. So are you trying to get

back into that same field, or are you looking to do something else? I'm pretty religious in my life,

and I don't necessarily what I've learned over time

is money is not worth it to me,

and actually I want to become a firefighter.

I've always wanted to be one.

Okay.

I want to go to school, and I want to try to work on that.

And I know where I'm at in Texas,

there's a program that pays for you to become a

firefighter, but they only accept like a thousand people, and it's at the end of September.

Okay, so that's a long ways.

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