"You Have An Absolute Emergency On Your Hands"
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4.5 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
| 0:04.3 | Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.4 | I've been following the plan for quite a while. |
| 0:09.9 | I got rid of my car. |
| 0:11.1 | I paid down on my debt. |
| 0:12.2 | The only two things I had left are my student loan debt and my mortgage. |
| 0:17.0 | Awesome. |
| 0:17.3 | My mortgage, I owe $98,000 on. |
| 0:19.6 | And unfortunately, on my student loans, I owe today $142,000. |
| 0:25.5 | Oof. |
| 0:26.3 | Last Wednesday, I learned that my position at my job is going to be eliminated, and I will be without a job on February 1st or on second. |
| 0:37.6 | And I am kind of freaked out. |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.4 | I feel like... |
| 0:43.1 | You have a right to be. |
| 0:44.0 | I don't have... |
| 0:45.3 | I only have about 25 and 401K. |
| 0:49.5 | And obviously I'd want to get that student loan debt out of the way. |
| 0:54.6 | But with my separation, I'll get a seventh package, but it's only going to be about $16,000, and that's before taxes. |
| 1:03.7 | So I am not sure. |
| 1:05.9 | So that floats you three months? |
| 1:08.4 | What do you think? |
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