A pharmacist shares how she paid off $286,000 in student loans by doubling her income through a new job and side work. The strategy prioritizes earning more over cutting expenses to tackle medical debt fast.
So I'm a pharmacist about seven years out of school now, and I live in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside of D.C.
So tell the audience what we're celebrating today.
So I just paid off $286,000 in student loans.
Holy crap. $286,000 for pharmacy school? You did most of this quite recently.
The bulk of the payoff was 215 in about a year and a half.
215 in a year and a half sounds kind of impossible. How did you do that?
Going from my previous job to the one I have now was about a 50k difference in pay. And then working retail evenings and weekends on the side was really the biggest factor because I made up a big chunk of that doing the CBS work, too. So that was that was really helpful for me.
So the way you did this was by doubling your income?
Yeah, it's definitely doable.
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