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Feeling like I made awful decision(s) with school and student loans, wondering if anyone’s in a similar boat and/or has any related advice. I graduated in 2021 with my masters degree in social work and am now working doing individual therapy with folks. My pay is pretty low and it’s difficult to know an average – it fluctuates week by week depending on cancellations/etc (paid per session, not hourly). My student loans are $106,519. It doesn’t feel like something I could realistically ever pay off, especially once the interest starts adding on. I don’t make that much and the cost of living just keeps going up and up and up. I’m just feeling so depressed and stressed and feeling like I shouldn’t have even gone to school. It feels insurmountable and I don’t even make that much money and my job is so stressful. I just want to be living…


Feeling like I made awful decision(s) with school and student loans, wondering if anyone’s in a similar boat and/or has any related advice. I graduated in 2021 with my masters degree in social work and am now working doing individual therapy with folks. My pay is pretty low and it’s difficult to know an average – it fluctuates week by week depending on cancellations/etc (paid per session, not hourly). My student loans are $106,519. It doesn’t feel like something I could realistically ever pay off, especially once the interest starts adding on. I don’t make that much and the cost of living just keeps going up and up and up. I’m just feeling so depressed and stressed and feeling like I shouldn’t have even gone to school. It feels insurmountable and I don’t even make that much money and my job is so stressful. I just want to be living in the woods homesteading growing vegetables and playing music and spending time with loved ones. I just wake up every morning dreading my work day, dreading the city, and pretty much just dreading my life. I’m 29 and feel like my life is already pretty much over. At least when I was in school there was always the hope of what could come after, but I didn’t know it would be like this…

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