When I graduated from university, I joined the growing mass of
adults in debt who have to pay back their student loans. But unlike many, I was determined to get out
of debt as soon as I could. An overseas
teaching job helped with that, and I was fortunate enough to pay back more than
$20K in two years. Now that was an
incredible feat, and when I told another ALT (assistant language teacher) about
it, she expressed her jealousy in the most direct manner she could. She said, "I hate you for that." How frustrating. I was rewarded for my hard work with a blunt,
ignorant statement. She had the same job
as me and was making the same amount of money, so she had every opportunity to
do what I did.
What that person was missing was self-discipline.
