7 Apartment Therapy Readers Reveal How the Student Loan Pause Changed Their Lives

When I landed my first job after earning my bachelor’s degree, I was making around $36,000 per year. Things were tight, to say the least, and making ends meet became even more difficult once payments for my student loans kicked in. My payments started at around $256 per month. That was also the year when my credit card debt began to pile on as I struggled to pay for, well, living life.