{"id":12172,"date":"2016-02-05T20:51:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T20:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arrivity.com\/?p=12172"},"modified":"2023-06-13T07:01:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T07:01:12","slug":"aspiring-school-counselor-struggles-with-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arrivity.com\/aspiring-school-counselor-struggles-with-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspiring School Counselor Struggles with Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By George Erb &#8211; <em>Special to The Seattle Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like many young adults, Tacoma graduate student Taylor Reyes is pursuing her dreams of a career and a home while college debt piles up around her.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s worried whether she can earn enough money as a school counselor to buy a house and pay off student loans that could hit $50,000 by the time she graduates in May.&nbsp;\u201cI had felt so weighed down by these things,\u201d the 25-year-old Fircrest resident said.<\/p>\n<p>But two volunteer financial planners showed Reyes that her ambitions can become reality. They also gave Reyes a plan for starting her career, managing her student loans and owning a home. Reyes could achieve all of those things by the time she\u2019s 30.<\/p>\n<p>Her story is also a case study of how young people can navigate the treacherous path from school to career and homeownership without getting swamped by debt.<\/p>\n<p>The Puget Sound Chapter of the Financial Planning Association voluntarily connected Reyes with two pro bono advisers at Blue Canoe Financial Planning in Seattle.&nbsp;They were reassuring about Reyes\u2019 financial condition.&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s generally good, given that she knows where she wants to go,\u201d said Nancy Dienes, a registered financial adviser and Blue Canoe\u2019s CEO. \u201cShe\u2019s taken some risks, but it\u2019s reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dienes and her colleague, financial planner Holly Davis, developed a road map for Reyes that has tips for other young adults in similar circumstances&#8230;..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/aspiring-school-counselor-struggles-with-debt-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for complete story on the Seattle Times website<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By George Erb &#8211; Special to The Seattle Times &#8220;Like many young adults, Tacoma graduate student Taylor Reyes is pursuing her dreams of a career and a home while college debt piles up around her. She\u2019s worried whether she can earn enough money as a school counselor to buy a house and pay off student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arrivity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arrivity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arrivity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arrivity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arrivity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12172"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/arrivity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13869,"href":"https:\/\/arrivity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172\/revisions\/13869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arrivity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arrivity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arrivity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arrivity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}