<prompt> Human: Hey everyone, mid-2016 I started taking my personal finances more seriously. In the past 6 months Ive paid off around 5,000 in credit card debt, I have 2,000 left should be paid off by May. Once thats out of the way Im going to start attack my student loan debt which looks something like this:Private - 65,000 30 yearsFederal - 30,000 25 yearsParent Plus - 8,000 10 yearsIm planning to attack them in that order and keeping them separated though I may consolidate the private loans as my reduced interest period is ending.My question to you is would it make sense for me to build up a healthy emergency fund first?Right now I have 6,500 in a savings account, and an extra 3,000 in my checking it could be moved to the savings, but Im moving it over slowly. If I lost my job tomorrow my monthly expenses could be cut down to 3,000 1,750 is rent so my target savings for my emergency fund is 18,000. I should be able to put between 1,400 and 2,000 per month into the emergency fund so I think before the end of 2017 I would be able to support 6 months of expenses.It will likely take me 5 years to fully pay off my student debt so I dont know if it really makes sense having a partial emergency fund available for that many years, especially since I will most likely be moving across the country in 3 or 4 years.Thanks in advance for the input!  <response>: You may find these links helpful:- Student Loans wiki page- How to handle - Whats the best way to pay down my debt?I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subredditmessagecompose?torpersonalfinance if you have any questions or concerns. 