<prompt> Human: So here is the deal. I am a young attorney in a small town in middle America. Think Mayberry. I run my own practice in an office sharing arrangement with two older attorneys. This is my first full year practicing so it has been slow but things are picking up and I am starting to become busy. I expect to make 40k this year like I said, new at this, and should be looking at about a 15-20 increase in my income over the next several years, until I cap out at about 100k. My wife makes 40k a year as well, and her income will stay nearly the same. We own two cars outright both in good shape and reliable and have a mortgage 70k with about 430 a month total payments. We currently have no children but want to in the upcoming years.Here is where it all goes to hell. When I was in undergrad I made some HORRIBLE financial decisions, and even though I had a partial scholarship for law school I have 160k in student loan debt. Thankfully 130k of this is in IBRd loans and the other 30k is in private loans. Accordingly, I pay about 450 a month in loan payments currently. I feel like the student debt is suffocating me all the time and it is driving me nuts. I am currently considering taking a couple of non-legal jobs where I would get paid 100k a year right now, but it would require a move, and there would be no guarantee my wife would be able to get a good job. So at best I could be making 60k more a year to pay down loans, but at worst it could be only 20k a year. My wife and I have adopted the Dave Ramsey line live like no one else now so you can live like no one else tomorrow so we have cut nearly all the non-essentials out I bike to work most days, we eat out once every two weeks at a Mexican joint in town, we have high speed internet and smart phones still but thats it.Any advice on staying v. going would be greatly appreciated. Knowing we are making it is okay. I just hate dealing with the guilt of damaging us so badly financially years before we met and leaving seems to be a way to fix that.  <response>: So unless Im missing something, you and your wife can pay over 30k a year against loans with your current incomeexpenses? With you expecting significant increases in salary which mean you could put nearly 5k a year more for each of the next few years?Another thing to consider is what you want to be doing 10 or 20 or 30 years from now. Does sacrificing your current career to take a non-legal job hurt that? 