<prompt> Human: Hi everyone,Long time lurker and was 48k in student debt last December. Made a commitment last year to get out of debt. First, off I went the opposite direction and took a 3,500 digital marketing course. That allowed me though to land a higher paying job as a marketing manager for a professional services firm. I already had an emergency fund of 5k and my new job didnt let us get in the 401k plan until a year in since has been changed. I put everything I made into my loans, besides rent utility, cheap food and didnt buy anything like new clothes or luxury items. I then got a gig doing private security at events like Pax East, Comic Con, Apple and at hospitals that paid any where from 20-30hr. Would do these sporadically for anywhere from 10-40 extra hrs a week and huck it am my loans. I also signed up for Rover.com and took care of about 40 different types of dogs. The final push is when I started driving Uber. I work in Boston right next to a college so after work it would often be surging and Id drive for hours after work. I got addicted and would try to bring in an extra 500-800 week driving. Lots of caffeine and not going out on weekends. Kept track of mileage, driving expenses and expected taxes. I also made and extra 1600 referring four driversI was making quick headway, but was getting really burnt out. I would occasionally take a weekend off to recharge and then get back at it I would fantasize about hitting a scratch ticket for the last 10k or a gift from a long lost relative. Then fate intervened. At my old job we had a pension program I never paid attention to because they said it was going away. Well one day I get a call from my old CFO the plan was frozen and I was being paid out a little over 10k. I could either take it as cash and pay 3k in taxes fines, or roll it over. I was extremely tempted to take it and run, but after talking to my CPA coworkers, decided to suck it up and roll it over into an IRA at Wealthfront. I drove a shit ton of uber the last two months, put my whole work bonus and all my Rover funds towards the last 10k. I was down to 3k last night and used 3gs from my emergency fund to finish it off. It was a very long process, but Im glad Im done. Now have to replenish the emergency fund and save up for taxes saved a bunch, but got greedy towards the end putting it all at the loan. Im done and am looking forward to having more free time for fun, learning more skills to get a better job and getting back into fitness. I also made my first post loans splurge purchase..new Retro Jordan 9s..dont know why I wanted them, but I did. Edit: thank you to everyone for their kind words. Im done replying for a while, please search the thread if you have questions, I think I answered most of them somewhere. Have a great day and lets go Pats!  <response>: My friend, moneys not hard to come by if moneys all youre after. 