<prompt> Human: M29IL Married Baby will be born Sept. 19th Currently renting 1200mo Savings: 3,000 Wife is a nurse 60kyr My salary will be 35kyr 10k of student loan debt 75mo Wife has over 80k in student loan debt 400mo I own my car, wife making payments on hers We are currently insured through her providerIf you could start your career again, what would you do differently?What are important choices that someone should make when launching a career?  <response>: Are you teaching in a school that receives Title 1 money? If so, look into Teacher Loan Forgiveness or Cancellation Theres two types, one for Direct and Stafford Loans and the other is for Perkins Loans. Details are in the link.If your place of employment will qualify you for loan forgivenesscancellation, put money towards your wifes loans. However, also look into Loan Forgiveness or Cancellation for Public Servants AND for Nurses. Theres several programs out there, so hit Google and start exploring. No sense paying off a debt that can be forgiven, so explore your options.As a kind piece of advice, if youre working in a school that qualifies you for the teacher loan forgiveness but you hate it and you want to get out, get out. I sat on a dead end teaching job so I could get my loan forgiven, but ended up there for 7 years before I was able to get into the suburbs. The salary in the suburbs was 20,000 higher. Things worked out in the end, and teaching at the original school for so long was extremely beneficial to me on a professional end. But I passed up a crap ton of money by only looking at the loan forgiveness. 