Personal Budget Training: Hard Work

Monday, May 19, 2008

Hard Work

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Kentucky public defender, Adam Greenway, knows hard work. He delivers pizza to pay off college loans. Greenway, who works for the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy, graduated in 2005 from Syracuse University College of Law in New York with a $130,000 student loan. Currently with a salary lingering right around $30,000 per year, a mortgage, three children and a $130,000 student law school loan to pay, Greenway picked up the second job in October 2006.

"Being a lawyer doesn't give me any kind of excuse not to work hard," he said. "It doesn't make me above anybody else just because I'm a lawyer. I could have decided not to be a public defender, not to come to Kentucky and stayed in New York or New Jersey or Pennsylvania and done private practice and done fine. But this is what I really love doing. As long as I still love it, I hope to keep doing it."

Labels: college, Debt Reduction