The new story about Millennials is how they're doing in middle age.
CNBC's series "Make It" found them regretting having taken on student loans to finance their education.
Among them are Jeffrey and Shannon Street. They met at the University of Idaho Law School, graduated together in 2012 and passed the bar in 2013.
At law school graduation in 2012 here was a snapshot of that debt:
Jeffrey - $92,000 (no undergratuate student loans)
Shannon - $87,058 - law school, $17,125 undergraduate
Average interest rate - 6.7%
Currently, their student loan debt stands at:
Jeffrey - $27,630
Shannon - $6,820.
Over the years they were obsessed with that debt. That meant putting off starting a family for six years. Most of what they lived with was used merchandise.
Like many lawyers who don't receive their law degrees from the T-14, they were unable to get law jobs upon graduation.
Jeffrey wound up working third shift at Target. Shannon's day job was in the framing department at Michael's.
Eventually, when Jeffrey landed a job in the legal sector it was in Colorado, with annual compensation of $36,000.
Later, it was in the Fort Worth-Dallas area where they both were able to be hired into relatively well-paying legal jobs.
Jeffrey does not regret going to law school. He sees it as having been necessary to become an attorney, a profession he enjoys. However, he voices a need for government policies to help with student loan debt.
The couple have two children and live in Boise, Idaho.
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