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With $165,000 in student loan debt and additional debt on her credit cards, Heather Schopp is struggling just to pay the minimum payments each month.

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At Cook's insistence, Schopp is using an Excel spreadsheet to trace her spending.

Advice: Create a budget, reduce living expenses and earn more money 2006

Except for her terrier puppy, Schroeder, Stephanie Tinsley Schopp was alone on the couch in her Los Angeles apartment on Nov. 20 when she watched the last episode of the fall for the AMC horror series "The Walking Dead."

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A day after her offending post, Ms. Tinsley Schopp, a 34-year-old videogame publicist who joined Twitter in 2007, used the social network to issue a defensive apology: LOOK, I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS THE FINALE.

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Heather Schopp, 29, of Long Beach, Calif., has both a full-time job and a part-time job.

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If the 3 Fallon books or the last Dumas/Schopp book that I imported from Australia and France respectively and are most expensive books I've bought recently were shorter, I would not have paid the price.

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"I know I could go somewhere else and make the same amount of money and start to get ahead," Schopp says.

Chiropractor works 2 jobs to chip away at $165,000 in school debt 2006

Like tens of thousands of twentysomethings, Schopp emerged from college and graduate school with so much debt that her transition into full-fledged adult life has been difficult.

Chiropractor works 2 jobs to chip away at $165,000 in school debt 2006

Heather Schopp lives just two minutes from the beach in Long Beach, Calif.

Chiropractor works 2 jobs to chip away at $165,000 in school debt 2006

USA TODAYHeather Schopp lives just two minutes from the ocean in Long Beach, Calif., but with two jobs she doesn't have the time to enjoy it.

Chiropractor works 2 jobs to chip away at $165,000 in school debt 2006