You don’t go into public service work for the money.
Matt Sembach and Malissa Williams worked as a public defender and a nurse, respectively — careers that require years of schooling.
They’re passionate about their jobs in the public sector, and the promise of student-loan forgiveness was an added bonus.
“I felt compelled to serve the public,” Sembach told Business Insider. “I worked long hours with a ton of stress to ensure that my clients received not only adequate representation, but superb representation, because I knew that their lives were on the line and it was important to them. So it was important to me.”
Both Sembach and Williams hold 6-figure student-loan balances from their educations. They’re…