Drowning in Debt

Like most people I went to college with the belief that I would be bettering myself and creating a brighter future. I thought that if I worked hard and did well in school than upon graduation companies would be lining up to hire me. Low and behold, come graduation day in May of 2006, my prospects were pretty grim. I was too inexperienced for most companies and over qualified for others. I couldn’t seem to find a balance. I worked a few different jobs before coming to the company I am at now. I was a door to door salesperson at one point, a waitress at another time and now I work for a financial institute. I have still yet to find the job I was promised upon graduation.
What I did get from school however is over $75,000 of student loan debt, most of it being private Sallie Mae loans. I have been making my payments diligently since 2006 but have yet to make even a scrape in my loan amount. Interest accrues daily and my payments aren’t doing anything despite the thousands of dollars I have already poured into my loans over the past few years. I pay around $300 a month now which is doable on my less than $20,000 a year income but in the next year or two my loan payments are supposed to jump to over $750 a month. I don’t anticipate getting a raise to match that amount in the next two years and with this economy I can’t count on finding a better job. Now I am stuck wondering how I will be able to make those payments....