Smoke,
You will learn in life that you will always have debt unless you are rich/wealthy. I have learned that you will almost always have a mortgage payment and more often than not a car payment as well. It is a fact of life unless again, you are rich/wealthy.
Where you can really get ahead is how you budget yourself. Between my fiancee and I, we have two car payments, mortgage and my student loans every month, outside of your basic utilities, gas, food, entertainment, etc. We are also planning a wedding that we are paying for 100%.
Even with all of that, I budget us to where we still save every month on top of what we have already saved for a "rainy" day.
Don't try to live outside of your means and don't try to frustrate yourself with paying it off quickly. 30k is not much, but seeing that you are a young guy, it will still take a few years to pay off..
Edit: NOT carrying a balance on your CCs is a definite must. A friend of mine pays almost $200/month on interest alone because he racked up his CCs a few years ago when he was irresponsible. That's $2,400/year, which is a good amount of mod money!!!