$393 a Month

FunInTheSun wrote:

If you’re going to spend $393 a month to repay a student loan, your occupation should make it worthwhile. If your major is Art History, Gender Studies, Theater Arts, Liberal Arts, etc., good luck.

Don’t bother trying to educate a liberal, let them burn in the poor choices they made and the conditions they’ve created!

They learn only foolishness and end up working for the government that creates the bubbles they live in on dollars they don’t have.

EVERYTHING SPELLS CORRECTION THROUGH SOCIALISTIC CRASH!

Hang on tight honey! Poverty is well established and consuming multi millions! You’re going DOWN and men like me are running!

If every dude took control of his life and abandoned modern women things would change in their attitudes overnight!

They’re liberated, let them go! Let them be foreigners not allowed in! No visa, no pass, only returning the hostility as any declared enemy would naturally do!

Congratulations on your liberation ladies! Isn’t it GREAT being a MAN??? Now, what to do…

An 18 years old can’t buy booze, but can borrow thousands of dollars for useless degrees. Society is f~~~ed, and there’s no fixing it, let it burn.

Thank God I didn’t go to college at 18. At that age, I didn’t know s~~~ about anything.

Since they say 60% of college graduates are bitches, then, it must means they hold most of the debt. Let’s not forget about credit card debt, mortgages, car loan, and whatnot. These c~~~s are drowning in debt, but too bad, I’m not a lifeguard.

In America, a single man with no debt, with a roof over his head, and food on his plate, is a rich man.

Absolutely right G.O.A.T. and Monk! Except for my mortgage, which is ridiculously small, that’s what I’ve got. And I’m not screwin’ it up for any woman!

If it wasn’t for my father, I would be part of that statistic. When I was a lot younger, I will admit that I wasn’t seeing the whole picture and was going down the wrong path in getting a useless degree. With some pushing, I changed careers and got into a demanding field that pays well with the added benefit of no student debt (in community college, the program was about $10k).

Lone Wolf83 wrote:

If it wasn’t for my father, I would be part of that statistic. When I was a lot younger, I will admit that I wasn’t seeing the whole picture and was going down the wrong path in getting a useless degree. With some pushing, I changed careers and got into a demanding field that pays well with the added benefit of no student debt (in community college, the program was about $10k).

I’ve got no sympathy for people who bury themselves in student loans. I did the community college thing as well, and when I went to a state university I commuted. It cut my costs down to about 1/3 of what they would have been had I lived on campus for 4 years like a lot of people do.

I knew a lot of people back then that called community college “high school part II” like it was a bad thing, and who wanted to live on campus so badly just for the sake of partying. The way I looked at it at the time was I was passing up on fun to avoid the debt. Fast forward until we are all graduated and some of those some people certainly don’t like sleeping in the bed they made for themselves, but its not my fault, and not my problem.

A lot of them also don’t work at all in college. Ultimately though if you get a part time job and make 100 bucks a week and throw it all towards your school…that is 5200 bucks a year. Multiply that by 4 and the average student could trim their debt by more than half. 100 bucks a week…you could make that working 2-3 afternoons a week at Wal Mart…or quite possibly in one night of waiting tables somewhere. Of course though…who wants to give up a Friday night or Saturday for the sake of minimizing some debt they won’t have to think about for a few more years.

While I agree with what you are saying I would just clarify that its more a question of making an informed decision about how you spend your money for education. I got an MA in philosophy and certainly for the money I invested I did not receive a commensurate increase in the money I make today. However, I always knew this would be the case and I did not study to get the degree because of the career opportunities.

If you want to burn a bunch of money on basket weaving or art history be my guest, but do it because you love studying these subjects, do not expect to get a fat paycheque and do not bitch later when you get your degree in Peruvian comparative literature.

Let them do what they want. My career advice if you’re interested in IT/software is to do the cheapest bachelor degree you can afford. Learn your real skills in McDonald’s using their free wifi to watch you tube videos and do a project for a small/medium business for free of charge (if required).
Degree = tick
Skill set = tick
Experience = tick
Get your foot in the door and you’re set for life!