500K in college loan debt, earning 80K a year!!!!

Quote from RichardRimes:

No it doesn't. Community colleges are relatively inexpensive and poor students CAN get grants for much of the tuition which doesn't need to be paid back. They can WORK to support themselves.

I worked 40 hrs a week and carried a 12 hr course load in college. There was/is a whole generation that did the same. I do think loans are important but should be taken ONLY for tuition....NEVER NEVER NEVER as a means of support ..that is where the student gets into trouble. Live at home, work, and go to CC for the basic 1 or 2 years. If you are doing well and know what you want after college then get a loan, scholarship and move to a 4 yr degree program.

The real scam is these 20 and 30K programs for "medical assistants", cosmetologist etc......make me sick.
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I had two jobs when I was attending college. Of course I had no time for frat parties and drug induced orgies but then that wasn't why I was in college to begin with.
 
Kids these days...

when I was 12 I walk 100 miles to college in freezing blizzards and scorching heat, carried my sick horse on my back, held 5 jobs, took care of my 12 sibling and 3 parents

what has this country come too...
 
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Kids these days...

when I was 12 I walk 100 miles to college in freezing blizzards and scorching heat, carried my sick horse on my back, held 5 jobs, took care of my 12 sibling and 3 parents

what has this country come too...
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:p :D :p there is always ONE in the crowd.....


uhmmmm...I guess I need to confess...working/school sucked...after 2 years I married rich and graduated from a private school...oh well
 
Quote from Lucrum:

I had two jobs when I was attending college. Of course I had no time for frat parties and drug induced orgies but then that wasn't why I was in college to begin with.
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Really? The drug induced orgies were the biggest selling point when I was applying to schools.
 
In the house I grew up in having a European parent stating that U.S. colleges were nothing more than an a scam industry. There was some merit to it.
As the system stands right now there is no other option than to bite the debt bullet and get a degree if one wants to increase their chances economically in the US. It does not matter how skilled or intelligent a person is, if they don't have that slip of paper in their hand the odds of meaningful employment are slim.
The real issue is when unscrupulous organizations capitalize on the uninformed. They get lead down the primrose path only to find out what they worked hard for does not guaranty employment but only increases the odds. In my opinion State schools and Ivy league schools have the actual credentials to print degrees.

Akuma
 
Quote from Rationalize:

It's all relative.

Perhaps there's a weak dollar related manufacturing boom coming to the US.

Got a trade certificate?
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Highly unlikely, with lower labor costs in the continent of Africa. Both China and India are setting up the continent to be thier future workforce.

I used to be a Manufacturing Quality Supervisor with Red X Shainin engineer papers.

Akuma
 
Forget 500k or 80K. Focus on
How much tax you're paying to US regime?
How many jobs you've created in USA?
How much FDI are you getting to USA?
 
Quote from RewriteQuran:

Forget 500k or 80K. Focus on
How much tax you're paying to US regime?
How many jobs you've created in USA?
How much FDI are you getting to USA?
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that's not the topic?
 
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