Its been 5 years since I graduated college, where I acquired my bachelor's degree.. and I can't help but feel a little pissed off? I look at my loan payments and I am only 2/3 of the way through paying them. With that "golden job" you ask? No! I have some job (working 40 hours a week) that doesn't require any degree and work amongst those that have any college experience.
All throughout my young days I was encouraged to go to college and if I didn't I would be stocking shelves at Wal-Mart over night. I was thinking of getting my Master's degree, but then I realized, what's the point. Should I just cook meth with Walter White and live life on the edge from here on out?
Is college a huge scam? I'm sure people will give me a lecture on how it's my fault that so many degrees and the rhetorical nonsense you learn from school gets you practically nothing, but I'm sure some people are in the same boat as me. I couldn't believe the amount of worthless classes I took in my college days. Intro to Communication? Women in Society? Social Problems?? Please.
A lot of the time I bump into my classmates who followed the same path and that are paying down their debts until they turn 76. I paid the first 2 years out my pocket and I kinda feel like college was just a place I went to deposit my money and never got it back lol
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I desperately wanted to go NYU, and the price tag in 1988 and upwards of $100k in student loans triggered my frugal middle class brain. My SUNY education wound up costing less than $10k including books and luckily has served me well.
I applied for law school after undergrad and actually sent NYU a deposit check (which they didn't refund, nor would they even waive a reapplication fee) before deciding to enlist. As my enlistment wound up I started reapplying, and by this time I had a wife and a daughter so I was much more discriminating. I got into two (arguably) better schools the next time around but accounting for living expenses and the little bit of financial aid I received UVA was 1/2 the price of the other two, so thankfully I was smart enough to decide based on this. I can't fathom having 2-3x the loan burden, which it probably would have been had deployments not postponed my last two years into the timeframe of the post-9/11 GI Bill.
Good stuff, we certainly agree a little age and experience goes a long way. I beat myself up for a few years after passing on NYU, but the lack of monster payments got me to let it go before long.