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placing-the-blame-as-students-are-buried-in-debt: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/109701/placing-the-blame-as-students-are-buried-in-debt?mod=edu-collegeprep - broken link)
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She recently received a raise and now makes $22 an hour working for a photographer. It's the highest salary she's earned since graduating with an interdisciplinary degree in religious and women's studies. After taxes, she takes home about $2,300 a month. Rent runs $750, and the full monthly payments on her student loans would be about $700 if they weren't being deferred, which would not leave a lot left over.
Religious and women's studies?
Anyway, Boo-freaking-hoo. You feel bad for her reading through that article, until you see she still has $850 a month left after rent and full student loan payments (which she isn't even making). I live off 1000 a month after my base rent and full student loan payments, and I have a newer car and can afford to go out and have some fun from time to time too.
I also refuse to feel sorry for her being job-locked to San Francisco. With a degree like Religious and Women's studies it doesn't really matter where you live, why not move someplace closer to her mom (upstate NY) and/or where the chost of living is lower?
Ferris gotta agree with you on this one. Read the article and could only get back to the thought that this woman did nothing in exploring where and how much she could make after graduation. Her mother only saw the prestige from a "good school" and didn't see the related costs. Now they are boo-hooing over the fact that they were not informed over the debt and how to pay it.
Honestly at times I feel that if you can't figure out how much college is costing (get a calculator, the dollar store sells them) well maybe you shouldn't be in college.
I went to college years ago and paid for it myself via loans and hard work. Surprise, surprise I'm not working now in the field I went to college for. So what can I go back now and complain that I didn't get the job they "promised".
I got a very good education and that's all they were supposed to do for me. The rest was up to me.
This is the danger of following what we like vs what can earn us a living.....
its all well and good that everyone of us desires to work at something we love and enjoy and if we can great...
but reality is we need to do what assures us the highest chance of employment at the highest pay to cover those big student loans.......
Honestly at times I feel that if you can't figure out how much college is costing (get a calculator, the dollar store sells them) well maybe you shouldn't be in college.
That's great.
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I went to college years ago and paid for it myself via loans and hard work. Surprise, surprise I'm not working now in the field I went to college for. So what can I go back now and complain that I didn't get the job they "promised". I got a very good education and that's all they were supposed to do for me. The rest was up to me.
Maybe the situation is a good example why she isn't getting hired. Its called lack of foresight.
I'm also in the boat of "worked hard to pay my own way through college". I have ZERO sympathy to folks that 'need' to go to an exclusive school to get a degree that will be tough to find a good paying job.
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