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<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1699773" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>Honestly, I'm not sure. There's a broad spectrum of folks saddled with student loan debt for different reasons-- I carry the "national average" with a liberal arts degree but have a decent enough job to be able to pay ahead on my student loans because I went to a public university. I got out at just the right time because tuition started spiking my junior and senior years as more and more state governments started advocating educational austerity. This had the additional consequence of my original chosen profession (teaching) actually paying less than moving boxes in a warehouse. </p><p></p><p>Part of the problem is generational and the other part is the climate shift in the jobs market. Coming of age, millennials were told we could be anything we wanted to be if we just went to college. Then the recession happened and we had to compete with our parents' generation for entry-level jobs. </p><p></p><p>18 year olds are adults, sure. But just barely. They don't have the life experience to understand they're essentially taking on a house payment later down the road if they want to pursue XYZ degree at the private university they were accepted into and the best thing they can hope for is a white collar job paying $30k/year. </p><p></p><p>I went to community college/paid of out pocket (charging tuition to a credit card sucks FYI but I was fortunate enough to work at a hub with tuition reimbursement) for about 70% of my college career. I didn't have to pursue student loans until my early 20's but still didn't really take in the entire ramifications of the financial decisions I was making. Quite a few of my friends tried to hide from the economy by going to college and they're paying the price now. </p><p></p><p>It doesn't help that the DoE is now one of the best funded government bodies. Private companies are more than willing to shell out a student loan for almost anyone or anything, especially when the tax payers are underwriting their losses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1699773, member: 42270"] Honestly, I'm not sure. There's a broad spectrum of folks saddled with student loan debt for different reasons-- I carry the "national average" with a liberal arts degree but have a decent enough job to be able to pay ahead on my student loans because I went to a public university. I got out at just the right time because tuition started spiking my junior and senior years as more and more state governments started advocating educational austerity. This had the additional consequence of my original chosen profession (teaching) actually paying less than moving boxes in a warehouse. Part of the problem is generational and the other part is the climate shift in the jobs market. Coming of age, millennials were told we could be anything we wanted to be if we just went to college. Then the recession happened and we had to compete with our parents' generation for entry-level jobs. 18 year olds are adults, sure. But just barely. They don't have the life experience to understand they're essentially taking on a house payment later down the road if they want to pursue XYZ degree at the private university they were accepted into and the best thing they can hope for is a white collar job paying $30k/year. I went to community college/paid of out pocket (charging tuition to a credit card sucks FYI but I was fortunate enough to work at a hub with tuition reimbursement) for about 70% of my college career. I didn't have to pursue student loans until my early 20's but still didn't really take in the entire ramifications of the financial decisions I was making. Quite a few of my friends tried to hide from the economy by going to college and they're paying the price now. It doesn't help that the DoE is now one of the best funded government bodies. Private companies are more than willing to shell out a student loan for almost anyone or anything, especially when the tax payers are underwriting their losses. [/QUOTE]
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