Ghostvette |
02-19-2016 10:38 AM |
Dang, I'm away from the forum for 2 days and miss some interesting things. :icon14:
But I thought I'd toss my :twocents: into the student loan, 'gimme free stuff' discussion.
Personally, I think Americans have been sold a 'bill of goods' when it comes to college, not everyone needs a degree; there is still a need for people to dig ditches and do things that don't require a degree.
I agree with Lein, as far as the 'most kids in high school don't know what they want to do'. I didn't have a clue, and at the time, there weren't too many good jobs in KC, so I joined the military. I figured I do 4 years, learn a skill and figure it out from there. Well, the 4 became 20, and not only did I learn a skill (besides killing people at long distance :eek:), I found out what I was good at. The challenge then became: what company can I work for. It took awhile to get to where I'm at now; lots of crappy jobs for low pay, bills out the wazoo, kids, broke-azz cars, horrible places to live, and finally, a divorce from someone that wanted the trappings, but didn't want to help with the cost. :shakes head:
My biggest pet peeve through all this was the comment 'you have to pay your dues'.... :mad: MF, I paid my dues. While your narrow azz was going to school, getting established, I was in some God-forsaken piece of shite country, doing what no one else wanted to do, wondering if I was going to make it home in one piece. :shakes head: The folks I worked with learned real fast not to make that statement around me, I'd be pissed for days.
Bottom line, I have absolutely no effin' sympathy for anyone that goes to college, gets a 'liberal arts' degree (WTF is that any way? Sounds like a 'participation degree' to me), incurs 100k in debt, then whines because all they can get is a job at MickeyD's... I got my degrees AFTER I got out of the military, then it was mostly an exercise in 'ticket punching'. I had the knowledge, I just need the paper that proved it... (really?!!) I incurred some student loan debt, but I'm down to about 5k now, with a 1.25% rate, it's easy to double up payments. But I also had my associates degree paid for by way of scholarships (I waited too long to go back to school, so I wasted my GI Bill :owned:)
/rant
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