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Sly Fox wrote:You can have them take community college classes through their teenage years and have an associates degree before most of the public school kids get their diplomas. I'm not sure how it is in the QCs these days, but down here in Texas the community colleges are so underwritten by taxpayers that it is dirt cheap. By the time our kids are college-age, who knows what education will look like? It has changed dramatcially in just the past 4-5 years.this will probably be the case as by our current plan, the kids will have graduated hs by 16 yrs old. our comm colleges are so inexpensive that after financial aid kicks in, kids have money left over for books. yeah thats my fear. who knows what it will look like. costs...quality....etc.
SuperJon wrote: I love dc Talk.
SuperJon wrote:I will have my $60k in student loans and two degrees I'm not using as a good example of why you go to community college first.good friends of ours graduated and got married and combined have 150k in loans. what a crippling entrance into life. i escaped with 12k and paid it off in 10 years. my % was so miniscule at the time. 1 degree in business, the other in history. 100k in student loans for a useless history degree. why useless? its good for 1 job. teaching history. her current job she got before she graduated, and can't for the life of her find a job in her "field" .
SuperJon wrote: I love dc Talk.
PAmedic wrote:you're absolutely right
PAmedic wrote:you're absolutely right
Sly Fox wrote:Which is why the DFW economy has lagged so far behind Houston for the past decade. But none of that has anything to do with the fact that my oil & gas client are hurting right now ... which means I am hurting as well.Sorry you're hurting...
PAmedic wrote:you're absolutely right
RubberMallet wrote:I graduated with 0% debt but that was in 1975. I had no loans, scholarships or grants. Too dumb to think that way. I worked full time and went to school full time and graduated in 4 yrs. Oh to be that young again.SuperJon wrote:I will have my $60k in student loans and two degrees I'm not using as a good example of why you go to community college first.good friends of ours graduated and got married and combined have 150k in loans. what a crippling entrance into life. i escaped with 12k and paid it off in 10 years. my % was so miniscule at the time. 1 degree in business, the other in history. 100k in student loans for a useless history degree. why useless? its good for 1 job. teaching history. her current job she got before she graduated, and can't for the life of her find a job in her "field" .
PAmedic wrote:you're absolutely right
ATrain wrote:It was also more feasable to work full time and pay off college. The price of college tuition today is, on average, 1,120% more than it was 30 years ago. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... of-the-dayThat's a good one.
Good luck doing that today with a minimum wage job. You may be able to afford your books for a semester.
DB89 wrote:Learn how to weld a pipe, install a fence, plumb a house or move an interior wall. Then call a competent CPA. You can create amazing wealth with specific education and a bucket of hustle.Replace pipe, fence, and that stuff with design a website and create graphics and you've got me.
JakeP50 wrote:Not a joke if you work for the bookstore.ATrain wrote:It was also more feasable to work full time and pay off college. The price of college tuition today is, on average, 1,120% more than it was 30 years ago. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... of-the-dayThat's a good one.
Good luck doing that today with a minimum wage job. You may be able to afford your books for a semester.
alabama24 wrote:FTFYJakeP50 wrote:Not a joke if you worked for the bookstore.ATrain wrote:It was also more feasable to work full time and pay off college. The price of college tuition today is, on average, 1,120% more than it was 30 years ago. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... of-the-dayThat's a good one.
Good luck doing that today with a minimum wage job. You may be able to afford your books for a semester.
PAmedic wrote:you're absolutely right
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