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It really doesn't matter what your major is. I went to college mostly as a means to get some distance from my horrible family, and I advise anyone coming from

It really doesn't matter what your major is. I went to college mostly as a means to get some distance from my horrible family, and I advise anyone coming from a rough family to go to college just so you don't need to do with your family as much. You don't need to go to a good one, even with a GED. You can always go down to community college a few cities over. That can more than be enough. >Now, obviously, that's not the case with all education, but my next gripe with it is the seemingly insurmountable debt that said education brings. Literally, all of my friends that have gone to college are no where near paying their debt off and I'm in my late 30s. I will say this generation is all about complaining and less about hard work. It's about going on Twitter to complain about how hard it is to find a job, instead of going on LinkedIn to actually find one. I can make a single phone call and pay off all my student loan debt today, I just feel no need to since some politician is going to eventually forgive it some of it. I also use having a degree as a filter for who I associate with. In my current city, except for a single person I've never gone out with anyone not either pursuing, or currently holding at least a four year degree. If you tell me your 24 or something and you've never gone to college and you've never worked, I know you can bring harm to me. I'm from a very bad background full of these freaks who don't want to do anything except cause chaos. Hold high standards for both yourself, and anyone else you surround yourself with. For example, on the Tinder TOS thread, I saw a minor debate over if it's okay to exclude people who don't have jobs from your dating pool. I wasn't going to argue with anyone directly, but if you tell me your unemployed and you're still spending all day on match or Tinder, I don't want to be around you. Where I'm from, if someone doesn't have a job particularly they aren't even trying to find one, bad things tend to happen.

Dracophoenix 5y ago
>I went to college mostly as a means to get some distance from my horrible family, and I advise anyone coming from a rough family to go to college just so you don't need to do with your family as much. You don't need to go to a good one, even with a GED. You can always go down to community college a few cities over. That can more than be enough. What major did you choose? How did you manage to find an apartment and the means to pay for independently one at 18?
- 999900000999 5y ago
  Back in a distant time, even in LA you could find an apartment for 600$. Add in loans and it wasn't really hard. This is why I'm actually a defender of student loans, used correctly their the best thing ever. At 18 you can do dozens of life destroying stupid things. You can have a kid you can't afford, drive drunk , etc. Taking out a loan for school isn't going to hurt even if it doesn't work out
  - Dracophoenix 5y ago
    Loans don't help with credit checks, background checks, and the now-common reluctance to renting apartments out to undergrads. I don't know how little paperwork and difficulty existed during the hallowed '90s, but I doubt those circumstances could be replicated for an 18 year old wanting to escape his family today without going homeless. Let's not forget that government-backed loans will require information regarding parental income and assets unless you file as "Independent", a status with its own restrictions on well may apply.
    - 999900000999 5y ago
      I'm not that old, you could get an apartment in LA for $600 just 10 years ago. I was also working full time too, a good chunk of the time anyway, so that helped. You could seriously figure it out 10 years ago

Dracophoenix 5y ago

>I went to college mostly as a means to get some distance from my horrible family, and I advise anyone coming from a rough family to go to college just so you don't need to do with your family as much. You don't need to go to a good one, even with a GED. You can always go down to community college a few cities over. That can more than be enough. What major did you choose? How did you manage to find an apartment and the means to pay for independently one at 18?

999900000999 5y ago
Back in a distant time, even in LA you could find an apartment for 600$. Add in loans and it wasn't really hard. This is why I'm actually a defender of student loans, used correctly their the best thing ever. At 18 you can do dozens of life destroying stupid things. You can have a kid you can't afford, drive drunk , etc. Taking out a loan for school isn't going to hurt even if it doesn't work out
- Dracophoenix 5y ago
  Loans don't help with credit checks, background checks, and the now-common reluctance to renting apartments out to undergrads. I don't know how little paperwork and difficulty existed during the hallowed '90s, but I doubt those circumstances could be replicated for an 18 year old wanting to escape his family today without going homeless. Let's not forget that government-backed loans will require information regarding parental income and assets unless you file as "Independent", a status with its own restrictions on well may apply.
  - 999900000999 5y ago
    I'm not that old, you could get an apartment in LA for $600 just 10 years ago. I was also working full time too, a good chunk of the time anyway, so that helped. You could seriously figure it out 10 years ago