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What an asinine take. I was only able to afford college because of the post-9/11 GI Bill, and even then I still walked away with student loan debt. I'd be in a
by dlp211 5y ago
What an asinine take. I was only able to afford college because of the post-9/11 GI Bill, and even then I still walked away with student loan debt.
I'd be in a much better position today if I didn't have to spend time in the military and income today to pay for college. So I'm ensuring that my kids won't have to do the same. Why would I ever want to burden my kids like that.
- hinkley 5y agoI got a job in college that opened a lot of doors for me later in life, but at the time what mattered the most is that I could work fewer hours and still pay my bills, allowing me to pay more attention to school work and the other life skills that going away to college are supposed to teach you. I had friends who made it all work far better than I did, juggling a job and studies and extracurriculars, but only a fool couldn't see that they were walking around with a handicap in the form of having to pay as they went. Not working at all in school ends up being a liability when you graduate, but if the alternative is being forced by necessity to work to graduate, I'm not sure how much better the cure is than the disease.
- alexashka 5y agoYou were/are willing to go kill people you've never met and get killed, for money, and my take is asinine? People are something else.