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> Her family mocks her, and the saddled debt makes it harder to keep up with her debt free peers. Her choice of career is a nontrivial factor in her continuing
by catlover76 3y ago
> Her family mocks her, and the saddled debt makes it harder to keep up with her debt free peers.
Her choice of career is a nontrivial factor in her continuing to lag behind financially. It basically accounts for most of the problem, really.
> I also still think loading up teenagers with $120k of debt is utter bullshit.
Maybe, but even assuming that's so, there are career paths where, in the end, that doesn't matter because one makes enough money to overcome that in the long run.
edit: also, her family mocking her just means her family is shit lol; unlike the economic issues raised by her story, it's not a societal problem that merits consideration.
- EA-3167 3y agoIt's not just that her career was a bad choice, it's that she went into $120,000 in the name of that career. If you spend a few years chasing your dreams without going into six figures of debt, it's a lot more sensible than just ignoring all advice we deem to be unpleasant and ending up like the author. Going to an ivy league school and taking on that debt without any plan to pay it off is just careless. That isn't about systemic poverty, it's the poor choices individuals make and assume "it will all work out later." Her talent is examining heartbreak she says, and my response is, "Did you think honing that talent is worth $120,000? Could you have honed it by spending half that amount somewhere else?"
- catlover76 3y agoCertainly. Granted, I also did this lol: > Going to an ivy league school and taking on that debt without any plan to pay it off is just careless. Luckily, I can be a software engineer--but that's just luck, at this point (I didn't major in CS)