Pages: 1 [2] 
|
 |
|
 Author
|
Topic: Holy shit, I graduated college (Read 10041 times)
|
Paelos
Contributor
Posts: 27075
Error 404: Title not found.
|
Find a good golf course. Become a caddy. Make decent money and learn how to carry on conversations with anybody.
Apply for your grad school while you do that.
|
CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
|
|
|
|
Sheepherder
Terracotta Army
Posts: 5192
|
Firefighting is interesting work with little barrier to entry if you can find a place where your training costs are covered by your department or by the municipal/state/provincial/federal/reserve government. If you're smart, wear your breathing apparatus, and wash your hands thoroughly after a call you won't even die of ass cancer at 65.
|
|
|
|
|
Bzalthek
Terracotta Army
Posts: 3110
"Use the Soy Sauce, Luke!" WHOM, ZASH, CLISH CLASH! "Umeboshi Kenobi!! NOOO!!!"
|
Oh, I hear a lot of strippers are working their way through college too. It seems pretty popular!
|
"Pity hurricanes aren't actually caused by gays; I would take a shot in the mouth right now if it meant wiping out these chucklefucks." ~WayAbvPar
|
|
|
Yegolev
Moderator
Posts: 24440
2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
|
Nebu had great advice, but as his polar opposite in many ways I'd be remiss in my duties if I did not point out that it is possible to be financially successful without a college degree. I'm not going to say that it is easier, or that you can do whatever you want, but it is possible. Find what you like to do and see if you can make money doing it. Otherwise see if you can like what you make money doing. If you enjoy what you make money doing, you won't work a day in your life.
Assuming that you are intending to enter a field that requires a formal education, then do what Nebu says. Do not, however, rack up $76k in student loans to get a Master's in Fine Art from a fancy school, especially if you don't have any other marketable skills.
|
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
|
|
|
NowhereMan
Terracotta Army
Posts: 7353
|
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Yeg's advice may be somewhat late in this case.
|
"Look at my car. Do you think that was bought with the earnest love of geeks?" - HaemishM
|
|
|
Signe
Terracotta Army
Posts: 18942
Muse.
|
Cowboy. That's what you should be. All of you.
|
My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
|
|
|
NiX
Wiki Admin
Posts: 7770
Locomotive Pandamonium
|
Fuck flossing, this calls for another beer.
I just spent $120 for a temporary filling. This is on top of the fact that my dentist turned to me and said "We'll have to spread this across a year. You don't have enough insurance." PROTECT YOUR FUCKING TEETH. |
|
|
|
|
Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
Posts: 15542
The World's Worst Game: Curry or Covid
|
OMG COMMUNIST SOCIALIST HEALTHCARE FAIL!!1!11!ONE  |
Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
"Hell is other people." -Sartre
|
|
|
NiX
Wiki Admin
Posts: 7770
Locomotive Pandamonium
|
OMG COMMUNIST SOCIALIST HEALTHCARE FAIL!!1!11!ONE I can still walk in and out of a hospital without worrying about anything going to collections  |
|
|
|
|
ezrast
Terracotta Army
Posts: 2125
|
My outlook on student loans is I'll take them if I need to, because hey, how bad can being poor forever be?  Seriously, I know debt is bad but I've never heard a student loans ruined my life story the way you hear with credit cards, etc. Not to say it hasn't happened, but I really don't like spending money I haven't earned and I trust myself to manage a little debt appropriately. I'm sure my perspective will change if/when I actually do go into debt, but such is life. |
|
|
|
|
Soln
Terracotta Army
Posts: 4737
the opportunity for evil is just delicious
|
nothing wrong with student loans. I just say be careful. Particularly with for profit colleges.
|
|
|
|
|
Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
Posts: 15542
The World's Worst Game: Curry or Covid
|
I took whatever I felt I needed with student loans, with the assumption that the degree would allow me to do something later to make paying them off not a big deal.
If you end up going through school successfully, but are unable to get your loans taken care of...then the monthly payment may be the least of your problems.
|
Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
"Hell is other people." -Sartre
|
|
|
Grimwell
Developers
Posts: 752
[Redacted]
|
Nothing bad with a student loan at all. The interest is pretty good and they have very friendly deferment clauses for when you aren't going to be able to pay promptly. The negative is that you have that monthly monkey on your back for a long time. It took us a decade to pay down my wife's student loans. It wasn't a horrible debt as far as debts go, but it was a debt.
|
Grimwell
|
|
|
Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
Posts: 15542
The World's Worst Game: Curry or Covid
|
My hope is to be debt free within 5 years. Too bad I'll probably need to buy a vehicle next year.
|
Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
"Hell is other people." -Sartre
|
|
|
Cheddar
I like pink
Posts: 4987
Noob Sauce
|
My hope is to be debt free within 5 years. Too bad I'll probably need to buy a vehicle next year.
You work for the guberments. Never happening! |
No Nerf, but I put a link to this very thread and I said that you all can guarantee for my purity. I even mentioned your case, and see if they can take a look at your lawn from a Michigan perspective.
|
|
|
|
Pages: 1 [2] 
|
|
|
 |
