I’m a 29-Year-Old With $235k in Student Debt.

[Gonzomin]

I have $235,000 of student debt. The first $120,000 came with a bachelor’s degree from my state school. Another $70,000 or so came with my master’s degree. The remainder is accrued interest.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/m-29-...151734965.html

So what? Why did you borrow it? You created the problem, don’t expect someone else to solve it for you. Welcome to the real world...Idiot.

I noticed he didn’t say what his master’s degree is in. I’ll bet it’s in lesbian dance Theory.


FUCK this idiot. Am I supposed to give a shit about his poor decision making?

When I was going to college it was 16 bucks a credit hour. You paid for your classes in advance or did not go. It was easily affordable. This problem has been created by corporations and banks who are looting higher learning students. If you believe the country is better served by having more citizens getting a higher education, you should make it affordable or free.

[tsuke]

you know when i see one of these things id like to tell us what they majored in for these degrees.

[Loving91390]

Who needs an orthodontist anymore ? ...... Smile Direct Club .

[Celticguy]

All the proof you ever needed to show why it was insane to socialize the student loan business.

[anonymoose]

You should read the comments section after the article in the link. This putz gets no sympathy. At all. And he shouldn't.

[tsuke]

he alwso says he lives in a 600 sq ft apartment. thats quite big for a new grad.

[tsuke]

lol i read this in the comments

Carefully avoiding mentioning his major (journalism). Also, he didn't include a link to his web page, which includes a picture of him standing on a 12th century castle in Jordan, and then also mentions that a year after that, he attempted to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, right after studying in Morocco, and spending time in Kenya studying ecology and conservation.

So, in other words, your tax dollars -- which are subsidizing his lower-than-market-interest student loans -- funded his world travels. At age 29, he's already traveled the world more than most people ever will, but he wants YOU, the American taxpayer, to pay off his student loans. Such a joke.

++

and even more research reveals THIS nugget -- an interview from 2017 in which he states he didn't have a part-time job while in college because student loans gave him the "financial freedom" to not have to work while in school:

[anonymoose]

lol i read this in the comments

Carefully avoiding mentioning his major (journalism). Also, he didn't include a link to his web page, which includes a picture of him standing on a 12th century castle in Jordan, and then also mentions that a year after that, he attempted to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, right after studying in Morocco, and spending time in Kenya studying ecology and conservation.

So, in other words, your tax dollars -- which are subsidizing his lower-than-market-interest student loans -- funded his world travels. At age 29, he's already traveled the world more than most people ever will, but he wants YOU, the American taxpayer, to pay off his student loans. Such a joke.

++

and even more research reveals THIS nugget -- an interview from 2017 in which he states he didn't have a part-time job while in college because student loans gave him the "financial freedom" to not have to work while in school:

He's on LinkedIn. Right now he's a "Customer Success Lead", has been for a yr. and 3 mos. with some company called Ground Source.
From their website:

GroundSource is a platform that lets journalists, ethnographers, community organizers and others establish lasting connections with targeted demographics over SMS, web and voice. We make it easy to gather first-hand experience, contextual insight and qualitative research from even the hardest-to-reach people on the simplest mobile phones. We're reinforcing empathy as the most quintessential human value, one question at a time

Basically he has a job playing on his cell phone it appears. Also he's not 29, he's 38.
I finished school at 26 with a doctorate and paid off my loans in full at 29. Also worked part time while in undergrad and professional school. And I lived like a roach my first 2.5 yrs. after graduation.

[tsuke]

He's on LinkedIn. Right now he's a "Customer Success Lead", has been for a yr. and 3 mos. with some company called Ground Source.
From their website:
Basically he has a job playing on his cell phone it appears. Also he's not 29, he's 38.
I finished school at 26 with a doctorate and paid off my loans in full at 29. Also worked part time while in undergrad and professional school. And I lived like a roach my first 2.5 yrs. after graduation.

it seems that he got a masters degree to be a customer service rep.

[anonymoose]

it seems that he got a masters degree to be a customer service rep.

And did you see his parents are paying his student loans until they die? He's 38 yrs. old FFS.

[reagansghost]

Pay cash, afford your education as you go, or find other ways to pay for it (military, work a few years before going, etc). Common sense things. Basic economics do not appear to be taught in HS anymore.

no way, tuition fees for any halfway decent university are off the charts, even working a typical Trump-voter job like flipping burgers won't cut it..........they'd end up like those people you see at Reichstag rallies


the average cost of college for the 2017–2018 school year was $20,770 for public schools (in-state) and $46,950 for nonprofit private schools, only including tuition, fees, and room and board. Each year, school costs have continued to increase, even accounting for inflation.

https://www.valuepenguin.com/student...ost-of-college

[Nomad]

in very real way the debt was foisted upon them

in this world of outrageously expensive higher education what would they do if not or the vultures crawling all over the student loan industry?

think before you post

Higher education and health care have gotten so outrageously expensive average people can't afford either.

Some idiots will say "so what?" but what will happen to America when people stop going to college? What will happen to America when health insurance premiums get so expensive everyone stops buying it and just doesn't pay their hospital and doctor bills?

Something is wrong here and it needs to be dealt with.

[Nomad]

He's on LinkedIn. Right now he's a "Customer Success Lead", has been for a yr. and 3 mos. with some company called Ground Source.
From their website:
Basically he has a job playing on his cell phone it appears. Also he's not 29, he's 38.
I finished school at 26 with a doctorate and paid off my loans in full at 29. Also worked part time while in undergrad and professional school. And I lived like a roach my first 2.5 yrs. after graduation.

Didn't know they gave doctorate degrees in bullshit.

Oh wait, you're a lying sack of turds.

Nevermind.

[Text Drivers are Killers]

I
I noticed he didn’t say what his master’s degree is in. I’ll bet it’s in lesbian dance Theory.

Or Ancient Etruscan Mythology or African Studies or some other easy useless degree.

[reagansghost]

Or Ancient Etruscan Mythology or African Studies or some other easy useless degree.

along with American Ku Klux Klan Atrocities