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

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.

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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:
 
tsuke said:
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.

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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:
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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
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Basically he has a job playing on his cell phone it appears. Also he's not 29, he's 38. :doh:
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.
 
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anonymoose said:
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. :doh:
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.
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it seems that he got a masters degree to be a customer service rep.
 
Sailor said:
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.
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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-loans/average-cost-of-college
 
reagansghost said:
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
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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.
 
anonymoose said:
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. :doh:
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.
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Didn't know they gave doctorate degrees in bullshit.

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

Nevermind.
 
Nomad said:
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.
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The health care crisis would be solved if we banned health insurance. Health costs would plummet very quickly to about 5% of what they are now.
 
So a couple points. I think there should be a lot of interest forgiveness but don't think the principle should be forgiven.
Yes some fault on the borrower and need for contractual accountability, however, some institutions, whatever ed they may be
have been providing , are proven to have misrepped employment data. Devil in the details. If the=is is culinary college, then the choice was
poor. I am certain the 235k is not owed due to attending Cal Tech. It's some degree that provides a shaky return.

Even private student loans are hard to BK, you have to file an adversarial, and gubmint ones are not dischargable.

Question for volsjerk, why so angry at the student debt when its not dischargeable and credit card debt is discharged every fucking day?
I would think that would piss you off way more. People are buying "Obamaphones" and hanging Chase and Capital One out to dry
getting a discharge and on the way out the door they are applying for their next high interest card to go to Zales or Victoria Secret
to buy a teddie for their side action. Where is your outrage?
 
reagansghost said:
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
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How about the "student(s)" thinking BEFORE they commit to the loan?? :palm:
 
Jade Dragon said:
You really are naive to this issue. Even the wealthy often borrow to go to college. Your ideas are not realistic, as no one is going to do menial jobs till they're older, and then go to college. What's the point, since you'd instead have to borrow for other living expenses while you save?
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And some liberals pay BRIBES for their kids to get into College.

:truestory:
 
Gonzomin said:
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.
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OR MAYBE; there needs to be a groundswell of people refusing to send their kids to College, until the high costs are addressed and changed.

FREE MARKET BABY. :good4u:
 
Just curious; but is it possible that just maybe these "Expensive Colleges" would do some restructuring of their costs, if no one enrolled for say 5 years??
 
Text Drivers are Killers said:
The health care crisis would be solved if we banned health insurance. Health costs would plummet very quickly to about 5% of what they are now.
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I don't think so.

People who work in the health care industry, hospitals, clinics, doctors' offices, pharmaceutical companies and medical supply manufacturing companies etc, etc, are paid very well. They insist on being paid well and they want good fringe benefits to go with it. Even hospital custodians get paid well and have benefits. All of that costs a lot of money and drives up the cost of health care. Insurance companies get every price break hospitals can give them so that they can pay claims and remain profitable, but it's still astronomical.

The only way to bring down costs across the board, would be for everyone who works in the health care industry to take a pay cut, which is of course, never going to happen. Or the government could enact some kind of health care payroll tax similar to the Medicare deduction that comes out of everyone's paycheck already. That way, by spreading the cost out across every working American, the cost per person would drop drastically.

Along with the payroll tax, each person could be required to pay a copay for doctor visits based on their income and expenses.

I would even go as far as saying that we should have guaranteed catastrophic illness coverage for every American. Let people pay something for their doctor visits for minor illnesses like colds, viruses, aches, pains and sprains etc. Maybe allow hospitals and ER's to stop taking those cases and let walk in clinics handle all that. But for anything that would run up a total bill of over $10k - $20k, let the national coverage take care of most of it over a certain percentage or dollar amount.

Something needs to be done soon or the system is going to collapse.
 
Jade Dragon said:
You really are naive to this issue. Even the wealthy often borrow to go to college. Your ideas are not realistic, as no one is going to do menial jobs till they're older, and then go to college. What's the point, since you'd instead have to borrow for other living expenses while you save?
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Says the douche living at home with mama living on the dole with fake disabilities
 
Gonzomin said:
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.
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Ummmm

Obama took over the student loan bidness

Just sayin

How is it the bankstas fault. It is so easy being a leftist when you are ignorant all of the time
 
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