Did your student debt come with a degree? What is your educational background?
Did your student debt come with a degree? What is your educational background?
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BA in Religion and a BA in Economics. I’m also very close to getting an MDiv—I spent most of Obama’s first term in the seminary. It kept the student loans off of my back and I learned a lot.
The problem is that the churches are one of the hardest ones hit money-wise when a recession comes. When the time came for me to go on vicarage—IE: basically a year as an intern pastor—it took them a year and a half to find a place for me to spend that year. And this year, when I’m looking towards being an associate pastor at the end of the year, the prospects aren’t much better now either.
I don’t have debtors on my back right at the moment, but in a few months I’ll have run out of classes, and they will be.
One would think that all this time at the seminary would have got me to trust God more. And I’m trying, but sometimes it’s really, REALLY hard to.