I worked my way through college. And I felt lucky when I got my first professional job after I graduated. No complaints.
But I will say this. It’s just fortunate that there was no Twitter or YouTube back in those days. Because I said dumb things in my 20s that would rival what that young woman said.
Such is the stupidity of youth.
True that. And before I finished high school I spoke with people already working in the field I wanted to go into (software programming) and asked them what kind of training was really good and worth spending time and money on. Every advisor at every college I talked to told me their college was the best --- I realized they couldn't all be right.
So I realized that whatever training I got from whatever college or other source would ultimately be tested the day I started slinging out my resume asking people to hire me as a programmer. That led me to the realization that I should ask those people their opinion on training before I got the training so that I'd know that my training would be good (BS in computer science from a particular university in my state, though admittedly that kind of training might not be best in today's climate). I had that figured out before I finished 11th grade and don't consider myself a genius for doing so -- it simply makes sense. It's why I took my first software job before I walked the stage and made decent coin from day 1.
And working full time all through college left me with little college debt. Like Leaning Right, I appreciate my software work a lot more because it's a lot better than the grueling hot grocery warehouse work I did in college.