That $100,000 debt load? Pay that down as FAST as you possibly can. Whatever job you get, no matter how much you make, you live off pork and beans if you have to, but *get rid of that debt*.
Otherwise, it’ll be a monkey on your back forever.
Best of luck. You aren’t the only one in this situation, and I think when the history of this era is written, the universities are going to have a LOT of explaining to do as to why they crippled kids with this kind of debt right out of the box. It really is disgusting.
“You aren’t the only one in this situation, and I think when the history of this era is written, the universities are going to have a LOT of explaining to do as to why they crippled kids with this kind of debt right out of the box. It really is disgusting.”
I can’t agree more. The stories I read simply boggle my mind. When I graduated college, I had a wide-open blank page future waiting for me to help write it...not a 500 dollar a month payment book with 20 years of pages.
I didn’t live well and/or party much then, I was pretty broke and lived at M+P’s, but it did pay off.
The government-educational complex is a worse threat to America than the military-industrial complex or the medical industry could ever be.
I don’t know what advice I could give this person at this point.