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Want to Afford a Home Quickly? Here are the Best College Degrees for Homeownership
New York Times ^ | 07/10/2017 | By MICHAEL KOLOMATSKY

Posted on 07/10/2017 12:02:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: PA Engineer
They would have do relocate to Midland-Odessa or be willing to travel off hitch on their own dime. The work is there.

I thought that the Dakotas was where all the new oil was.

41 posted on 07/10/2017 1:26:55 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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To: Gay State Conservative

My daughter got her JD and passed the CA Bar.

Starting salary: $79K and had a raise in the first 6 months.


42 posted on 07/10/2017 1:39:42 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: central_va

OK, OK, OK...

Clearly you have never stared your own business by your own lack of supporting argument.

Who needs $100,000 to start a business at age 18?


43 posted on 07/10/2017 1:44:38 PM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: G Larry

Wasn’t the University of California system back in the 1960’s tuition free for qualifying State residents? I seem to remember that for some reason. Any sort of college education outside the Ivy League used to be affordable to families with a bread winner with a decent job, or with student loans that didn’t leave the borrowers crippled with debt for a couple decades. We are so lucky to have been born when we were.


44 posted on 07/10/2017 1:49:00 PM PDT by katana
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

My daughter who will graduate with a ChemE degree next spring calls that a Mrs degree.


45 posted on 07/10/2017 1:52:11 PM PDT by edhawk
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I did some of that years ago. Then everyone took the seminars thinking they would get rich quick and too many buyers flooded the market.


46 posted on 07/10/2017 2:00:39 PM PDT by doug from upland (Mayflower Hotel --- hotel of choice for Dem officials and their hookers)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The competition to get into pharmacy program is unreal from what I have heard.


47 posted on 07/10/2017 2:01:56 PM PDT by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Pharmacy is one they forgot.

Pharmacy is ripe for disruption IMO. Any drugs that arrive at the store ready to consume could be easily dispensed. Would not be surprised to see drug companies put vending machines in clinics and hospitals.

48 posted on 07/10/2017 2:09:07 PM PDT by IamConservative (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Here are the Best College Degrees for Homeownership?

Wait! Don’t tell me! Let me guess: “Underwater Basket Weaving” and “[fillintheblank] Studies” aren’t in the top ten, right?


49 posted on 07/10/2017 2:11:36 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

South Florida import/export= drug dealer
No degree necessary


50 posted on 07/10/2017 2:26:06 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: SeekAndFind

Plenty of chemical engineers in Houston out of work or are about to lose their jobs.


51 posted on 07/10/2017 2:32:37 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Amen, amen, amen.


52 posted on 07/10/2017 2:36:58 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Gay State Conservative
The biggest play right now is the Permian Basin. They just can't manufacture enough equipment for the demand there. Last I checked, the rig count was around 500.
53 posted on 07/10/2017 2:48:52 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media and Shariah Socialism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No community organizers ...pffft....


54 posted on 07/10/2017 2:50:56 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (FREEP U, Schmucky O'Putz!)
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To: SeekAndFind

36 months of military service qualifies you for a VA loan under the post 9/11 GI Bill.


55 posted on 07/10/2017 3:06:01 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: Gay State Conservative

More than that in many areas. A former colleague’s husband graduated from pharmacy school three years ago; he started at $115K a year as a retail pharmacist in New Hampshire. And here in VA, I know a young man who just graduated and he’s making $110K as a pharmacist for a grocery chain. Asked him what he was going to do with his money. “Start paying off my student loans,” he replied.

I’m a big believer that student loan interest rates should be pegged to the demand for that degree. So, someone who’s an engineering, IT or accounting major would have an interest rate of zero, or around one percent. Meanwhile, someone majoring in gender or ethnic studies would have an interest rate equivalent to someone with a 500 credit score buying a used car—25% or higher. We have enough people with worthless degrees in the labor market; maybe the confiscatory interest rates would be enough to steer a few towards a viable degree and career.

On the other hand, many of these young SJWs don’t have enough brain power to major in anything but gender studies, sociology, or art history. And most of them figure if push comes to shove, they’ll get mom and dad to pay it off, while they’re living in their parents’ basement.


56 posted on 07/10/2017 3:13:34 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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... you go to college for 4 years and spend about $150,000, so 4 years later you can get a "good" job to buy a house within 4 years.

Where'd you get your data? Katie Couric?

You go to a 2-year junior college, spend about $20,000 to get an Associate's degree, then transfer to a 4-year for the last 2-years to get your Bachelor's degree at a good public college, spend maybe an additional $40,000 (no dormitories; you save money by staying home). Text books? Buy them used.

57 posted on 07/10/2017 3:16:46 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: doorgunner69

#12 Penny - Molecules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUQVn2d-FBE

She has it figured out.


58 posted on 07/10/2017 3:37:48 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Women go to college not only to gain security in some degree, but also to find a suitable male to marry.


59 posted on 07/10/2017 3:53:39 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: null and void

Ah! A spiritual engineer! ;-)


60 posted on 07/10/2017 3:55:18 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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