Posted on 08/30/2018 9:12:49 AM PDT by 11th_VA
For Alexandria Butler-McDow, 28, going to university didn’t provide the freedom and financial security she'd hoped for. After graduating with an associate’s degree from the California Culinary Academy (CCA) in San Francisco, CA, in 2008, Butler-McDow struggled to find a job that would allow her to support herself and her disabled mother while also paying off her enormous student loan bill.
Hopeful that a more advanced degree would help her make more money and better manage her debt, Butler-McDow went on to pursue a bachelor’s degree in culinary nutrition, concentrating on clinical dietetics at Johnson and Wales University (JWU) in Providence, RI. By the time she had finished her second degree, Butler-McDow was even deeper in debt.
Now, nearly four years after graduating with her second degree, Butler-McDow (better known as Chef Alexandria at Better Taste Productions) is a Los Angeles-based chef and culinary consultant focusing on nutrition and education — and she is still six figures in debt. Though she has defaulted on her loans and deferred some of her payments, the end of this ordeal is still out of her reach. “We are sold the notion that getting an education is what will improve our socioeconomic standing,” Butler-McDow told Refinery29. “My degrees were supposed to bring me out of poverty but they’ve just anchored me.” ...
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What happened to pay as you go?
She's actively looking for work and was scooping ice cream at one point. Many of these stories are just a result of stupid left wing thinking (thinking? I'm being generous!), but this one struck me as a little more understandable, in a sad sort of way.
Get some sponsors and start a cooking
show with a little different twist
than what the other shows have.
San Fran does have great seafood.
(or had when I was there in the
late 60’s).
And now you know it doesn't. There's your education, sugar. Now, make me a sammich.
So the poor girl is $100K poorer and is still apparently as unemployable as she was before.
I don't know the whole story and I probably never will but it seems odd she would go into debt for so much money in order to obtain obscure degrees that are "fringe" at best.
Our young people are sold a bill of goods with these college degrees. It is drummed into them that they must get a degree in order to get a job and that is just not so. It is much better to get into the workforce and learn your skills that way. If you want to go into night school to get a degree while you are working (as I did), then all the power to you.
So many people are going to college that degrees are not valued like they used to be. Seeing a college degree on a resume does not impress me at all unless it was at a respected university and/or pointed out that they were awarded scholarships based on academic performance.
It used to be that a college degree meant something and almost guaranteed employment as it was relatively rare back in the day. Now everybody's got one so it's nothing special anymore.
I would think that advising a young woman to get married rather than going $100K in debt for a degree she can't get a good paying job with, is entirely on topic.
Her youtube vids tell you all you need to know.
VICTIM!
I understand that she was misled, Hold the misdoers to account, and stop blaming me.
Leave LA and stop smoking the liberal crack!
cioppino! yum!
Reading is fundamental:
"my total debt after CCA was about $20,000"
A degree does hold sway with todays gate keepers.
About as much sway as 38 years of work experience.
She is whiny privileged thing, but was SOLD A BAG OF BS
Don’t forget the bottom tier private school Johnson and Wales University. 81% acceptance rate.
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My 35 year old step daughter is in roughly the same boat, and she was warned, but “knew better.”
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Guys running Vending machines make more money than she does, but you have to negotiate contracts to stick machines into the places where the educated folks can’t do math and are willing to but 5 Cokes a day at $1.50 ab pop.
Stick some snacks in the machine and label them “heart healthy” “fat free”
Heck sell them a bottle of tap water in a biodegradable bottle for $1.75
Book learning must work up a lot of thirst LOL.
A degree in Celtic studies? What did her parents think of that? Who is going to hire her with that kind of degree?
Hopefully she would be receptive to what Dave Ramsey teaches, it can change her life
Someone who can make a living on a single college degree majored in engineering, accounting or something with real world application, therefore they live and work in the real world.
Not that the food industry doesn’t have a real-world application but the reality is that cooking decent nutritious food isn’t that difficult.
Certainly, it doesn’t pay to the extent that you could pay off $100K in debt in a few years.
My niece got a Ph.D. in Physical therapy and is paying off $100k but she’s paid well in a deild that has real demand.
All that “schoolin”, and you are still stupid......
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Dave is right about financial responsibility, but way wrong about eternity.
Well, it’s not, dummy.
Can't argue with that breathtaking example of logical reasoning.
Meanwhile, I still hold that the nation derives more benefit from middle-class women marrying young and debt-free, and raising three or more kids to be productive citizens, than from a woman going $100K into debt for a worthless degree.
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