"Whereas their parents experienced rising wages over their lifetime, Generation X may not. So college may have been a bad investment"
AAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!
By summer of next year I will have five years undergrad, four years grad school with two graduate degrees, and a few dozen thousand in debt accrued. Will I have a job that pays more than 40k a year? Probably not. Does it bother me? For all practical purposes, not particularly... I've been poverty-stricken all my life so it ain't like I'll be cuttin' down on the caviar and SUV purchases or anything...
I'll pay it off eventually, I reckon, if the cigarettes don't kill me off first... Would be nice to look forward to a stable job market in my field... Do I wish I had it to do all over again? Yep. Would've made better choices.
I speculate that's what alot of GenXers are going through these days-- regret...
I'm thinking about switching to unfiltered Camels for just that reason ;)