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[–] [email protected] 36 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

Also:

  • Don't rush having children, get some financial stability first!
  • Don't rush having children, get some financial stability first!
  • Don't rush having children, get some financial stability first!
  • Don't rush having children, get some financial stability first!
  • Don't rush having children, get some financial stability first!
  • Don't rush having children, get some financial stability first!
  • Don't rush having children, get some financial stability first!
  • Don't rush having children, get some financial stability first!
  • Don't rush having children, get some financial stability first!
  • By the way, this rule only applied to people of color. By the age of 30, you supposed to have at least 4 children. Now tell me where are my grandchildren?
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago

Never felt so targeted in my fucking life.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (7 children)

This is how it went down for me:

My senior year, they herded us into the auditorium for a 45 minute presentation on how you would be a total failure and will be scrubbing toilets for all of your days if you didn't sign up for college RIGHT NOW. After that, you were put in line for the recruiter where you'd pick your school and your major. When it came my turn, I told them that I wasn't sure and was thinking of trade school. The recruiter said "oh." and sent me back to class. The school seemed to care a lot less about my academic well being after that exchange. The Military recruiters were VERY interested in how I was doing though. Being a teen during the 00's was wild.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

I didn't have that experience, but it was a given for anyone in honors/AP classes that you'd head to college--they didn't ask if you wanted to. My grades weren't that great, but weighted my GPA was still alright. My guidance counselor asked if I wanted in state or out of state; public or private; small, medium, or large; and what I'd like to major in. After I said in state, she talked about a state-funded scholarship that was really easy to get 75% of my tuition covered. So, I went to the local university and majored in the first thing I blabbed about in that meeting. I basically signed my name in a couple of places and I was off to college. Ended up fine for me, but it could have gone much worse if I was a few years younger.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Very controlling and didn't care about what we wanted in my experience. Wanted to be an aerospace engineer. Got a great scholarship to the school I wanted to go to, told me they'd disown me and not help if I moved out of state and ever failed. Showed where all income was coming from as it was Kettering University so with the scholarship and their program was set up for co-op, so you'd do school and internships (they help set you up with them too) back and forth through till you finish your degree. Nope.

Instead just wanted to put doubts in my mind and force me to go to a local University with the promise they would help me pay for it instead. Told me if I joined the Marines or such to get school paid for they would be pissed as well, my Uncle told my mother that a lot of people do well working after getting out of the military as they often get first dibs on positions, my mother didn't talk to her brother for months.

They never paid a dime to the school they wanted me to go to, I never liked their programs.. and when I did finally graduate had between $30-40,000 in debt.. no internship experience and just kept trying to work in IT with the experience I had built without a degree. (No one accepted applications in other fields)

Maybe someone has agreed to hire me for having a degree, but really all of them have seemed to hire me because I had years of experience working and suppoting the software/hardware they needed/had. After all, the experience they want isn't taught in any class I took to get the degree.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We were sold a false bill of goods and then got blamed for it.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The over-gay is sadly true 😢

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Don't diminish yourself! You're beautiful the way you are.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If somehow I was able to purchase a house where I live (was never possible), it would have gone up in value more then the money I have been earning working my jobs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Throw in the $168,000 in rent I've paid since college and that would have turned into quite a bit of equity

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

You got so woke since going to college!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The money I spent on my education could have bought the roof, a ton of bootstraps to pull up, but probably not the electricity. :(

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm just saying if mortgages were treated like student loans we'd actually be in a better place as a society.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Students would love this, you'd be able to discharge the debt via bankruptcy!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Banks would fucking love this. They would be salivating at the idea that home loans can’t be discharged via bankruptcy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Being that most of the people who didn't/couldn't pay their student loans did pay rent... The banks would have gotten their money and many of the people would have equity. I'm not saying there wouldn't have been defaults, but I get what they meant

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That was made the case because you can't repossess an education (yet). I don't necessarily agree with it but I also don't actually have a problem with banks not being allowed to seize private homes within certain limitations.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I love taking my twice graduated college educated ass to job postings for my field and being offered $60k CAD for highly skilled work that requires both a bachelor's and about 5-10 years of experience to pay for my $40-50k worth of education. It's great!

I've been in the job market for a while and apart from not having a bachelors degree, I have most of the certifications and experience needed. But I did the math, I am unable to afford my bills (excluding things like fuel for my car and food for the table) on anything less than around $65-70k. I don't ask for much for everything else, but I generally need at least $75k a year to survive without starving or going bankrupt.

Life is expensive and it keeps getting more expensive, but the wages I saw posted over 10 years ago when I graduated, are the same wages I see now for the same or similar work. Since the cost of everything has increased significantly over that time, I just move on to other job postings.

Don't mention salary in the post? I'm not interested. Don't have an option for full time remote? No thanks. I don't want to spend hours of my life every week in traffic, spending hundreds of dollars a month on fuel, just so you can look me in the face and say "you look tired".... Yeah, because I'm forced to be here and I'm not able to do this work from home.

What is the difference if I go to the office and use these online/cloud tools, versus doing the same from home? I don't understand.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Americans are the poorest people I know with the most disposable income that seems to buy them nothing.

Come to Europe. You will be poorer and somewhat miserable, instead of regular poor and stressed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm not sure that sounds much better lmao

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

The misery is the other Europeans telling us to stop smiling so much lol

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What is the difference if I go to the office and use these online/cloud tools, versus doing the same from home?

Control.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Exactly. It's basically "tell me you don't trust me as an employee, without telling me you don't trust me as an employee".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

too real for me

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