Ever think about the $$$ you lost enjoying this hobby.

[Hamlet]

Do you know anyone in their twenties trying to find a job these days without a college degree?

 

There are some decent alternative paths to college, like the trades, but if you don't follow one of those, you are still absolutely better off with paying for a college degree, even in a low-demand major.

 

Most young people without a degree will have no path out of the sub-$15/hr job market. Most of Corporate America requires a college degree as the price of entry these days.

 

An awful lot of older workers are working jobs that they couldn't get as a new employee without a degree.

 

Money spent on education, especially a 4 year college degree is more and more a waste of far too much money. For too many kids its a four year all expenses paid vacation. Not all kids of course, but even those of us who didn't literally party 24/7 didn't exactly get our parents money's worth. Parents have to evaluate and discuss honestly with their kids as to the best use for the 100s of 1000s Of dollars a "education " now costs.

 

This is certainly top of mind for me too, with a (currently) three-year old!

 

My own four-year experience? In some ways worth it, in other ways, not. I definitely feel with hindsight, there are alternative paths I could have taken that could have been a more efficient use of the funds spent. All the more imperative to make note of as college costs now make my outlay from the past look laughable.

[Vikingreed]

"2 copies of NYX 3 that I picked up out of a 50 cent bin at WW Philly last year."

 

 

Wow, what the heck?!?!?!

That is a crazy find!