Open comment to the idiots wanting their student loan debts paid off....
Yeah - I went to college, got a degree.
Assumed no debt. Worked restaurant jobs to get me through.
Got out - ta dah!!! The Democrat Authored/passed Windfalls Profits Tax destroyed the oil industry I studied to get in.
Welcome useless STEM degree. Welcome lots of debt to get back on feet.
Welcome retooling, re-education. Assume no more extra debt than I can afford.
Pay off debts. Go on to become a research lab monkey and top-notch analytical chemist.
Sorry you have so much debt. You should know, a LOT of us get handed a plate of shit sandwiches, and our only choice is mustard or mayo on those sandwiches.
Got a useless degree? Lots of debt?
Welcome to my life. Welcome to the lives of a lot of us.
Get jobs, re-tool, and get moving.
Maybe you don't get your dream job. But you can get those debts paid off.
That's right, Smarty pants, you won't be finding me sympathetic to the idea of giving your parents my money so that your loans can get paid off. Get you loving parents to pay them for you.
If ya think you REALLY have to have your hand in someone else's pocket to live...well, you can have this one-way ticket to Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, or China, where they do that sort of thing.
But be careful though - there are a lot of locals that won't tolerate you cutting in line ahead of them.
idk, you're being a bit hyperbolic; and it would be my guess you're just a bit jaded. If you have a stem and were working at a level it would be useful in oil, there is no reason your stem skills wouldn't transfer to absolutely anything else that requires a bit of education.
It seems more like their brainwashing has worked on you.
Maybe I'm a bit hyperbolic; then again, maybe not. I was talking subject matter - not absolute skill sets.
When I finally got a break and hired into a science lab - the one previous to me in that position for a few years...had nothing more than an art degree.
Very little of my geophysics /signal processing degree factored into the career I eventually did have. My logic, deductive/inductive thinking, and critical thinking skill sets? My work ethic?
Absolutely factored greatly.
However, no university offers a degree in "critical thinking". Many universities DO offer things useless things like "race and gender intersectional studies".
My point must have been missed on you. Allow me to fill in some cracks.
Most of those in my area of the country that are whining about outlandish amounts of student debt - have 2 points:
1 - a degree in a field with no job prospects (which I did have as well), and
2 - their willingness to finance their way via student loans, instead of going the harder route of scholarships, basic education grants, and good ol' fashioned hard work.
The first one can be just a function of bad luck (mine was). Others, though, absolutely CHOOSE to pursue a degree that's nothing more than an ego-stroking virtue signal; and are genuinely angry that there wasn't an open job market to match their degree.
When life gets painful enough, you begin looking for something that pays the bills. In most cases there are choices out there. However, they all come dressed in work clothes, with task lists and hard work as obligatory - something many people today just have no desire for.
The second choice is sheer ignorance and catering to the ego. This point is completely avoidable. Someone along the way - parents, friends, education system, or maybe all of them - failed to teach them that accumulating high debt cripples your chances at real success.
Yet, things like pay-as-you-go, and delayed gratification are so very out-of-style today.
But degrees one see no job prospects in, and debt, are things that can be overcome with a change in thinking and hard work.
There is absolutely NO reason to reach into MY pocket just because someone else made some really poor choices in life, and doesn't want to do the hard work of character development in overcoming those obstacles.
Open comment to the idiots wanting their student loan debts paid off....
Yeah - I went to college, got a degree.
Assumed no debt. Worked restaurant jobs to get me through.
Got out - ta dah!!! The Democrat Authored/passed Windfalls Profits Tax destroyed the oil industry I studied to get in.
Welcome useless STEM degree. Welcome lots of debt to get back on feet.
Welcome retooling, re-education. Assume no more extra debt than I can afford.
Pay off debts. Go on to become a research lab monkey and top-notch analytical chemist.
Sorry you have so much debt. You should know, a LOT of us get handed a plate of shit sandwiches, and our only choice is mustard or mayo on those sandwiches.
Got a useless degree? Lots of debt?
Welcome to my life. Welcome to the lives of a lot of us.
Get jobs, re-tool, and get moving.
Maybe you don't get your dream job. But you can get those debts paid off.
That's right, Smarty pants, you won't be finding me sympathetic to the idea of giving your parents my money so that your loans can get paid off. Get you loving parents to pay them for you.
If ya think you REALLY have to have your hand in someone else's pocket to live...well, you can have this one-way ticket to Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, or China, where they do that sort of thing.
But be careful though - there are a lot of locals that won't tolerate you cutting in line ahead of them.
idk, you're being a bit hyperbolic; and it would be my guess you're just a bit jaded. If you have a stem and were working at a level it would be useful in oil, there is no reason your stem skills wouldn't transfer to absolutely anything else that requires a bit of education.
It seems more like their brainwashing has worked on you.
Maybe I'm a bit hyperbolic; then again, maybe not. I was talking subject matter - not absolute skill sets.
When I finally got a break and hired into a science lab - the one previous to me in that position for a few years...had nothing more than an art degree.
Very little of my geophysics /signal processing degree factored into the career I eventually did have. My logic, deductive/inductive thinking, and critical thinking skill sets? My work ethic?
Absolutely factored greatly.
However, no university offers a degree in "critical thinking". Many universities DO offer things useless things like "race and gender intersectional studies".
My point must have been missed on you. Allow me to fill in some cracks.
Most of those in my area of the country that are whining about outlandish amounts of student debt - have 2 points:
1 - a degree in a field with no job prospects (which I did have as well), and
2 - their willingness to finance their way via student loans, instead of going the harder route of scholarships, basic education grants, and good ol' fashioned hard work.
The first one can be just a function of bad luck (mine was). Others, though, absolutely CHOOSE to pursue a degree that's nothing more than an ego-stroking virtue signal; and are genuinely angry that there wasn't an open job market to match their degree.
When life gets painful enough, you begin looking for something that pays the bills. In most cases there are choices out there. However, they all come dressed in work clothes, with task lists and hard work as obligatory - something many people today just have no desire for.
The second choice is sheer ignorance and catering to the ego. This point is completely avoidable. Someone along the way - parents, friends, education system, or maybe all of them - failed to teach them that accumulating high debt cripples your chances at real success.
Yet, things like pay-as-you-go, and delayed gratification are so very out-of-style today.
But degrees one see no job prospects in, and debt, are things that can be overcome with a change in thinking and hard work.
There is absolutely NO reason to reach into MY pocket just because someone else made some really poor choices in life, and doesn't want to do the hard work of character development in overcoming those obstacles.