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"Are you sure you want to accept years of no income so you can learn lots of stuff that will be irrelevant in the real world, and for the privilege, take on $100,000 in student loans in hopes of finding a $50,000 job? ..."
That is a valid argument, if they are going to a prestige college or out of state, in a major that leads to $50k jobs.
I went in debt to the tune of $17k over 4 years of college and made far more than that my first year out.
I went to a local college and applied for every grant and scholarhip around. I recieved a few, which added up to $15k total. Many people never apply... Without them though, it would have been $32k for the 4 years, and I still made more than that my first year out.
That said, there were a lot of fields I looked at, and did not go into because there was a glut in the market, or because the pay would have not been enough. I picked industrial technology, because it is a field dominated by baby boomers, who are retiring in droves, and the demand is tremendous, and the pay is good as well.
All that said, if I had been making 1/2 of what I am now, and happy in my field, I'd of never went to school. What sent me to school was the fact that I was burnt out in my old field, and had no obstacles to going to school. If I had been married with a kid, to a woman in the same income range or less, I'd of never went, regardless of what I was making.
