Sooooo. Middle aged people? Or are we now dealing with those going into retirement.
I think I’m technically “middle aged” now… No idea how that happened… But I know better than to think you can work your way through college and not come out the other side with a crushing amount of debt…
My country subsidized my education, and provided me with a loan to attend college. I finally paid it off some 20-ish years after I started college.
I’ve never seen a six-figure salary, despite probably being owed one, but the top rate I can find for my vocation in my local area is around $80k/yr or about 50-60k USD/yr.
Yet, if I go to the USA, and get the exact same job, I can make $80k+ USD, which would easily push me over $100k/yr in my country’s currency.
If you guessed I’m from Canada, you may have looked at my username, and noted my home Lemmy instance.
International students pay something like 5x what Canadian citizens do for college/uni (at least they did, the last time I checked), and my local provincial government set up a student assistance program, which provides loans to college/uni students.
I still walked out of college with over $40k in debt and this was in the mid 2000s. Costs have only gone up.
I support student loan forgiveness. It won’t help me at all, but I don’t really want anyone else to have to go through what I did trying to pay everything back.
A car is cheaper than most colleges.
That car starts at $110,000 USD, about the same as in-state cost of attendance in Michigan where the mustang is made and Nevada where Shelby is based
holy fuck ya’ll are getting ripped off so badly, even Mao Zedong had more empathy for his people lmao
This ad seems aimed at people who think you can still “work your way through college” without debt.
Sooooo. Middle aged people? Or are we now dealing with those going into retirement.
I think I’m technically “middle aged” now… No idea how that happened… But I know better than to think you can work your way through college and not come out the other side with a crushing amount of debt…
My country subsidized my education, and provided me with a loan to attend college. I finally paid it off some 20-ish years after I started college.
I’ve never seen a six-figure salary, despite probably being owed one, but the top rate I can find for my vocation in my local area is around $80k/yr or about 50-60k USD/yr.
Yet, if I go to the USA, and get the exact same job, I can make $80k+ USD, which would easily push me over $100k/yr in my country’s currency.
If you guessed I’m from Canada, you may have looked at my username, and noted my home Lemmy instance.
International students pay something like 5x what Canadian citizens do for college/uni (at least they did, the last time I checked), and my local provincial government set up a student assistance program, which provides loans to college/uni students.
I still walked out of college with over $40k in debt and this was in the mid 2000s. Costs have only gone up.
I support student loan forgiveness. It won’t help me at all, but I don’t really want anyone else to have to go through what I did trying to pay everything back.