▲ 249 ▼ My student loan is gaining interest while I'm in school but I'm not allowed to start paying it off yet (lemmy.world) submitted 3 days ago by FenrirIII@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world 79 comments fedilink hide all child comments What is this horseshit? Almost $2k in interest this year and it will not even let me throw money against the principal.
[–] Switorik@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago (2 children) What do you consider good job? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago (2 children) Pays for a house and kids. I wasn't able to finish and with the kinds of jobs I can get I can't afford a car and struggle with bills even with frugal spending. Even the traded require postsecondary training you usuially gotta pay for permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] architect 1 point 2 days ago* I can promise you you don’t even need a high school diploma to make more than most Americans permalink fedilink source parent [–] Switorik@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 days ago Fair enough. I believe college education stopped being a requirement and more of a hindrance around 2010. The pay didn't keep up with the loans and education requirements. Nepotism is now the best way to get a high paying job. permalink fedilink source parent [–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 point 3 days ago In the US, I'd say good health insurance, retirement benefits, and fair pay. Bonus points of it's something you enjoy, but that's more rare I think. I'm as close now as I've ever been to checking all of those boxes, pay is a little low for what I do, but liveable with a little extra. I got my degree about 13 years ago. I did get a job about 6 months out of school with a livable wage, bad retirement, good health insurance, but I didn't like it. Took a little over nine years for an opportunity to come up that I applied for and got. Maybe could have moved sooner had I put in effort, but my job now isn't directly related to my degree and I got it because I know a guy that got my foot in the door. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago (2 children) Pays for a house and kids. I wasn't able to finish and with the kinds of jobs I can get I can't afford a car and struggle with bills even with frugal spending. Even the traded require postsecondary training you usuially gotta pay for permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] architect 1 point 2 days ago* I can promise you you don’t even need a high school diploma to make more than most Americans permalink fedilink source parent [–] Switorik@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 days ago Fair enough. I believe college education stopped being a requirement and more of a hindrance around 2010. The pay didn't keep up with the loans and education requirements. Nepotism is now the best way to get a high paying job. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] architect 1 point 2 days ago* I can promise you you don’t even need a high school diploma to make more than most Americans permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Switorik@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 days ago Fair enough. I believe college education stopped being a requirement and more of a hindrance around 2010. The pay didn't keep up with the loans and education requirements. Nepotism is now the best way to get a high paying job. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 point 3 days ago In the US, I'd say good health insurance, retirement benefits, and fair pay. Bonus points of it's something you enjoy, but that's more rare I think. I'm as close now as I've ever been to checking all of those boxes, pay is a little low for what I do, but liveable with a little extra. I got my degree about 13 years ago. I did get a job about 6 months out of school with a livable wage, bad retirement, good health insurance, but I didn't like it. Took a little over nine years for an opportunity to come up that I applied for and got. Maybe could have moved sooner had I put in effort, but my job now isn't directly related to my degree and I got it because I know a guy that got my foot in the door. permalink fedilink source parent