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>>55699254
did multiple people warn you about majoring in something useless?

>>55699254
many such cases

>>55699254
What'd you do that for?

>>55699266
not really, no scholarships for the field, that was my big clue I guess.

>>55699274
because "do what you love and the money will follow"

>>55699254
>didnt just go to community college before transferring to a stage school
wtf is wrong with you people, unironically?

>>55699293
I would have been better of not going to college at all actually. I was a stupid kid.

>>55699288
Go on OP, tell us what the degree is.

>>55699304
"B.S. Media Arts & Animation"

>>55699304
50 dollars for Cuisine or Design

>>55699328
Fuck, I do art for a living too bro what went wrong.
Going to the industry was the mistake I bet

>>55699328
>>55699349
AI has already completely invalidated your degree. Sucks.

>>55699328
Brutal, "B.S." is right.

>>55699328
lol

I work a painting job that started at 18 and came with health insurance what the heck did you do anon

>>55699254
I got a useless geology degree completely paid for with FAFSA and then I neeted for 10 years. Now I do retard caretaking for 14.50 for 100 hours per week. So much winning

I made more than $18 an hour delivering pizza

How can you even find a job paying so little that's related to any college degree?

>>55699388
>>55699371
>>55699402
>>55699394
but wait, there's more. the particular school I went to is considered a scam school by most now and it's closed, doesn't even exist anymore. so it's like all those years are erased by a black hole, except the debt of course. kek. Luckily the employers asking for a degree don't know about this, because of course the degree is worthless and they don't really give a shit.

>>55699501
Giga-brutal. I actually feel sorry for you OP, zero cap.

>>55699665
yeah, starting to feel depressed just talking about it, but just wanted to vent

>>55699328
You see, you being in $250k in debt for this hurts more than just you. You paid for your fart-sniffing professors to live in million dollar houses and buy fair trade coffee and drive Teslas. You were scammed. This is why we need reform.

>>55699822
If I was scammed for 250k and bankruptcy wasn't an option I would start minecrafting people

>>55699501
Oh lol, you got double scammed by actual scammers who deserve to be stripped of tenure barred from higher education forever.

>>55699880
>>55699919
>>55699904
>You were scammed.
pretty much, the worst part is how it sticks with you, the toxic feeling never goes away. I finished school long ago yet it still bothers me, there's some guy in the comments on the petition page that went to the school in the 80's and is still thinking about how he got scammed. The people that run schools like this should be put in jail.

>>55699328
this helps me sleep at night, what an idiot you are

>>55699982
what an idiot I was indeed, would have been better off doing literally nothing.

>>55699328
jfc dude what did you expect? I regret even getting a degree but at least I had the sense to do finance

>>55700076
I thought if I really worked hard then I would get a good job paying a good salary. Little did I know you don't even need a degree to do any of that and you can learn it all on your own, granted when I went there the internet wasn't like it is today. If it was then I would have been able to research and avoid the scam entirely.

>>55699254
I went to college for 8 years and got in $160k debt ($180k by the time I paid off in 2 years). And now I'm making around $200k annually. You should get a refund.

>$250k debt
>$36k/yr
Meh, I got $88k debt and made about the same, but managed to promote quickly and was making $100k total comp in 4 years. Paid off my debt in that four years, also bought a house, and started buying bitcoin. You fucked up taking all that debt but stay on IBR and try to climb the career ladder as fast as you can until you too can afford 5 make it stacks of your preferred crypto.

>>55700128
gambling on crypto is my only hope now, hopefully it's not too late.

>>55699501
Bro why aren't you on the class action lawsuit? Those debts are going to be forgiven.

>>55700108
Yeah fair enough, degrees are an absolute scam now you can learn anything you need to online for free and lnd a job now just doing certificates, but especially art you just needed to build a portfolio.

>>55699501
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>>55699501
>>55699501
>petition signature dated 2023
>addressed to President Trump
Are the parties in this lawsuit election deniers?

>>55699254
Making $18/hr would take you 13888 hrs of your life to repay the $250k debt.

It hurt but it is not the end of the world.

Btw I had meet doctor quitting their career, pharmacist quitting their career, engineer mass quitting their career too, they are working a lot more harder to get the career, but they are all happy to dump it completely, without any recourse, without any compensation too. That is too funny to me. Freedom is priceless to them!

Unironically got into trades, I did fiance but switch to Audio/Visual installation 1 year ago, just got a promotion to $43/hr. Finally feels like I might actually make it even with the crippling debt.

>>55700325
Ironically, you might likely make it if that were the case, especially in trading, if your investment is in the right direction, or else end up owing more debt than ever. From the look of the market, now is a profitable time to invest.

>>55700276
>Making $18/hr would take you 13888 hrs of your life to repay the $250k debt
That's like 579 days to work with the hope of paying the debt, which seems quite impossible because the cost of living is excluded along with tax, rent, and daily expenditure. This will most likely take 5 years to pay off. This is part of the reason many consider trading as an alternative source to make passive income.

This is absolutely slavery, huh

I am 32 and I have never kissed a girl.

is it worth going back to school for an engineering masters?
I've been working for 6 years and going back to school sounds enjoyable and like a good distraction to let my bags appreciate while I'm distracted. I think I could upgrade my future earnings in my field, too.
but I have no idea how I'm going to get 3 letters of recommendation minimum. I'm sure most all my professors forgot about me. and how can I ask my bosses at work? pretty sure they'd rather have me working and might even start shuffling me out the door.
I'm also pursuing the part-time degree meme but I don't really want to work and go to school at the same time.

>>55700527
is getting your masters going to let you get paid significantly more money? if yes then go, if no then don't.

>>55700527
Literally just pay people to lie on a letter of recommendation

>>55700544
would probably give me a ~$20k/year upgrade I think. but, so would the equivalent in years of experience.
higher cost but sounds much more chill than my current life. I'm not strapped for cash. plus maybe it would make a PhD program easier to get into?
>>55700551
any experience doing this?

>>55699254
You are now a real man.

>>55699402
It's a meme degree, oversaturated to the point where employers see it as doing you a favor to employee you because "it's something you love doing"
Like archeology or anthropology or basically anything science related with rocks. I forget the word not a geologist I think. I don't know I didn't go to college. But in also not 6 figures in debt

Lmao imagine a world where faggots like OP got peer pressured to get into debt or they'll be seen as dumb

>>55700527
God I missed the ironic Boogaloo memes

>>55700793
Top half of your post sounded like you were speaking from firsthand experience.
Bottom half revealed you to be just an ignorant loser.
Shame.

>>55700836
How's that debt going fren? What's compound interest mean? Can you show me? I'm just a simple retard with zero debt but I want to learn

>>55700847
I also have no debt but you're a very nasty case of sour grapes, I would hate to share a jobsite with the likes of you.

>>55700372
Stop being delusional. He will definitely get rekt if he invests in crypto.

>>55700913
Kek
I doubt if he's competent enough.

>>55700349
Not far from the truth. The space is full of potential risk, and for one to profit, he must be updated at all times.
Safest bet remains btc, ETH, and link.

>>55699254
>>55699328
how on earth is 4 years $250k in debt. I did two majors, Computer Science and Economics and only graduated with $18k in debt

>>55700937
That's common with meme coins, not with those that have sound utility. They are profitable assets that one can invest in; a good one holding up so well is XTP. Snm and Rndr are also good ones I expect to pick up. NFA

>>55701010
I don't think link should be on that list. No doubt BTC is the safest and best store of value, and for eth, it remains the king of alts, and the possibility of a comeback remains certain.

>>55700386
I'm 28 and I never had sex.

>>55699328
Yeah sure, post your degree LARPing nigger
>>55701410
Go to Las Vegas and get an escort anon, either that or go to Europe and head to a brothel, thank me later anon

>>55699254
I didn't go to college, didn't go into debt and make 18.50/hr.

>t. small town motel overnights chad

I went into trades, spent ten years building vape and TMobile stores with a few groups, got my chips in the security field by moving there and doing low voltage in homes for about three years. Did televisions, server racks, lutron automation, garage doors, some commercial.
Move to a new state and make a move on a Forklift Technician job, score that for $25/hr. Master techs make around $40/hr. Field techs even more. Crown or Toyota certification yields more leverage.
0 debt, and I'm the most hirable person I know.

>>55699328
It would be worth it if the industry weren't riddled with nepotism, but unfortunately it is. Sorry, anon, I'm in the same position (with no student debt).

>>55699254
Even if you're making $18 per hour, be a wise froglet, save money, and spare some bucks for crypto – it could be a life and wife changing. Look into those alts in the DePIN sector like Golem, Peaq, Bloxmove, and Iotex. You're welcome anon.

Let that thread be a lesson to other readers.
Only get a degree if you NEED to get a degree in the field you want to go.

>>55699254
>go into $0 dollars worth of debt for $18 an hour
House: Paid
Cars: Paid
Shitcoins: Acquired and waiting
Boomer Rocks: Suicide stacked
ETFs: DCA'd

You had your chance to take the flyover pill, but now it's too late

>>55702553
>i just went into trades to start, no education needed
you mean daddy gave you an easy in

>>55704126
which is literally anything that isn't a wagie joke

OP is a faggot

>>55699904
Be careful, feds know what minecraft means.

>>55699254
This isn’t Dave Ramsey, please go away.

>>55700188
My spouse got hers completely forgiven for attending a scam college. It took some years but just a few months ago was wiped and REIMBURSED what was paid.

>>55699254
I unironically learned to code to makr $15 an hour before losing my job to H1b niggers

>>55702553
Based low volt chad, secuirty is easy money. These jabronis are missing out

>>55702969

It's not nepotism, it's all of the fucking third worlders stealing all of the consulting / auditing jobs

>>55700386
I kissed my friends moms pussy when I was 17.

>>55699328
there's always weird fetish porn bro

>>55699254

I went to the same school op and for the same degree. I hate to be a boomer but you need to work on your reel/portfolio. Games or Film is incredibly hard to be employed in(as im sure you're aware), and it takes almost autistic dedication to remain in the field. My first five years in the video game industry was hell as an animator. I got laid off three times, had to pick up a few retail jobs. I never stopped working on my portolio though. I'm now making 170k at a well known video game company after being in the field for a decade. I dont know exactly what you went for but stop crying on this board and start working on the reel. Stop being a lazy faggot.

>>55700527
Letters of Recommendation are such bullshit. Even the undergraduate entry for 1.5 out of the 3 colleges I'm looking at (one strictly requires it, another strongly recommends it, and the other made no comment about it) requires at least one letter of recommendation from high school teachers and counselors I haven't seen for many years. From my research, your goal is to ask basically everybody and hope you get lucky. If you don't score a single person, then bribe somebody I guess, because there's no shame in cheating a system that's fucking garbage in the first place.

imagine falling for collage meme in 2023 all the lies of the matrix already exposed.
you should have got PHD(pimping hoes degree)
and got into hustler university

>>55710640
good morning sir
pls tell how to hustle the bobs and vagene pls sir

>>55699254
this is me except with law school

>become a lawyer
>earn under 6 figures

it's over