alan1
Gold Member
What year did you graduate?
That is irrelevant.
I know how this works, I tell you the year, then you tell me that college cost less back then, then I tell you that wages were less back then.
But I'll go ahead and give you this.....I graduated 3 months after the birth of my second child and my wife graduated 6 months before the birth of our second child. So, there you have it, a married couple with a child (then children) managed to work their way through college debt free. Granted, it took me more than 4 years because I couldn't attend college full time, but I was also busy supporting a family at the same time. Of course, I wasn't supporting that family by myself, my wife also worked her ass off while she was attending college.
Well if you know how it works, then you know college relative to wages say... 30 years ago, was very diffrent to college today
Btw, I graduated college last year. I had a heap of scholarships, worked full time and went part time to offset the costs and still managed to walk away with around 20k in debt. I was honestly happy to have only 20k, because I have friends who owe more on their student loans then most people owe on their mortgage.
And 20k used to buy a house.
I've heard the horror stories of kids graduating with astronomical debt, I'm glad you dodged that bullet.