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In reply to the discussion: Read a post that said DU sucks. [View all]Sympthsical
(8,935 posts)My partner is in his mid-40s and still has loans from his PharmD. I didn't pay my loans off until well into my 30s. So yep, you and I had similar experiences.
What gets me about all this debt as well is this response: "Well, if you couldn't afford it, you shouldn't have done it!"
Like it was much of an option. It was absolutely drilled into us that you needed college to be successful and have a good standard of living. High school was completely structured towards getting into a college. Society was pressuring teenagers who don't know how to balance a checking account to sign for loans for tens of thousands of dollars. I remember when I was a college freshman. No one told me, "Oh yeah, you'll be paying for this for the next twenty or thirty years."
And now, we just accept it. "Oh yeah. I'm going to be paying this for the next twenty or thirty years." As if that's totally normal. The system isn't the problem. No, no. The people getting screwed by it are the problem. They're so demanding!
Oh yeah, absolute RED. I'm all over this thread because it pissed me off so hard to see this completely oblivious attitude towards what the world has been like for decades. Decades, and people still haven't noticed.