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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
A partner of mine has now sent 4 kids through St. Olaf, a private college in northern Minnesota, at the low low cost of just over $50K/yr.
Dude's spent just a tick shy of a million friggen dollars on goddamn liberal arts degrees from a college that nobody outside of northern Minnesota gives a shit about. His kids all had full rides from Truman State but he footed that bill anyway. So in essence, he set about 10 years worth of take-home income on fire. Can you imagine that? The guy's going to have a 30 year career and 10 years of it just up and vanished.
It is the single most absurd thing I've ever heard. How the hell can you even begin to teach your children about responsible decisionmaking when you let them do that? Now 2 of them are still 'finding themselves' and one of them is a paramedic...y'know, that thing you can do with a 1 yr certification course.
These decisions are hard but at the same time, some parents are enabling their children to make pretty staggeringly stupid ones.
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Goddamn.
My best friend grew up in a poor family. Very poor. Like his Mom came to this country and they lived in a trailer as a kid kind of poor.
My buddy didn't make any excuses. He went to community college and worked full-time to do what he could. Graduated with his associates, got some scholarships and finished his last 2 years at a D1 school in the ROTC program. College paid for, masters degree paid for and now he's serving in the Air Force in a technical role making 85k as a 28 year old with an education diverse enough to land him a good job damn near anywhere if he chooses to get out of the military.
More kids needs to work hard like him.