My Husband And I Thought Education Was A Way Out Of Poverty. Now We’re $718,000 In Debt.

[Yayo Toure]

They can both find work with their degrees and live a comfortable life. A lot of information is missing here.

Yup. The most important being the dental school which he got into.

A state dental school you can do the 4 years at under 100k per year. Private institutions are much costlier, with the schools in NY and LA that mass produce dentists costing 600-750k for the four years. Tbh it's no great achievement to get into those schools since their class size is so large. IMO he should find another career path.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

This bytch is an English major but writes like shyt. No wonder she couldn't get a job in writing. SMH

 

[reasonable_doubter]

He could've gone into a mid-level practitioner career with his degree... pa, oc therapist, nurse, ap nurse, sp/lang pathologist, prosthetist,........ <----- all take less than 3 years with a bachelors and pay 80K+....

 

[desjardins]

Yea this has nothing to do with education
They are chasing status while at the same time trying to find themselves using advanced degrees as the mechanism ($$$$)
My wife and I both make 6 figures with Bachelors and no student debt (and no kids)
I owed $30k and paid it off like a car note, wife graduated with no loans
Being $700k+ in debt for one person to be a dentist is CRAZY, will the wife even have a career after all them loans?
This breh is in a horrible situation if this chick ever divorces and puts him on child support

 

[HabitualChiller]

For the people that say "go to the military": nah. You can't get a secret clearance after you're in a certain amount of debt. He'd be a fry cook and slaving for pennies in the Navy.

 

[NinoBrown]

#Stem/certgang don't have these problems....

Major in English and end up in debt collection brehettes....

Go to a fugazi Degree mill like Lincoln U and become an indentured servant...

You have to be doing an internship/part time work relative to your field while in college, not after.....

Rookies smh....

 

[Sassy]

718k in debt!?!?!?!

What in the fukk?!

They gonna be paying that shyt off for the rest of their life all because they made some poor decisions...

This don't make no damn sense at all.

Couldn't be me - No ma'ams!

 

[HabitualChiller]

Think you’ll die if you go into the military brehs


It’s 2019 not 1942

I got a boy right now in the Navy over in Spain. Partying with Euro pawgs and drinking Spanish beer on the beach

Must be nice. I put in orders for Spain, but they kept me in Cali for 5 more years. Can't complain tho.

 

[theflyest]

This. He'll be making $200k a year so he'll be able to crawl out.

I don’t think they are financially smart enough to climb out of anything based on this article. The most important thing here is that he has to finish, which is no guarantee.

 

[hotbeezie]

Breh, if you’re poor and you’re going to college you can’t BS with a degree that you may or may not get you paid in especially if you’re a man.



If you don’t go in STEM field with a direct School...cert...licensure...job pathway, then You NEED to have MULTIPLE plans to make that degree work.



If you got GOT in college as a 1st GEN student ,you ain’t shyt if you don’t warn the rest of family coming up behind you about how to navigate this shyt so they won’t get caught up.

 

[Big Boss]

These student loans

 

[ALonelyDad]

cant blame the education when you are 718K in debt, that is a you problem

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

LMAO at paying 100K for a master's degree.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

LMAO at paying 100K for a master's degree.

I think mine cost like 30k or less. Not sure!

 

[JT-Money]

They can both find work with their degrees and live a comfortable life. A lot of information is missing here.

Live comfortably with close to a million dollars in non-dischargable debt?

Saw what now?