A tale of personal debt
Tue 25 Jul 2006 – 12.10
I came across this story and figured “what is more twenty-something than massive personal debt”. The story is mainly about student debt but talks about credit cards and other financial woes. A first-hand account of one particular woman, not necessarily the case for everyone…
And of course, since the story got Dugg, there were a million comments and responses – read one such negative rebuttle here
And for the record, I have about $43,000 in student debt. And that’s having paid off a bit, so let’s just make it $44,000 for sake of argument. I don’t know if that’s with the interest added or not. Otherwise its closer to $51,000. Good times.
posted by Scott in education, personal finance.
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Hello. Thank you for linking my article. I too have almost $60,000 in student loan debt but I am in a degree program that will yield the money to pay back my loans. I’m going for my Masters Degree in Computer Science and should be pretty set once I get out of school- atleast I should be making enough money to pay back my loan. Lesson of the story- Don’t get your degree in anthropology at an expensive school. Don’t go back for you masters when you can’t get a job. And lastly, don’t go back for your PhD when you write an article about how you can’t get a job.
Steve Corona
Comment by Steve Corona on Tue 25 Jul 2006 — 18.59 |
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