(May 22, 2018 at 10:08 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: I know for certain that I've had a successful career because of my college degrees.
College debt is another issue, though. Higher education is far too costly in the US and paying more tuition at school x than school y doesn't necessarily even mean school x is better.
They're talking about making the first 2 years of community college free here in California and I hope that happens - at least by the time my kid is ready for college.
-Teresa
I know that my degree helped, though as I mentioned before, I could have worked as a mechanic until I retired, as well. Maybe not at age 62, but who is to say what will happen in this pinball machine called life? I think just working and not giving up is a trait that goes begging for people these days. As a single provider with a wife and three children in southern California, I never expected to see the day I would actually retire at all, let alone before 65. There were some years after my children were grown that my wife worked, so I won't claim 100% single provider. She is currently looking for work, in spite of the fact that she doesn't have to. There are three times in my life where I have been close to death from medical issues. Any one of those times, I could have been dead. Shit happens, but I managed to live through it. I feel for people who have been dealt a bad hand by genetics and life. Socialized medicine would go a long way to relieving that suffering. I'm all over the place with this post; I guess I'm pretty tired, and I'm done for the night.
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