More than a third of college graduates with student loans say they DIDN'T get their money's worth

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The biggest criminals in all of this are the private schools that teach you basket weaving, or its equivalent, for $20,000 a year. Parents did a really bad job of making sure their kids went into fields that were growing in jobs. Pretty much anything that has to do with nursing, or medical care, is still a safe bet.

[–]SundogsPlace 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree with you on all points except > Parents did a really bad job of making sure their kids went into fields that were growing in jobs.

When a person reaches 18, they are adults and as adults are responsible for choosing a career path. The parents can talk till they're blue in the face, but in the end, if the 18-year-old picks a career in basket weaving, it's not the fault of the parent.

And yes the basket weaving type of careers, the easier ones to get a degree in are the ones where there are no jobs. These people pick the easy road then complain that the taxpayer should bail them out for making stupid career path decisions. The people who chose the career path of as you pointed out, medical, or engineering, those people hardly have worthless degrees, but they worked their ass off to get that degree.

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Parents don't start advising their kids when the reach 18. It's their job to steer the child into a filed, or vocation, that suits them and has a future.