I don't mean to single you out, but this story is too common.
First, would you have had the money to buy all those homes as investments when you were 18 yrs old? If not, then you really didn't have the opportunity to make millions.
2nd- Were you assured a $50K/yr job at 18 yrs old? If not, then college was the right decision.
Finally, why did you choose poli-sci? Were you going to gen a law degree after? How was a poli-sci degree going to make you $50k/per year back then? This is the big problem with college and what kids and their parents don't realize.
You are not guaranteed a job after college. It was never like that,meven in the 80s. Chosing a "useless" degree and wasting 4-5 years of tuition and time was not the fault of the colleges...it was the student's and the parent's fault. Some parents are tickled silly over the thought of their child going to college, but don't about think nor appreciate the bigger picture...
Basically, if you don't have a career plan before college and you chose a degree that can't be marketed and will not be in demand in 4-5 yrs, rethink college.
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I wasted 5 years in college.
If you consider that I would have made even 50k a year between 1985 and 1990, thats 250K down the drain.
If you figure that I spent 15k a year, in tuition, books and beer, then thats another 75k.
If you assume that I would have started buying residential apartment buildings in the late 80's instead of the mid 90's.... nevermind. I'm going to go kill myself.
College was fun and I'm proud to be a Bearcat, but my worthless political science college education probably cost me a million dollars...
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