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I find it interesting that many of you seem to think you should only get student loans if you are on the "correct path" for the "right" job (apparently to be decided by who exactly isn't clear but apparently some beauracrat or banker). An odd idea as the mantra of most in PARF is get the government out of my life.

As to part of the problem being the inability to default on student loans. Let me clue you in. The reason this is so as at one time it was rather common for students to run up huge loan amounts for law/med school etc. then immediately default on them before starting their new careers with all debt absolved in bankrupty. This is just another example of the law of unintended consequences that our government excels at passing.

And last but not least, how many of you work in fields having nothing to do with your degree? Myself and many others I know are in this category. I have a BS in chemistry/microbiology and never spent one minute in a lab after graduating. I ended up a partner in a software firm (with absolutely no formal education at all in IT technology of any kind) and made a pretty damned good living at it.