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Originally Posted by Cajundaddy
Soooo, this guy is making $4800/mo and he is sweating $400/mo student loan pmts? Clearly he didn't learn much in all those Econ classes. Grow some nads junior.
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Originally Posted by john70t
The 'pile-on the victim' tendency is very high in this thread.
Please stop. Then consider national educational policy vs. a single media (hyperbole) example.
Please consider how vulnerable you are to any external psychological trigger.
Then consider why this is...
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Like the author of the original Huff Post article in question, 6 months after I graduated from grad school I started repaying my students loans. My salary was just under $36K (vs. $52K for the author). My loan payments were something like $672 per month (vs. $400). I borrowed about $50K total (vs. $36K). And you know, I paid that $672/mo while living in a high-cost city (Boston).
Now, I was fortunate in that I was able to consolidate my loans several years later to drop my monthly note to about $360. And I had a steady job without layoffs. But I was able to make those payments because I sacrificed. While still being able to save a little under Roth and 403b plans. After 14 years I finally paid off the last of my loans. There are discouraging things in life. This guy needs to learn to persevere.