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Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market by jmilloy on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:52PM (#15853759)
Sure, and the relationship you have with your dog is probably "priceless", too, but that doesn't mean it should be trivially easy to get a three-figure loan to bring one home, and that animal shelters should charge three figures per adoption.

I'm really not belittling your degree. I value such degrees highly. I also don't think they should cost so much, nor that the student-loan bubble should be allowed to facilitate charging you so much for it. Ideally fixing the system wouldn't eliminate such degrees, they would just decrease the cost to something reasonable.

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Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market by umbrellathorn on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @09:06PM (#15857934)
In my case, I went to school to become a musician. Got a master's degree in music performance, but got tired of working hard and earning very little.

I self taught computer science and programming, so now I have a good salary and a much more comfortable life.

I feel my bachelor's was pretty special since it was a liberal arts degree and my employer seems to recognize the difference between me and someone who didn't go to school and/or just studied STEM exclusively.

I was very lucky to have scholarships, that made it easier on me when I was younger. But wanting to go back for CS made it impossible later in life without getting in debt. And I refuse to get a student loan. It's sad that when someone didn't get lucky with a well off household or scholarships, they have to cripple themselves into debt.

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