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Re:Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession by UncleEntity on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @01:01AM (#31500788)
That’s really bad advice unless you’re going into a field where you can’t possibly ever pay it back.

My sister wouldn’t be a pharmacist without student loans and she is about as far from living in pain as someone can get.

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Re:Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession by bobkazamakis on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @03:07AM (#31501440)
>That’s really bad advice unless you’re going into a field where you can’t possibly ever pay it back.

This is really bad advice if a degree doesn't increase your salary enough to offset the cost.

>My sister wouldn’t be a pharmacist without student loans

She would if the degree didn't cost out of pocket in the first place.

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Re:Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession by UncleEntity on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @05:04AM (#31502079)
This is your advice for the first person on my mom’s side of the family to graduate from college, “don’t follow your dreams because education should be free”?

That’s how they keep the dirty okies who moved to California during the dust bowl (aka my grandparents) as second class citizens. My parents sacrificed a lot to send her to college. I mean, a lot.

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