Help me pay off my student loans! [/selfish]

First things first: leave now if you were expecting pics

I'm working through Upromise to help supplement my loans because every little bit helps when you're facing $175,000 in debt (which comes out to $1550 a month starting in November). So far I've made 55 cents from buying 2 breakfast burritos and $2 for doing a 10 second review of the taco shop.

I know you guys buy a lot of shit online, and know a lot of people who buy shit online, so anytime you want to go through my Upromise guest page, I will get a little bit of a return. I might even send you cookies.

Online places you can shop (there are a ton, here's a sample):
Orbitz, Barnes and Noble, Walmart, Home Depot, Best Buy, Victoria's Secret, Shutterfly, Office Depot, Hotels.com, Buy.com, Netflix

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Also, if any one is feeling particularly awesome and would like to be one of my "Friends and Family" please PM me. Basically, you sign up on Upromise and link as many things as you feel comfortable, like grocery club cards or credit cards. Anytime you make a purchase with a Upromise reward, it's automatically awarded to my account. It doesn't affect you at all, but could potentially help me a lot.

i got an idea to help pay your school loans.. :evil::unibrow::unibrow:

I'll keep this in mind if I buy anything online. Student loans are a bitch.

So I gotta ask, what sort of job have you landed or hope to land?

Goddamn, 175k...I don't know if there's an average but that just seems crazy to me.

I'm gonna bookmark your page in case I decide to buy from these stores...most of them I shop in person though :\

175k would be ... pretty high above the average. I want to say average is somewhere around 50k-75?

fucksock. i just ordered a bunch of stuff off amazon yesterday.
I might be able to get you on our company account...let me see

haha, i was waiting for you to post that

(on the note of "dam kids")
I've become a big fan of the 'spend a year or two or three in the real world before college' system. Everyone that i know who did/does that takes school a lot more seriously

QFT I really need to get back in school.

Edit: Will and I will keep you in mind

For the time being I'm doing graphic design on a independent contractor basis, but as of next week i'm almost guaranteed to be "Director of Social Marketing" at a fairly large and well-known business. I'll update in NSFW if I get it, privacy and yadda yadda.

I applied for the Director's Guild trainee program, which starts in July if I'm accepted. It's a 400 day program and they only accept max 20 people a year. Pay starts at 650 a week for the 1st 100 days, last hundred days you earn $850/week (all plus overtime and benefits).

I'm also living at home/my boyfriend's parents' house, so I don't have to worry about rent/food for the time being.

I wouldn't get my hopes up about the DGA Trainee position. It's pretty tough to get in, and most ppl that become trainee's have been PA's for a while before applying. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you though. You wanna produce right?

Did you go to community college to get your associates degree or anything to help avoid that huge debt? Id look into joining the military as an officer, they might be able to help you pay some of that off, and the pay is probably better. Student Loan Repayment Program

fucking shit. thats insane. is that going towards the balance fully or is that just paying on the interest??

fuck sallie mae
this is why i tell everyone.. dont goto college unless someone is paying it for you COMPLETELY.
especially in this era where experience outweighs a piece of paper degree, and employment is not guaranteed.

Well, good luck. My wife graduated from Xavier and brought what I considered to be a lot of school related debt with her. But your number absolutely takes my breath away! Had my wife showed up with that number she would have had to be sporting a pretty kick ass job otherwise I would have needed my "space".

wow $175k. i'm sorry but i just don't see how it's worth it. i guess it depends on your profession. but it's been proven time and time again lately that you don't even need college education these days, or need as much as people think.

school in itself is a waste for the most part. most the classes are pointless. same thing with college. i went to tech college to get my associates degree. all tech classes except for every Wednesday a week for like an hour, we had to do the state minimum in math, english, writing or whatever. i barely learned anything, it was just so i could put the degree on my resume. and the total cost of my education was like a few thousand dollars (and my parents paid for it).

i was in the workforce at age 20. i don't regret it one bit. of course thats my profession. i researched before college to make sure i didn't NEED anything more than what I got. and what i found was that my profession likes experience more than anything.

I don't know what you what to do for a living but I hope it is worth it. the time and money you have been in for education is pretty ridiculous if it doesn't end up getting you a way better career. I just can't imagine having to pay $1500 a month on paying back school loans. I certainly couldn't afford that right now.

anywho, good luck with paying it off and getting a great job!

How long do you have to pay your student loans for? Ill keep this in mind whenever I buy something online. I usually dump a couple hundred bucks a month on amazon.

you guys bitching about college in general are confused. you can make those arguments for liberal arts degrees and such, but there is a thing called engineering and science that joe dumbass can't just walk in off the street and do. college is mandatory for a lot of stuff (just not history or engrish)

Post secondary education is definately needed for most professions. The only problem I have with it is like you said above Tex, people rushing in out of high school rarely take it seriously or even know what they want to do in the real world. Because they have never been in the real world.

That goes without saying, tex... I think Chainblade was saying that not every degree that people go for is necessary for the careers they want.

Technical/science degrees, yes. Business degrees? Sortof, not really. LA degrees? Why bother?

the thing that is lost on most people now is that people used to want to work for themselves. now everyone wants to work for someone else. the "good 'ol american dream" was having your own small business. i would easily rather work for myself, be my own boss, be in charge of my own life blah blah blah than work for someone else. you don't NEED ANY education to do that.

look at half the powerful tech people. most dropped out of college or didn't even go. again, i'm just talking about the tech industry 'cause that's what I'm in but i'm sure it's the same in other industries (not all).

i don't know, it's a double edged sword with this stuff. do you go to college, waste your time and money for the possible chance to get a great career? or do you do no/little college, save your money, start working early (for obviously less pay) and slowly make your way up to where you want to be? or just work for yourself. I guess it just depends on what you want to do with your life. My personal opinion is that tradition college is a waste of money. i'd say a good 95% of people I know that go to tradition college and are in massive debt, are not even working in the industry they went to college for and are making less money than me.

My buddy who trolls Tweak stumbled on this thread on his own, I hadn't mentioned it at all. He walked into my office and said "So who's the retard on the forum with all the student loans?"

Honestly, he's sitting in my office right now completely stunned that you aren't a doctor. It was a four year degree, right? He and I are both very curious how that debt breaks down (classes, housing, etc). For that amount of money I think you probably could have gone to Harvard or Yale, maybe even some graduate work too.

We have had this argument many times before, but I will add something else: Another benefit of college is the networking potential. Who you know in this world is a huge part of future opportunities.

Yeah, not to be an ass or anything but I don't feel sorry for you for one bit. I have my own shit to worry about, good luck.

I have to pay about $10k-12k a semester for Central Connecticut State University. My uncle who used to work for Lehman Brothers had my entire $46,000 college fund set up in Lehman Brother's stock and when they went under I was holding a big bunch of nothing(around $8,000).

I'm now into my 3rd semester and trying to pay for everything out of my pocket, I can't find student loans anywhere and Sallie Mae wanted to give me a 13% adjustable rate.

This is not a good time to be a broke student looking for education loans.