School loans is another thing I knocked out in a few months. Had a pretty good scholarship, but those books are pricey. If I had to pay for school I probably would have looked to another route to get it paid for me, but I'm a smart ass, that was not needed.
I waffled back and forth between paying it all and just making the regular payment. Decided that since there was 0% interest, there was no reason to pay the remainder, and I'd pay it on the last day. I finally pay off one of my school loans next spring. Will have one more left after that, but I can cut my time to pay it off substantially by directing some of what I had been paying on the old loan to this one.
I know kobe going to law school probably had huge debts. I went to a local private college that was expensive (again, good scholarships) but I was able to save on the food and board as I lived at home. My friends grandmother worked at the cafeteria, so I got lunch for free and worked in a kitchen in a nursing home, so dinner was taken care of.
Private college, about 8 hours from home. Had a good scholarship that I lost after my freshman year. I wouldn't say I regret my college experience, but it wasn't the most financially sound decision I made in my life. If I had either kept my scholarship or transferred back home after my freshman year, I would have been on a better footing, debt load wise.
yeah, college provided some services, i don't know if education would have been the forefront. the connections available were the best, and i say that as someone that took a government job. it's a very good job mind you, but that's where a lot of the people in my agency came out of (I was the last, I don't know what that says about me, though we did have a hiring freeze after I came on board and I never went back to recruit from there).
my line was going to be to tell him there's easier ways to get out of coming to Thanksgiving, take it if it helps.
I graduated law school with about $50K in debt. That was all for living expenses as I had a tuition scholarship. Paid them all off when my first wife and I divorced and we sold our house.
yeah, living expenses is something i never had to worry about, which i could see adding up. i saved on gas and car insurance for like half the time too, but i think that balanced out with the fines i had to pay.
I lived in San Francisco at the time. $50K for three years works out to about $1400 per month. Even 25 years ago, that didn’t go very far. I had a job as well to supplement my expenses, but was mostly just broke all of the time.
I told a friend that there were easier ways to get me to talk to him again. He could’ve just said “I’m sorry.”
i also got lucky when i interned at my current job. my mom's hairdresser had a brother that lived in the NoVa area that let me stay with him for free... on top of that, i still had a situation where i was saving on that gas and insurance for the first few months and that cat drove me to work (which i think was on his way a few days of the work week, but otherwise, he was saying around the area he lived), i don't know how i've been able to fuck up so much in my life and still have things work out.
things happened, don't worry about it.
i'm just amazed at my luck. to be able to afford a place in the area of my internship i would have had to take out a loan, as the money they were paying wouldn't have covered it. no license, how am i going to get there? oh, that cat's going to drive me there as well? cool that it's on his way (oh it is only for half of the time, otherwise he was driving me up there when he could have dropped me off at the VRE and let me figure it out?). All that said, the best thing he did for me was I never wore buttoned up shirts before. I buttoned up to the top button, he was like, don't do that. he also had tons of guns and bullets in his car every day while dropping me off on base, but he had ID, so no worries.... granted, he was a shooting instructor, but still.
