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Nukleen
12/18/18 7:44:55 PM
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but putting $50K in stocks and other investment vehicles is "too risky"?
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TheDogfather
12/18/18 7:45:27 PM
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*nibbles*
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Nukleen
12/19/18 3:02:20 PM
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The average 4 year degree takes 20 years to become profitable.
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TheBlueMonk_
12/19/18 3:03:36 PM
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Nukleen posted...
The average 4 year degree takes 20 years to become profitable.

lmao. if you're not making 150k a year PLUS bonuses AND benefits and maxing out your 401k AND roth iras when you are 23-24 years old, YOU ARE LITERALLY DOING IT WRONG
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Anteaterking
12/19/18 3:04:17 PM
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Well part of it is that you can get loans for $50k to go to college, but it's hard to get $50k of loans to "play the stock market".
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Knowledge_King
12/19/18 3:58:32 PM
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Nukleen posted...
The average 4 year degree takes 20 years to become profitable.


Nah, that means you're doing it wrong. Paying full price for college alone is dumb. But doing it for a job that isn't profitable within 5 years? Next level wrong.
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Romulox28
12/19/18 3:59:50 PM
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without at least a BA you are automatically not qualified to do pretty much anything other than retail or manual labor
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Nukleen
12/19/18 4:03:32 PM
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Anteaterking posted...
Well part of it is that you can get loans for $50k to go to college, but it's hard to get $50k of loans to "play the stock market".


You don't need to 'play the stock market', just buy index funds and hybrid funds.

Knowledge_King posted...
Nukleen posted...
The average 4 year degree takes 20 years to become profitable.


Nah, that means you're doing it wrong. Paying full price for college alone is dumb. But doing it for a job that isn't profitable within 5 years? Next level wrong.


Are you trying to suggest only STEM degrees are worth it???
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Anteaterking
12/19/18 4:21:01 PM
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Nukleen posted...
You don't need to 'play the stock market', just buy index funds and hybrid funds.


It's hard to get a loan for $50k to buy index funds.
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Silver Bearings
12/19/18 4:37:16 PM
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Anteaterking posted...
Nukleen posted...
You don't need to 'play the stock market', just buy index funds and hybrid funds.

It's hard to get a loan for $50k to buy index funds.

Came in to say this.
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Vertania
12/19/18 4:39:21 PM
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-Most 18 year olds don't understand how shitty of a deal those loans are
-Most college students grossly overestimate the jobs they'll be able to get with their degree
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