this is a subject much on mind, with these rapidly maturing semi-dependent humans surrounding me.
My mother is ready to run me in for child abuse for suggesting it, but I believe that the way forward is to not just plunge into college.
I don’t know what the future holds for any of them, but I know this; I refuse to encourage them to take on boatloads of debt, and I refuse to pay boatloads of money. One small canoe perhaps, but not an entire boatload.
I knwo law school is a bubble, and there are lots and lots of blogs of disgruntled graduates, allegations of lies in law school promotional statistical material. I don’t want me kids sucked into some debt slavery because they got into some damned school.
disgruntled law student lawschoolisa scam blog are a dime a dozen on the internet. some are even entertaining.
I do see higher education and student loan debt the same way housing looked to me five years ago; scary, big, filled with irrationality and bs. Just because it paid off in the past is no guarantee going forward, and it’s starting to look very bloated, especially law. I’m no saying don’t go to college, but go with a plan–not just for studying but moneywise.
My hope and prayer is that they will live in this giant house I bought, reach drinking age and drink with me on the patio, and keep me comany and figure things out for themselves, work, school life direction, with low overhead, whatever that figuring entails!
why all this nest fleeing? I just bought this giant goddamned nest.
