How Much Did You Pay For Your College Education?

[Fatman LOU]

I never went to college, I hardly went to High-school. My oldest daughter paid most of her college cost and had educational grants to help. She went to a private college. I help pay now for her student loans.

I have 2 young children that i put my smaller pension check away every month for college if they do go , which i believe they will.

Right now they both are at the top of their class according to their teachers.

They both have after school programs like Science,Math, Music, Physical activities and Arts and Crafts. The wife and I wanted to give them a break from after school activities but they wanted to keep going.

Is there anything else i can do to help prepare them for college?

 

[HeHateMe]

Had like 20k in student loans...

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

$1.75 in late fees to the public library.

 

[nvanprooyen]

Zero. I got out of the USAF and went straight to work. I've spent countless hours self-educating however. Still do. A lack of a degree mattered a little in the beginning of my career, but at this point I have so much experience, along with a track record of success that it doesn't matter at all. It hasn't come up once in any job I've held over the last 15 years, and if it did, I probably wouldn't want to work for that company anyways.

 

[Fatman LOU]

Had like 20k in student loans...

My daughter i believe has like $ 70,000.00 I think, i would have to ask her for sure.

 

[HeHateMe]

My daughter i believe has like $ 70,000.00 I think, i would have to ask her for sure.

Scholarships baby! Honestly, for my kids I'm thinking trades/art school...

 

[Fatman LOU]

Zero. I got out of the USAF and went straight to work. I've spent countless hours self-educating however. Still do. A lack of a degree mattered a little in the beginning of my career, but at this point I have so much experience, along with a track record of success that it doesn't matter at all. It hasn't come up once in any job I've held over the last 15 years, and if it did, I probably wouldn't want to work for that company anyways.

I knew at an early age i needed to secure my retirement. Probably from my working blue collar parents.

I was lucky and got into the good trades.

 

[Fatman LOU]

Scholarships baby! Honestly, for my kids I'm thinking trades/art school...

My oldest got quite a few scholarships to keep going to college.

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

$1.75 in late fees to the public library.

Fleested

 

[Slim Cognito]

I never went to college, I hardly went to High-school. My oldest daughter paid most of her college cost and had educational grants to help. She went to a private college. I help pay now for her student loans.

I have 2 young children that i put my smaller pension check away every month for college if they do go , which i believe they will.

Right now they both are at the top of their class according to their teachers.

They both have after school programs like Science,Math, Music, Physical activities and Arts and Crafts. The wife and I wanted to give them a break from after school activities but they wanted to keep going.

Is there anything else i can do to help prepare them for college?

Nobody gives a **** about your *** ass cracker ass family.

 

[PaytonHighstep]

I was fortunate to have parents that helped pay tuition while I was in college. I took out loans throughout college to offset their out of pocket at the time. I believe I left 4 years of college with around $27k in student loan debt in 1998. It's been paid off for about 7 years. Today, that debt would be double or triple of what it was back then. I really don't know how so many families and kids themselves are justifying college costs right now. Starting wages haven't increased at the rate student loan debt has, let alone what the out of pocket is for families as well.

I have 2 boys, 3 years old and 5 months old. I need to start putting away in a fund for them, but I'm not forcing them to go to college. Since I'm in my early 40's, their college years coincide with my retirement (hopefully), so I'm considering a roth account as my college savings vehicle. I'd like to introduce skilled labor to them while they are growing up. If they are interested great, if not, so be it. My hope for them is they have an interest, which draws them to a particular field through their teenage years. There is such a need for skilled labor, I see the need growing immensely over the next 10-20 years as the guys/gals in their 50's and 60's retire.

 

[brett05]

Zero. I got out of the USAF and went straight to work. I've spent countless hours self-educating however. Still do. A lack of a degree mattered a little in the beginning of my career, but at this point I have so much experience, along with a track record of success that it doesn't matter at all. It hasn't come up once in any job I've held over the last 15 years, and if it did, I probably wouldn't want to work for that company anyways.

The degree is more to get into the front door than anything else. HR does a scan and only look at resumes with degrees which hurts someone like you who could probably run circles around the college folks.

 

[Fatman LOU]

Nobody gives a **** about your *** ass cracker ass family.

I bet you're a real cutey in real life. Please now dont threaten to beat me up, im sorry.

 

[Ares]

I wanna say my 4 years, Computer Science at U of I was something like 15-20k a year.

So in the end I will probably have of paid 80k for my undergrad degree, definitely 80k with the interest on the loans.

At this point I've paid off or consolidated all of my loans into one loan at like a 3.75% interest rate on a 60 month term.

I am lucky to make enough money to be able to afford to pay the loans off this fast.

I don't think higher education at any school, but certainly not public Universities, should cost 50-75% of a house.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Scholarships baby! Honestly, for my kids I'm thinking trades/art school...

Imagine being such a cuck that you need to whore yourself out for a scholarship and have someone else pay your way.

 

[Fatman LOU]

Imagine being such a cuck that you need to whore yourself out for a scholarship and have someone else pay your way.

Gus i always held you to higher standards. That was kinda rude.

 

[nvanprooyen]

The degree is more to get into the front door than anything else. HR does a scan and only look at resumes with degrees which hurts someone like you who could probably run circles around the college folks.

Really not an issue for me, because anything I'd take would likely come from a recruiter coming to me directly or from a referral in my personal network of a business looking for a very specific skillset. I haven't "applied" for a job since 2001.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

Graduated with 51k in student loans. Contrary to popular belief, being white middle class does not mean your parents can just magically shell out a bunch of cash. I graduated in 2013 and have them down to less than 8k. Thankfully, I actually put my education to work for me and secured a solid paying job with good upward mobility unlike some people I graduated with. I know countless people I graduated with who are stuck in 40k/year jobs or less and just constantly ***** on social media about how much the world is against them. Losers.

I agree with trades or vocational school being a good route nowadays. If I could go back, I would have sucked it up and done community college for 2 years and transferred.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Graduated with 51k in student loans. Contrary to popular belief, being white middle class does not mean your parents can just magically shell out a bunch of cash. I graduated in 2013 and have them down to less than 8k. Thankfully, I actually put my education to work for me and secured a solid paying job with good upward mobility unlike some people I graduated with. I know countless people I graduated with who are stuck in 40k/year jobs or less and just constantly ***** on social media about how much the world is against them. Losers.

I agree with trades or vocational school being a good route nowadays. If I could go back, I would have sucked it up and done community college for 2 years and transferred.

I'd go to work at Metra if I had to do it all over again.

 

[HeHateMe]

Gus i always held you to higher standards. That was kinda rude.

No, he's right. I'm literally a cuck because instead of applying for a bunch of loans and defaulting on them I went after the grant money and wrote some essays.