I went to law school at the age of 37. My estate will be paying back my student loans.
Dreadful but true. Do not get me started about how the whole thing with people not being able to escape their student loan debt through bankruptcy began. My head will explode from rage. The ascendancy of the Kleptocracy really began at that time, in my opinion. Uh-Oh. Too late.
Why not? One of the most disturbing yet freeing things about Pumpkin Pinochet’s ascendance is that it has taught us that there are no rules anymore, if you break them in a clever and bold-enough way.
Why ashamed? I’m serious. I’m an investor, and have studied behavioral finance as an assistant to elderly people with their money, and amateur assistant to my friends and relations. People are bad with money, especially debt. Our brains are not wired properly to deal with it.
You and me both. And until this week nobody has ever shared their experience with me. I do a lot of very active, very deliberate smothering of any thought or anxiety about my debt, because I know the second I go there it’s going to mean an hour-long, despairing anxiety attack. It’s not simply that debt limits what I’m…
I am predicting a booming business in the future of helping people fake their own deaths, so that they can start with a clean slate.
Wow.
Thank you both for sharing that. In the same boat here and often so full of shame I can barely breathe.
God, I know! When I read “insane amount” I was (weirdly) excited. Then I was a little hurt to see a number smaller than mine.
This is obviously just some rando fameball’s attempt to bring publicity to her “fashion” company (if that’s what we’re calling shitty T-shirt purveyors these days). She’s been on Millionaire Matchmaker. Like seemingly every other desperado these days, of course she has a fucking podcast.
Really? He seems absolutely fine in this exchange. You can tell pretty early on that he got the crazy vibe from her crazy texts, so he backed off and was just hoking. He was never disrespectful and didn’t ghost her. He. . . seems fine?
My husband is a writer and has had some modest success. He gets advances for his books, he’s well reviewed/awarded and his books sell more than the average writer in his genre. So, #blessed, right?
I was thinking “$85,000 isn’t really that much, depending on the type of debt,” but then clicked through to read that it was credit card debt. Yikes! Makes me feel good about my own credit card debt albatross and impending financial doom, though!
Hahaha yeah, true. I love both of them, myself, but I have a friend who doesn’t like bacon, which is just....unAmerican.
Sure. I’m a millennial and don’t disagree with all this. I had been thinking about going to law school, but in 2008 I watched as people I know who’d just finished their programs at prestigious law schools were given severance packages from the firms that had enthusiastically hired them weeks earlier, and I changed my…
To me, this is endemic of the millenial generation’s general treatment. Not to put you on the spot, personally, but business people and ‘adults’ have used this generation as a whipping boy for years now, forgetting entirely that there were NO JOBS in most of our fields after the mid 2000's. Many of us watched our…
Deal. 5.56?
doe! as if i waste any time thinking about how you and your elk think about me, op.
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