What's your biggest regret?
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I really should have learned to drive in high school when I had the chance. No money->no car->no job loops have bit me quite a lot as an adult.
That's interesting. Half of my friends are in successful careers without a license
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No regrats
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Not getting a job in my field after graduating. I was at a very low point in my life and let that window of opportunity go and now I feel like I can't go back because it's been quite a few years and nobody wants people like me. Oh well, I'll find something else to do, but it does sting a bit that depression robbed me of my future like that.
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I really should have learned to drive in high school when I had the chance. No money->no car->no job loops have bit me quite a lot as an adult.
Same here, I often find job postings asking for a driver's license for reasons. I'm happy as can be on my bike, though, I don't get the car hype.
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I regret surviving into the 21st century.
Akasha, is that you?
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Put off transitioning waay too long
Why the fuck are people downvoting this, seriously
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I'm right here with you. Went into Psychology but had no idea that I was screwing myself over on loans - I couldn't afford to continue into a Masters which is pretty much required to work in the field.
About 15 years out and I'm still dealing with the debt for a degree I can't use and can't afford to continue.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard that some people pay the absolute minimum on student loans and keep them for years and years. Some lady I knew was paying like $50 a month or so and she was like, fuck it, I can afford this and more but they're not getting their money any time soon.
Idk, I don't live in the states, so I'm kind of wondering how it all works.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard that some people pay the absolute minimum on student loans and keep them for years and years. Some lady I knew was paying like $50 a month or so and she was like, fuck it, I can afford this and more but they're not getting their money any time soon.
Idk, I don't live in the states, so I'm kind of wondering how it all works.
So it's complicated because it depends on what your loans are from - government loans, a personal bank loan, credit union, etc. There are student loan companies, many of which are extremely predatory and if you're 18 and just being told "you're smart, go to college", you have no idea what you're actually signing up for.
I was told through my teen years that I would "be able to pay my loans back based on how much I make". This is how government loans typically work. At 18 I was not aware that I didn't qualify for - so I went through college thinking I was going to pay my loans back based on my own income.
I was very very wrong, and had no idea until my first loan came in and it was literally more than I made in a month of work.
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Marrying the wrong person
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That's interesting. Half of my friends are in successful careers without a license
wrote on last edited by [email protected]You're probably in a major city, maybe even a hip coastal one or a European one, and not from rural Canada. Good for you, we're not all so lucky.
Moving to a place more like that immediately was the original plan, but shit happens. And, well, my whole support system is where I grew up or close.
