Sarah and I have returned from a week long tour of the west (by "west" I mean that we made it to Fort Wayne Indiana) I was recruiting for camp and she was catching up with friends along the way. Along the way we picked up a side table made by my cousin out of an old gym light and several bill board tarps that I plan to make into the worlds biggest slip and slide.
Sarah keeps the books around these parts. She is very good at it. She is good at a great deal of things. Tonight she was giving me the monthly financial briefing complete with interactive color coded pie charts illustrating how much money we spend. (I'm not making this up) I know know that we allocate 26.76% of my income (after taxes and tithe) to paying for student loans. When I saw that I thought to myself: "Gee Zach, if you didn't go to college you could be buying motorcycles (like my younger brother), a new house (like my older brother), or running up large cell phone bills (like someone who I won't mention)." Was college worth it? I could be talking on my expensive cell phone as I drive a new bike to a new house. Instead I'm being told by a pie graph where my is going.
I've always had critical things to say about higher education. Especially about how a liberal arts college doesn't always give you practical skills. Sarah's frustration in job hunting and this article seem to make my point for me.
So long for now!
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I think that article is wrong! Or at least skewed in the way it makes the argument. And somewhat irrationally against being poor, which all things considered, is not the worst thing in the world.
did it look like this or this? Well, here are your pictures.
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