re: Why Summer jobs don't pay for school

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My scholarships and summer job paid for college 10 years ago

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this but it was 25 years ago for me. I lived really poor though, like only eating 2 meals a day. And worked two jobs through most of school

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My scholarships and summer job paid for college 10 years ago

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According to the college board, there's been an 11% increase in the average tuition + fees + room and board in the last 5 years. And 5 years ago, it was a 14% increase from the 5 previous years.

So you're looking around a 26% increase in the last 10 years.

I've graduated and worked throughout college and was lucky enough to find a good job to pay off my loansa few years after leaving. Still seems like price increases are out of control.

LINK

Textbooks are even more ridiculous

Edit: Looks like I used non-profit colleges. Four year public is even higher I believe

32% increase in the last 10 years for public 4 year colleges

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You worked 14 hours a days for 90 straight days?

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pretty much

Sundays were generally shorter but I was working 15-16 hour days the other days of the week

I volunteered for these hours

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You worked 14 hours a days for 90 straight days?

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That sounds like your classic bar room exaggeration.

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frick that. Students loans can be paid back, getting those months of your life back cannot be done.

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it was just 3 summers and allowed me to not work during the year and allowed me to graduate debt free which allowed me to get started on the right path financially faster than the people I graduated with that I still paying on college loans

downvotes for working my arse off and graduating debt free?

That's what my parents don't understand. They were able to work over a summer and pay a year's worth of tuition. With tuition being roughly $10,000 in-state, a summer job would only pay for 2 months groceries. Us millennials are not lazy slackers; rather, we realize that there is no way to earn enough money without a real career, which is why I'm still dependent on my parents at 22 trying to get through school

Cue the baby boomers talking about how their school and summer jobs paid for their education. Everyone should do it! It can be done!

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It can still be done

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Good luck finding something that pays well enough to cover tuition and books, much less room and board without a degree. The residential counselor job I took one summer back in the early 2000s that was paying about $14 an hour now requires a four year degree. I've even seen simple clerk jobs that now require at least an associates that before didn't require more than basic knowledge of Microsoft Office. There's a pretty big reduction in summer jobs worth a shite for college kids, especially when a lot of entry level jobs have been consumed by people wanting to work just enough to stay on welfare. Most of the HS kids I work with are using stints at Jimmy Johns and Kentucky Kingdom (amusement park) for extra money and relying on student loans and scholarships for actual tuition.

I also went back and looked at bills/invoices I saved from my first college stint and compared it to going back now and the cost increase is crazy. There's roughly a 30% increase in tuition and the cost of books has doubled (and in most cases cannot be sold back since several of classes are using virtual books/access codes that you can't sell back).

I'll give you credit for the computer science, but not for the philosophy