The Next Bailout: Student Loans

[ShebaPoe]

Originally Posted by SirVLCIV

So, when exactly will I be able to refinance my student loans at 3% fixed?

About the same time you realize you'd be farther along in your career if you spent the 4 years you spent in college operating a flea market table.

Double this if you're a business major.

[Baron Von Raschke]

Good bye student loan payments!

[SirVLCIV]

Originally Posted by MattTheSkywalker

About the same time you realize you'd be farther along in your career if you spent the 4 years you spent in college operating a flea market table.

Double this if you're a business major.

Sure :snort:

I'm doing pretty well for myself as an 'intern'. I've also considered pursuing a PhD in Mathematics. I don't think either of these would be possible operating a flea market table (have you actually ever -been- to a flea market?)

[DudeMan]

Originally Posted by SirVLCIV

I don't think either of these would be possible operating a flea market table (have you actually ever -been- to a flea market?)

Are you a career-intern? Seems like you have been interning since I have been an AO member. Also, I know someone who cleans up pretty well operating a flea market table. It isn't consistent though.

[Angstrom]

Originally Posted by A Student

Healthcare?

Dang - JMO is faster...

Please note Medical Care is included on the graph. And college costs are still way worse.

[ShebaPoe]

Originally Posted by SirVLCIV

Sure :snort:

I'm doing pretty well for myself as an 'intern'. I've also considered pursuing a PhD in Mathematics. I don't think either of these would be possible operating a flea market table (have you actually ever -been- to a flea market?)

No, you're right, in your pursuit of a degree you spent days, weeks and months learning how to do things that a computer can do in 0.2 seconds. (I have a math degree too, I know)

What you did not see - and this is true of most corporate employees - was a customer.

And yes, I do go to flea markets. Retail at all levels fascinates me. Flea markets and Bergdorf Goodman have the same goal, after all, and the person working on the floor in either place knows more about delivering the goods than a battalion of Math PhD's.

[JMO]

Originally Posted by Angstrom

Please note Medical Care is included on the graph. And college costs are still way worse.

The point is that they both show the same pattern. Interestingly, both are items in which the person receiving the service is not the one currently paying most of the costs.

[SirVLCIV]

Originally Posted by GraffixMan

Are you a career-intern? Seems like you have been interning since I have been an AO member. Also, I know someone who cleans up pretty well operating a flea market table. It isn't consistent though.

I get my degree this year.

I would be bored to death operating a flea market table. I enjoy my current job.

[SirVLCIV]

Originally Posted by MattTheSkywalker

No, you're right, in your pursuit of a degree you spent days, weeks and months learning how to do things that a computer can do in 0.2 seconds. (I have a math degree too, I know)

What you did not see - and this is true of most corporate employees - was a customer.

And yes, I do go to flea markets. Retail at all levels fascinates me. Flea markets and Bergdorf Goodman have the same goal, after all, and the person working on the floor in either place knows more about delivering the goods than a battalion of Math PhD's.

Computers can come up with creative applications in 0.2 seconds? And can write their own programs? Wow. I'm behind on AI research, but color me surprised.

And you don't know what I did or did not see, nor what I work on in my spare time (hopefully I have something sale-worthy within a few years, but I've been neglecting it, heh).

[ShebaPoe]

Originally Posted by SirVLCIV

Computers can come up with creative applications in 0.2 seconds? And can write their own programs? Wow. I'm behind on AI research, but color me surprised.

You could come up with the creative apps without the time spent in the classroom. Hell, the last comp sci class I took was Fortran, and yet I come up with creative apps all the time. Then an Indian or Chinese monkey programs it. And an American monkey debugs it. You'll be the American monkey that uses it. This was worth all that studying? lol. You will be a good drone.

And you don't know what I did or did not see, nor what I work on in my spare time (hopefully I have something sale-worthy within a few years, but I've been neglecting it, heh).

My job is analyzing companies for institutional investors. I go in, meet the execs, watch the Ops groups work...it's all pretty much the same.

Your spare time is your most valuable time. Don't waste it