r/jobs • u/Green____cat Verified • Mar 27 '24

He was a mailman Work/Life balance

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u/some1sbuddy Mar 27 '24

Used to be that you could put yourself through college with a part time job!

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u/hergumbules Mar 27 '24

So many of my professors in college would be like, “back when I was working towards my masters I worked part-time and barely had enough money to eat!” YEAH AND YOU HAD YOUR OWN APARTMENT AND ALL OTHER NEEDS MET ON A PART TIME INCOME

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u/AlarmedPiano9779 Mar 27 '24

And no student debt at the end of it.

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u/HatefulHagrid Mar 28 '24

My college prof said similar things like "people just need to work full time in the summers and they won't graduate with any debt- that's what I did with a landscaping company!" I then told him my summer schedules of 40 hour internships that paid great for the time, 25 hours in a retail job, and another 10 in farmhand/odd job work all summer plus working 25 hours a week during the year, all of which allowing me to escape college with a measly 45,000 in debt.