[mommyof4]

Originally Posted by Inkstain82

And I *did* go to college to try and get a better paying job, and I still ended up pretty poor for awhile.

Why? Because I was sold on the idea that as long as you were going to college, you were doing things right.

Borrow money to go to college? That's alright. Major in a field that has the lowest pay of any four year degree? That's alright. Bollocks up your personal finances so you can commute to school and work extra hours on the school paper to improve your resume to help get a job? That's alright. Because you are going to college, and that provides all the answers.

Most of the time, people are poor because they don't know how to make good choices. Being good with money is an acquired skill, and if your parents are poor, their parents are poor, your friends are poor and your neighbors are poor, who is going to teach you?

Yep, you're talking to a person who was a History and English major as an undergrad. Guess what? Even though I graduated from a private college with honors and a double major, I couldn't get a decent paying job for nothin'. I eventually went back and got my MA in Communication Disorders (Speech Therapy), and there are good paying jobs galore in this industry.