Comments on: How to make sure the cost of college doesn’t ruin your kid’s future (updated for 2023) https://hackyourwealth.com/cost-of-college-future Wealth building hacks for lawyers & engineers Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:19:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 By: Gregg Adler https://hackyourwealth.com/cost-of-college-future#comment-46308 Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:19:55 +0000 https://hackyourwealth.com/?p=5103#comment-46308 Join a skilled trade, $66K plus benefits by age 22, no college debt. Start earning at 18 or 19. We have more jobs than we have skilled people to fill them. Oh, but you have to show up everyday, on-time, work occasional overtime and do it sober. There are too many worthless degrees that can not support the accumulated college debt required to earn them. Figure out how much you need to make per year, find out what jobs pay that much, then find out how to get the skills for the least amount of time and money (if any) required to secure those jobs and get to work.

Students who graduate from a St. Paul high school and can pass the ACT can go for free for two years to St. Paul College, earn an AA or industry certificate and start at $60K plus per year if they choose the right vocation. Four-year liberal arts colleges are a dinosaur from the 1900’s and the elites of their time. No working class people sent their kids there. Those who graduated had jobs in the family business, law firm or lived off old money like former MN Governor Mark Dayton. Now middle class folks send their “B” student there and rack up $100,000+ in school debt, only find jobs at Target and Starbucks with their English Lit and Philosophy majors. Saddled with the equivalent of a mortgage but no house. Wake up America.
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