Ask HN: Help, my $150,000 student debt is ruining my life, and my future

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Dear enlightened HN community, I am earnestly seeking as many helpful advice as I can get, pertaining to the painful state of existence I reside in due to ignorant & impulsive college decisions I made about a decade ago. Due to excessive math & science training in high school, I impulsively decided to go to an expensive East Coast Art school to study Art & Design, paid for on entirely borrowed student debt average 40k a year, for 4 years straight. I was extremely financial ignorant at that age, not at all understanding the actual income of those who chooses career in the creative fields. Straight out of school, I got an entry level marketing job offer. At that point, the job offer was so low, that it would leave me starving after my basic necessities, such as apartment & student debts are paid. I chose instead, to do something riskier, and more entrepreneurial straight out of school, thinking this is the only way I can make the amount of money needed to pay off my stude

Published 13 Apr 2011
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