How Have the Current Economic Conidtions Affected YOU?

[ICantSpellDawg]

Heh. I'm seriously happy I put my education on hold for a few years(army service for two years, then just working). My friends from my high school class who went straight to college and finished their bachelor degrees this summer are not doing swell these days; they got "hired"(as in promised a job when they graduated) and based their life on that, moved out of home and bought apartments, etc etc. Then a couple of months into the job, and everything went crashing down and they lost their jobs(new guys are first on the list) and are now stuck in debt, and they're working in grocery stores etc, earning well below what they need to pay their mortgage etc. 1 of them has already moved back to mommy, I suspect there will be more soon. I've done a lot of weird choices in my life when it comes to education, but I think I nailed the timing on this one perfectly; there isn't another place I would be right now than in school.

I hope everything works out for you, TuffStuff.

Yep - I went local and got my degree - no debt whatsoever and my rent is the absurdly low amount of $450 per month.

It could be endlessly worse - the apratment is essentially a luxury that I could do without if I had to. My parents live 30 minutes east and I intern 5 mins away from them, so If i need to leave the apartment I can at any time and my gas use would go down dramatically. Even my girlfriend lives closer to my old house. I keep the apartment so that we can have privacy... Wink* Wink*

I hope ot gets better soon because I loved burning money on fancy pants dinners and new stuff and I miss it tremendously. I thought I wasn't making enough at $40 a year - this is a wakeup call.