Sunday Bitter Sunday #7

Hot new 8 gauge earrings:

Same old bitterness:

Today’s topic is something Bitter B doesn’t have to worry about because he’s a) fictional and b) a fucking billionaire in his fictional universe. But I’m sure he sympathizes because he’s a superhero and doesn’t like to see people treated like crap, right?

Right.

Okay then.

Sunday Bitter Sunday #7: Student Loans

Holy fuck do I hate student loans.

Last Tuesday was a day I had been dreading. The day my December student loan statements arrived. Most months I only have one payment, but every few months I have to pay both my monthly and quarterly statements. Yeah. There’s nothing I love more than having to pay a $500 dollar bill, especially right before the holidays.

I’m glad I went to college and overall I had a pretty good time there. But was it worth being in debt for the rest of my life? I’m not sure.

When you think about it, higher education has a pretty nice racket set up. You grow up and everyone tells you to go to college, get an education and then you’ll be “successful”. So you work hard and you go to school and then you graduate, and then it hits you. All those triplicate forms you signed every semester added up to more money than you realized, probably more money than you make in a year at your crappy low-paying job (if you were even lucky enough to get a job since current and recent grads are entering the workforce at the worst possible time). You’re burdened by debt before you even begin. This then sets you up to work for the rest of your life as a wage slave to pay it all back. Short of untimely death, student loans are almost impossible to get rid of. They’re like a nasty treatment resistant tapeworm, sucking the lifeblood from you. It’s pretty ingenious really.

They didn’t really teach me many practical, real-world skills in college. But student loans did teach me one of life’s most valuable lessons: what it feels like to be screwed over. And if that doesn’t prepare you for the real world, nothing will.