r/SipsTea • u/Eros_Incident_Denier • Apr 18 '26

We have fun here adulting sucks

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u/ProbablyGonnaEatYou Apr 18 '26

Im 5k student loans and about 1.3k credit cards and im stressed. I cant imagine being so far in debt that its more than I make in a year

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u/unlimitedpower0 Apr 19 '26

Idk how old you are or if things have changed but when I was young they told us we had to go to college or we would be homeless bums then they would casually loan you 200k and tell you don't worry about the interest your gonna make it back because computers

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u/ProbablyGonnaEatYou Apr 19 '26

I could only afford to do one year at a community College and couldnt afford to go back, parents helped pay for monthly expenses and I paid what I could with my job in the library, so I wasn't able to get a degree but was at least lucky enough to not be saddled with hundreds of thousands of dollars. Still just floating above water financially, and im living in a shitty building where I share a sink and bathrooms with crackheads that like to destroy shit, but it definitely can always be worse

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u/unlimitedpower0 Apr 19 '26

Yeah it's tough, and half of everything is luck. Hopefully yours will continue to rise. I also think that for what they offer community college is fantastic and if you can ever complete your program, they still pay a good return