It’s funny. Whenever someone asks what I do, I explain that “I help students learn how to pay for college without taking on student debt”.
I cannot tell you how many times the person responds with “Oh wow. I wish you were around when I went to college!” Or “Geez. Where were you _5, 10, 15__ years ago!?” I say it’s funny because those that value what I do the most are the ones who feel the pain and the burden of student loans.
Many adults, including parents, feel the pain of student loans because a lot of them are still paying off their own degrees (or they just recently finished paying them off). The average student loan borrower will take 21+ years to pay back their debt so this is not going to change anytime soon.
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