| I was reading the Morning Call yesterday morning to | | | | Let's not forget the saving programs designed to |
| learn how many students are actually asking how | | | | encourage parents to save for their future |
| worthwhile it is to get a higher education. Some | | | | professional's education, the 529's. Those saving |
| experts speculate if a certain higher education | | | | programs have taken a hit along with almost |
| candidate is planning on going into a low paying career | | | | everything else. Many are complaining that they have |
| (such as a nursery school teacher) they should | | | | lost up to nine percent of their initial investment in |
| reconsider even going to college. This is due to the | | | | those saving ventures. The Morning Call admonishes |
| skyrocketing cost of college tuition. Many are | | | | those that participate in that savings program to |
| experiencing the inability - not to pay the tuition, they | | | | continue saving because more than likely you will not |
| have loans for that; but the inability to repay the | | | | need that money right away. Even if your child is |
| loans due to the extravagant tuition. College | | | | starting college this very year you will still not have |
| graduates are now walking away having debt of one | | | | to use all of it at once. |
| hundred thousand dollars or more. One young lady | | | | Why not move towards a non-traditional method of |
| portrayed in the article had plans to open her own | | | | paying for college? It is perfectly feasible to work |
| business after graduation and working for a company | | | | part time, make full time pay and pay your tuition as |
| that was in her field of study. She quickly realized | | | | you go. Where can you get work like this? The |
| that the economy had hit the companies that are in | | | | college students can also continue to work as such |
| that field the hardest and that they were not hiring | | | | during the summer days off, holidays, weekends, and |
| right now. She is now working as a waitress, out of | | | | when they go back home to visit with the parents. |
| her field, and with a tremendous amount of debt- | | | | This is the kind of work they can continue to do |
| sixty five thousand dollars to be exact. She now is | | | | after they have graduated DEBT FREE (capitalization |
| considering bankruptcy to help her get back on her | | | | added for emphasis). Everything needed for the |
| feet and "regroup." | | | | success of employment is provided and best of all, all |
| It is plain to the eye that the traditional methods that | | | | of this is done in the privacy of the dorm room. The |
| applied just 5 years ago to help one with investing in | | | | danger here is that the student may become |
| his own education all of a sudden no longer apply. | | | | overwhelmed with the money he/she is earning and |
| Parents are barely able to make ends meet let alone | | | | decide leave school. It is also possible to be paid |
| pay tuition. Government loans are still available. | | | | simply for referrals (that would make the referrer a |
| However with the rising cost of tuition, the college | | | | recruiter). |
| graduate, graduates already making a negative | | | | Reader, please do not hesitate to check this new |
| income. Working is an option however the amount of | | | | website below. Companies are waiting to hire now. |
| time taken to work can easily be used to study. Let's | | | | Literally lists of hundreds; yes we did write hundreds, |
| not forget the fatigue that makes it very difficult to | | | | of companies are waiting for your help. Some pay |
| concentrate. Hopefully the student worker will have | | | | more than others of course, however you will be |
| an understanding boss that will allow for days off | | | | instructed on how to apply with and work with those |
| when tests and final exams come around. Students | | | | that pay the most. It is possible to make up to two |
| generally in this predicament find themselves | | | | or three times the money you are earning right now. |
| struggling not to do well but to just pass the class | | | | Would that help with the rising cost of getting that |
| and move on. Some of the more prestigious schools | | | | education you've been dreaming of? Would it not be |
| are making monumental moves to steer clear of the | | | | nice to graduate from college owing nothing? Most of |
| loans and provide more assistance in the form of | | | | all the satisfaction of knowing that you did it all |
| grants and forgivable loans. This still leaves out the | | | | yourself cannot be matched by any other feeling. |
| average student that was not able to make it into | | | | Best of luck. |
| the "Ivy Leagues." | | | | |