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MollyR

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If you don't understand my distaste for colleges money sinks read this : alot of these are suicidal kids with degrees who did everything "right" by the authority figures they trusted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/1yktjp/are_the_poor_and_unemployed_supposed_to_kill/

https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/4ogbv9/been_almost_2_years_without_a_job_honestly/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/18/college-drove-me-to-the-brink-of-suicide/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3695613/Student-23-university-hanged-flunking-degree.html

Money, degrees, and productivity are not metrics of a live well lived. There are metrics such as self-reported happiness, marriage and divorce rates, birth rates, and other things that paint a much fuller picture. You need to figure out what is good for you.

Some advice...

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