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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I told my kids that I'm not paying for college unless they're pre-med, pre-finance, or in engineering/tech.

Why the hell would you want your kid to be a reporter or a writer or an interior designer or an actress or a dance teacher? That's a TON of work for little pay.

Of course, ignore all of the above if you're so wealthy that your kids will have perpetual financial support. Trust funders need not to pay attention to what I just wrote. But anyone who's not 1%er-level wealthy does. [/quote]

You do know there’s a whole world out there that doesn’t include premed, finance and engineering?    Plenty of people out there doing great in other chosen fields.  I kind of feel bad for your kids and hope they happen to like the life you chose for them.

My daughter always knew dance was what she wanted to do and so did her classmates.  She went to the top professional schools including residential schools starting at age 8.   Before that it was local schools.

It was a ton of money, six figures, for residential programs, summer residential programs at the top schools and apprenticeship.

There are people born to be artists of all kinds.  Musicians, painters, sculptors, singers, dancers.  Unless you’re part of this world you probably wouldn’t understand.

My daughter will have no money problems and we paid for everything including her current NYC rent.  But she has many friends who make it on their own with no family money.  Excellent work ethics who know how to hustle and survive between jobs.   I envy them, they are living their lives the way they want to.

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