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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]

That was my parents. I got sh-t grades in the major they forced me to do. I struggled in underpaid jobs for years because of that and then I scraped my way into professional school.  I did ok after that but now I’m a SAHM.

I think back to the curve-setting grades I got in classes outside my major and feel so much regret and honestly awe at how naive and ignorant my parents were with that STEM stuff. At my college, excellence in the courses in which I excelled would have set me up for a truly lucrative and interesting future. My parents were too unsophisticated to understand that and it sounds like this PP doesn’t get it, either.

Also, pre-finance? Do you mean “prerequisites at middling schools required for acceptance into undergrad business programs”? It sounds like a major to prepare people to open their own Edward Jones storefront.[/quote]

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