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[quote=Anonymous]To me the weird thing is that most colleges don't teach this stuff at all.  There are no courses that talk about:  If you do this career you will probably make in about this range, and this one will net you this range, and apartments in various cities will cost about this much, or maybe this much if you have roommates, and you will probably need about this much for food, and children and child care cost about this much.

I realize this is a gross oversimplification, but I never took a single class that taught even the broadest strokes of this.  I had absolutely no idea.  I went to college wanting to write, and then spent the next five years after graduation working weird publishing jobs in my hometown and college town before I realized "Oh, I will never make a comfortable amount of money doing this" at which point I went to law school.  I was lucky I could still get a previous professor to write a recommendation.

I figured this out in my laterish twenties but I can see that if someone kept getting increasingly better jobs in NYC they would have stayed on that train longer than I did.  And needless to say the legal field has its own problems but at least the pay is generally (though not always) better.[/quote]

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