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[quote=Anonymous]College can be expensive, but it doesn't have to be.  Community colleges are still very cheap and their credits transfer to 4-year universities.  While a 4-year degree from a prestigious university is impressive - it's only useful for companies that care about prestige.  Most companies care about whether you can do the job.  This means you need to get experience, particularly while you're in school.  If you come out of community college with solid Excel, PowerPoint and similar skills, you shouldn't have a problem landing a job that you can use to bootstrap into better positions.

Another problem that recent graduates face is that they refuse to move away from family/friends, their favorite city (e.g., San Francisco, NYC, etc... where it may be very expensive to live), or other decision that is solely in their control.  If you want a job, you need to go where the jobs are.  I wouldn't want to put down roots in a less-desirable city either, but no one is saying that you need to do so.  Your goal is to get experience that you can leverage in order to get a job in the city where you want to put down roots.

Finally, and this may not be a popular thought (and may have been suggested already), but the military is always an option for young people in debt.  The military does offer educational loan repayment programs.[/quote]

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