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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]18 is too young for college.   Kids should work or travel or join the army or something first.  Grow up some.[/quote]

that's all well and good, but if they travel, it's probably on mommy and daddy's dime.  If they work, it likely isn't in a well paid job as HS diplomas don't get you very far these days.  And joining the military?  Um, yeah.  My husband went that route and doesn't even want to HEAR it as an option for his kids.  It was good FOR HIM at the time, but that was before 9/11 and Iraq and all of that mess.  Do you REALLY think sending an 18 year old out to fight in the desert is less difficult than college age-wise?

Now, I will say the military worked out OK for my husband as he got out before having to go to a warzone (just barely, though) and then went to college funded in large part by his GI Bill benefits.  It took him 10 years to finish his degree PT (we got married and had our first child in the midst of all of it), but he did finish and didn't have more than maybe a couple hundred dollars in credit card debt for books and such.  He was working a good job in defense/security because he had clearances from his military days and it did give him an in with the defense types.  When he finished, he had his military record on his resume plus I think 8 years of FT work.  So, it does work out for some.  But I don't know if the story would be the same if his timing had been off by just a couple years.  Shit, he would probably be dead.[/quote]

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