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Hear about how much debt everyone in the US has all the time, curious about some of your stories!

My bad debt is 10k left on a school loan from a for profit school that is now out of business.

Only other debt is house.

So how are you all doing with debt management?

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[โ€“] kttnpunk@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm almost 3k behind because my parents forced me into choosing college or the military at 18. I wasn't remotely ready for either (was dealing with extreme gender dysphoria at the time) and I'm deeply opposed to the army but sometimes I wish I had chosen otherwise -I don't know if I'm ever fixing this. All my cash goes to survival and everything I own is constantly breaking. Poverty is a vicious, vicious cycle...

[โ€“] ericbomb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh that is so hard to hear!

It's crazy that parents are still forcing kids to go to college when it's been documented a billion times how often people are getting no benefit but tons of debt.