• Duchess@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    i have a genuine passion for literature and studying it, learned a great deal about critical thinking and analysis. the stem subjects bore me to tears and furthermore i have no talent for them. if i lived my life thinking solely about maximising my earnings then i’d be very depressed.

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      1 year ago

      You chances of being miserable out of poverty would be way more though, if you’re not already well-endowed. You may not want so much to maximise your earnings, but you definitely don’t want to get stuck in a poverty cycle because of having an expensive non-marketable degree.

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        1 year ago

        I should add at this point I’m English. Student loans work a lot differently here, they’re written off completely if you’ve not paid them back after a certain age. You also don’t start paying them until you begin earning a certain amount.