• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I mean, for the subset of people who go to uni and can support themselves without also working a lot in that time, yeah.

      In my time at uni there was

      • work, at which the hours were inconsistent

      • coursework, which there was a lot of

      • constantly battling a shit landlord who didn’t give a toss about uni students and left the flat in disrepair, but the housing shortage meant he could get away with charging a fortune for a mouldy flat with broken windows and non-working appliances

      There was a lot of good, sure, but uni can be a very stressful time.

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          10 months ago

          There is a big range between “parents could save up for their kid’s college” and “parents own a large successful company”.

          I’m just some grunt working an office job, but I’m still lucky enough to be able to put away money for my kid’s college fund since they were born. I hope that they won’t need a job to get through college, when/if they go.

    • ancap shark@lemmy.today
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      10 months ago

      If you can afford not working, yeah. That wasn’t a reality for me or most people I know. Luckily I’m in a career that doesn’t value a major that much, so I dropped out after finding a decent job