<p>I'm a high school senior and thanks to my "understanding" parents I have never had a job to start saving for college :( I am stressed because I haven't even begun preparing to pay for the debt I will have after college. I just want to scream. Is this situation as bad as it seems?</p>
<p>uh most people pay off those debts when they get real jobs that don’t pay a peasant’s wage. That last bit isn’t meant as a slight to anyone btw; the minimum wage in this country is god-awful and barely meets the cost of living for a single person.</p>
<p>Sorry I don’t mean to sound like a whiner. I’m just stressed when I see that I could have had 10k in the bank by now (had I been allowed to get a job) that could have gone to my education. I’m just a bit anxious about paying debts after college.</p>
<p>Instead of a job, you probably were involved in some other worthwhile endeavor that helped you get into university. There is plenty of time to work.</p>
<p>Actually, no there was no other “worthwhile endeavor” or reason not to work. Just controlling parents.</p>
<p>I somehow doubt you would have had “10k in the bank by now.”</p>
<p>In two years? Sure I could have and definitely would have had that by the time I enter college. I’m only talking 5k per year.</p>
<p>Eh, I’m just sorta venting and want to know if I am wrong about the importance of a job at this time.</p>
<p>it really isn’t that important.</p>
<p>There is local summer gig here that pays 2k for 2 weeks!!! Hard to get though and I am always gone…
But 10k isnt that hard in two years. I know kids who bring in 7k a summer or more!</p>
<p>You’ll be fine. Lots of kids have never had a job as a high school senior. A part-time job won’t be going towards student loans for the most part, it will be going towards living expenses. </p>
<p>Also, don’t even try to tell me that you wouldn’t have spent any of the money you would have made at a job in high school. At the very least you would have had to pay for your transportation to said job. Most kids who had jobs in high school don’t have extensive savings, they just had a bit more money in their pockets during high school.</p>
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<p>My parents told me not to get a job in high school because college was “taken care of,” and then when it came time for applications we realized nobody ever mentioned that my parents apparently don’t believe in education past an associates. Yikes! I got my first job summer after senior year of high school. Not the end of the world.</p>
<p>There is always scholarships too dude.</p>
<p>I’ve been working since I was 14. I can tell you that I had no where near 10k in the bank when I started school. </p>
<p>Even if I had, that would have paid for less than one semester of school.</p>