man if you can survive off $30k a year and be happy, more power to you. i wouldnt even be able to rent a closet and drive a dependable car on a $30k salaryhonda237;3895873;3895873 said:
Aquatic college degree?
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thats not much money at all, it wouldn't be enough to even cover your education. state troopers in NY make 90k right out of the academy.
hey if you combine it with a wife that is making 40k, that is 70k a year
plus i would go to a masters degree.
plus i would go to a masters degree.
yeah but thats the thing, you need YEARS of school and big loans to even be able to make what is considered real money.Pomatomus;3895884;3895884 said:
ill use accounting field as an example, since thats what i know. all you need is a B.S with CPA certification. working in public accounting for one of the Big 4 with 5-8 yrs experience you can be making well over $129k. and thats with just a BS. no masters, no phd, no ridiculous school loans.
jump out of public accounting as an audit manager and go into the industry in SEC reporting/Controller for a big company, a few more years and jump to a CFO position. BAMM, your making almost half a million dollars a year.
all the while youd still be finishing up your phd for marine biology
well what if your dads poor and you qualify for full fasfa to pay for your school? makes it cheaper, but accounting doesn't sound bad.
here is so advice on your last post. Look hard around you to see what happens when couples go a buy a nice big house in a development etc.. with their combined incomes then what happens when one loses their job that means the other can not afford it. I have friends in this situation that if he would lose his job making 75 g's etc (a lot of overtime which people rely on also) his wife could not even afford the basics of insurance, property taxes & up keep on her income. When I advised my idea buying on one income instead of two, he said we can just sell it & get more $ for it! Well he is lucky he still has his job because he would lose money on it now! I bought a house for about 75 gs less then I was approved for on just my income & i'm glad I did not go get some big mortgage payment.
just my 2 cents
just my 2 cents
Ph.D programs (and many masters programs) for marine biology pay you a $10,000 - $30,000 stipend for your TA or RA position as well.
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That was a true statement, completely forgot about that. You can't predict the future.
your lucky if you get a full ride on fafsa alone, however you must not be going to a big school because typically fafsa covers only 5k a semester. the whole idea of fafsa makes me angry, my family made decent money one year (father was around 75k, and mom and step dad were at 75k) however 75g's in RI is not that much, and my mom is so backwards in debt that neither of them have anything to show for it. Because on paper they make a decent amount of money, they in no way had 6 grand laying around to help me pay for school, and they don't consider you an independent student until after the age of 21. I simply see this as a way the poor make wayyyyyy to much money off of the system and go nowhere with it ( two of my friends would enroll in classes get there refund checks of over 2k, go blow it and drop out of classes)
