Recovery threatened by runaway student loan debt

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28. Some bachelors degrees are worth more than others on the day after graduation.

I have a friend who earned a Bach of Art in Psychology, a great field of study. But no one told him that he would have to spend more than the $40k+ to get a position better than a 3rd shift "Tech" at the County Mental Unit, which paid $8.75 per hour at the time. It was a government job. In order to earn respectable money, he would have had to get his Masters and PhD, which would cost him another 30k minimum.

Degrees in most humanities do not pay for themselves. It's a nasty little secret that's not really a secret. I don't know how to fix it but I know it's there. Through personal experience I find many people that have degrees based in the humanities (English, History, Sociology, Psychology, etc.) have to work in unrelated fields to pay the bills.