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caraher

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10. That's tempting to second guess...

Fri Jan 31, 2014, 12:14 AM

Jan 2014

but I suspect had you gone the other route you'd just have a different set of regrets. Your principles don't pay the rent but they do allow you to look yourself in the mirror each morning knowing you have integrity!

Student loan debt is another horrible problem... Although I had a good stipend and part-time engineer for a spouse I've still got credit card debt from raising a family during grad school, and she has her own loan debt from a failed attempt to teach math in "high need" schools (it seems these career-change programs are feeders for programs, like charters, aimed at ending and not mending public education; she aced her coursework but couldn't get a job and is back in engineering).

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