I never had big dreams as a young person and I worked at Starbucks and I was happy. One day I decided to go to law school to improve myself. Four years later and I am unemployed and in extreme debt. My shitty car just crapped out and I can no longer afford rent or anything. I wish I could just take a time machine back to when I was making minimum wage and not in debt, I may have been a peon in society but I was happy. The debt is just too much, no one will hire me, I hate schmoozing and networking. I have no money to start a business/law firm. All I wanted to do was go to school and get out and help people. Even getting a shitty job in public interest is as likely as winning the lottery. My confidence is gone and I think pretty soon I will just give up. The one thing I do have is great friends and killing myself would hurt them so they are keeping me here. I know that money is not a good reason to kill yourself but I’m terrified right now. Law school cause me to lose my mental, physical, emotional and financial help. I am not angry, I take the blame for everything, it was foolish to expect to get a job in this economy. Deciding to get an unmarketable degree was my choice and it was a grave miscalculation which might cost me my life.
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What happens if you don’t pay your debt right away or if you don’t pay it at all? In my case, I owe $200.000 dollars in hospital bills from being in the hospital. What are they going to do to me besides ruining my credit which was already ruined anyway?
I think you did great by choosing to go to school. I wish I had made that choice. Things might look bad now but you’ll get better opportunities later. I know the situation is tough but I am sure you’ll be able to solve it. Not having a degree, in my case, might cause me my life. What an irony.