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    Should I Go to College? What About Student Loan Debt?
    Should I Go to College? What About Student Loan Debt?
    Should I Go to College? What About Student Loan Debt?
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    Should I Go to College? What About Student Loan Debt?

    By C. S. Johnson

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    If you're a high school student, chances are you've been thinking about where you will go to college. Or if you will go to college at all. 
    I've been there. And as a former teacher, I've seen thousands of students there, too. So I wrote this book to help you. 


    This book offers sound advice about deciding whether or not you want to go to college, and, if you decide to go, how you can save yourself a lot of trouble along the way. 

    "This is the book about college I wish I had read when I was younger." – My 30-year-old self

    SHOULD I GO TO COLLEGE? WHAT ABOUT STUDENT LOAN DEBT?

     
    •Describes what college is 
    •Promotes thoughtful self-reflection 
    •Outlines your options post-high school 
    •Offers tragically hilarious truths about teaching
    •Reaffirms the code of personal responsibility 
    •Likens student loans to dragons that need to be slain


    ALL PROCEEDS OF THIS BOOK GO TOWARD HELPING STUDENTS PAY OFF THEIR STUDENT LOAN DEBT.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC. S. Johnson
    Release dateMar 14, 2019
    ISBN9781948464291
    Should I Go to College? What About Student Loan Debt?
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    C. S. Johnson

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    • 5/5
      Hi again, everyone!

      We all want to save the world, but there are so many problems that it seems like we just can't do it all. And you know what? That's true. No one can do everything.

      But everyone can do something, and this is my attempt to start.

      When I was a newly graduated college student, I had plenty of debt to pay off, and I did not know how I would do it. After getting my four-year degree, approximately 60K later, out of school, desperately searching for job and not finding one, I was terrified I would never be able to pay it all back.

      And since becoming an ex-Pat was out of the question, I had to scramble and work hard. Between this and rent and other bills, because we all need to eat, I had plenty of restless nights where I could only pray I would find a way to make it to the next day.

      Mental stress has never been my forte, and debt increased this weakness exponentially.

      When things got better, and my debt was paid off, and I finally managed to get a decent, if not ideal, work-life balance, I decided to write this book. ALL PROCEEDS ARE GOING TO OTHER NEW GRADUATES. Whether it's 50 or 500 dollars, repayments can be hard, and I'd love to be able to assist people by gifting them a month's reprieve for their student loan debt. With Amazon and the other retailers, the profit margin I will see with this ebook is about $6-8 a sale.

      This book is perfect for you if you:

      1) Have $10 to spare
      2) Think helping students with student loan debt stress is a good idea
      3) If you or someone you know is struggling with school debt
      4) If you are my friend and want to see me get this project up and running

      There are plenty of other reasons to buy it and give relief to someone who could use the help. I hope you check it out!

      Here's the Blurb:

      SHOULD I GO TO COLLEGE?
      WHAT ABOUT STUDENT LOAN DEBT?

      A Former Teacher’s Guide to Possibly Saving You Thousands of Dollars and Millions of Headaches


      If you’re a high school student, chances are you’ve been thinking about where you will go to college. Or if you will go to college at all.
      I’ve been there. And as a former teacher, I’ve seen thousands of students there, too. So I wrote this book to help you.
      This book offers sound advice about deciding whether or not you want to go to college, and, if you decide to go, how you can save time and money along the way.

      "This is the book about college I wish I had read when I was younger.” – My 30-year-old self

      SHOULD I GO TO COLLEGE? WHAT ABOUT STUDENT LOAN DEBT?
      •Describes what college is
      •Promotes thoughtful self-reflection
      •Outlines your options post-high school
      •Offers tragically hilarious truths about teaching
      •Reaffirms the code of personal responsibility
      •Likens student loans to dragons that need to be slain



      ALL PROCEEDS OF THIS BOOK GO TOWARD
      HELPING STUDENTS PAY OFF THEIR
      STUDENT LOAN DEBT.

      ***AUTHOR'S NOTE*** If you purchase the paperback, the Kindle version is free with your purchase. This makes it easy to read the book yourself, and you'll have a copy if you decide to give it to someone else -- or if you "lend" it to someone who doesn't return it.

      Happy reading, and all the best to you!

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    Should I Go to College? What About Student Loan Debt? - C. S. Johnson

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    If, in the event you cannot find what you are looking for, please read the chapter titles.

    PREFACE

    CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS COLLEGE, AND WHY SHOULD YOU PAY FOR IT?

    CHAPTER 2: STUDENT DEBT IN AMERICA

    CHAPTER 3: THE CASE FOR COLLEGE

    CHAPTER 4: COLLEGE OPTION #1: NO

    CHAPTER 5: COLLEGE OPTION #2: NOT YET

    CHAPTER 6: COLLEGE OPTION #3: YES, VARIATION ONE

    CHAPTER 7: COLLEGE OPTION #4: YES, VARIATION TWO

    CHAPTER 8: COLLEGE OPTION #5: YES, VARIATION THREE

    CHAPTER 9: COLLEGE OPTION #6: YES, NON-TRADITIONAL

    CHAPTER 10: PROACTIVE TIPS (NOT THE ACNE KIND)

    CHAPTER 11: REACTIVE TIPS (NOT THE RADIOACTIVE KIND)

    CHAPTER 12: CLOSING STATEMENTS

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    AUTHOR’S NOTE

    AUTHOR’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    PREFACE

    I WAS A TEACHER FOR A QUITE A LONG  time. I taught for about eight years, and while that might not seem like much, I can assure you that eight years is a long time—made even more so because . . . it’s teaching. The teaching profession in America is on the decline (I have made it a personal mission to make sure my children are not teachers, and I know I am not alone in this), and I am not the only one who has blamed more paperwork and more bureaucracy for this situation.

    Having firsthand knowledge, I can’t blame teachers for quitting. One can only take hearing the same excuses so many times (My grandmother was in the hospital, My computer got a virus, My family was eaten by a raging pack of rabid squirrels who’d gotten into my neighbor’s secret cannabis farm, etc.) before taking it personally. Of course you take it personally! It’s not like the actual insults—both to your face and behind your back—with all the implied and direct barbs, haven’t gotten to you. Nor has the disingenuous interest or the genuine apathy escaped your notice. Not to mention the rise of terrible administrators, the lack of a real support system, and the way so much pressure is put on students to work with computers and science. (Did you know that since STEM majors are the current IT girl ha! in education, English and History teachers also have to include assignments that touch on those subjects?) That’s not the only area, either. Since the culture is so obsessed with sex, it usually comes up in our conversations. I’ve had students asking if Louis XVI was gay or if Marshmallow Man was asexual, if Picard from that one Star Trek TV show had more or less sex than the average person because he was bald.

    But yes . . . multiple subjects are inserted into the topical classes just so we can pretend we’re doing right by our professional duties.

    So, as a teacher, you feel like the job you pursued in hopes of getting to talk to the next generation about your love of poetry or your obsession with historical dates has turned into a sales job, and you couldn’t care less about the product. There’s a reason an AT&T salesman won’t try to sell you cable while also offering you a discount on a treadmill and a free mounted animal head for your bathroom.

    Teachers today are largely overworked, underpaid, underappreciated, and overstressed. It’s easier to believe we can throw money at a problem to fix it, but that’s not true. You actually have to have people show up, and teaching is automatically handicapped, because the people who have to show up include students, parents, and sometimes the police or a social worker. And at any given moment, at least two of those three parties don’t come or don’t really want to come.

    Being a teacher in today’s world means choosing to be the George Costanza of career choices. (No offense, Jason Alexander.) You’re always upset about something that may or may not be your fault, you feel awkward and ugly and looked down on, and so much of other people’s lives and good humor depends on you.

    This has been my experience as a teacher. I was a teacher for eight years. The average number of years a teacher spends teaching in the classroom is five. Five.

    Why did I stay for so long? Stockholm syndrome comes to mind. 

    I also went to college, with my parents spending an obscene amount of money for my tuition while I personally borrowed more. During these years, I went to class, and worked through

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