Posted in Jobs You Can't Afford, tagged average loan debt, average salaries, careers, cost of law school, Hamline Law, Jobs You Can't Afford, law school, News, public defenders, student loans on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For my next installation in the ongoing Jobs You Can’t Afford series, I’m going to talk about Public Defenders. Public Defenders are government lawyers who work on behalf of people accused of crimes when those people cannot afford an attorney. You know the line from the crime shows, “If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be [...]
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Social workers play extremely important roles in many sectors of society from working with abused children to counselling drug and alcohol abusers. The pay isn’t great - over 20% of social workers make less than $30,000 a year - but social workers aren’t in it for the money; they’re in it to help people and to change [...]
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Posted in Jobs You Can't Afford, Stories, tagged becoming a chef, Jobs You Can't Afford, New York Times, Occupational Outlook Handbook, social control, student loans, The Nation, True Stories on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of my chief reasons for starting this blog was to highlight how much our career choices are affected by student loan debt. As The Nation once suggested, student loans have everything to do with social control, but it doesn’t always work out for the betterment of society:
How many young people turn away from low-paying but [...]
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