OT: The "Let's buy Abram a Leica Fund!"

[cp_ste.croix]

I'll contribute to yours if you contribute to mine 🙂

And Steph, there are always student loans if you're serious about getting a degree. I know it can be tough when you get into a rut, but the only thing to do is to get yourself out of it. When we truly want something, we find ways of making it happen. It's all about long term thinking.

 

[Nick R.]

Steph,
I know some really successfull people who have GED's, including a past president of the local school board. You say you live near a community college. Why aren't you enrolled?

 

[agoglanian]

student loans can be amazingly helpful, thats the only way i was able to go to the school i did.
now i gotta pay em back! . darnit.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I'll contribute to yours if you contribute to mine 🙂

And Steph, there are always student loans if you're serious about getting a degree. I know it can be tough when you get into a rut, but the only thing to do is to get yourself out of it. When we truly want something, we find ways of making it happen. It's all about long term thinking.

Right now, money. Being in debt, they won't give me a loan. And this is from me not paying while I wasn't working...so it's worse than it would be had it just been a normal credit card debt. The max on the card was only $300.

 

[cp_ste.croix]

Yeah, my loans just went into repayment as well, and while it is hard right now (I definitely won't be buying any new gear soon), I know that I am moving in a positive direction, and that in a year or two, I'll be able to treat myself to something really special.

Some Universities/colleges also have workstudy/co-op programmes that help you find work and experience while attending school. And there is a huuuuge shortage of trades people right now and funding available for said programmes (in Canada at least).

Best of luck...

 

[cp_ste.croix]

You can't get a student loan while in debt? I know lines of credit and private loans may be out of the question, but if you can enroll in a programme, you should qualify for funding. Of course, I don't know your situation specifically, so I could be wrong. In that case, you have my understanding, as I too am in debt up to my eyeballs...

 

[Frank Granovski]

Work one month, buy a NEW Leica. Vancouver needs construction trade people (carpenters) like crazy, plus they pay like crazy up here.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Ahhh. I feeel ze lov. It is so fooosyy and varm.

student loans can be amazingly helpful, thats the only way i was able to go to the school i did.
now i gotta pay em back! . darnit.

It's what keeps the economy chuggin'. It really pays to get a scholarship, literally, but oh well, I'm stuck with my own loan payments. It's so much easier when mom and/or dad pay for stuff when you're in college. I paid it all myself, however, not a penny from anywhere else. Most people who get help from their family don't realize how not easy it is to "just go to college".

Money money money; the real Tower of Babel.

 

[agoglanian]

gabriel. you hit the nail on the head right there my friend.

 

[bobofish]

Tell me about it.

I had free tuition at a private school, thanks to my step-father having been a professor there. All through the education, they told me "yup, free tuition forever!"

So I took my time...I took some of this, took some of that, went abroad, came back and took some other things, went abroad again, took some more of some other things, and

WOOPS "no, the free tuition is only until you are 24, and since you missed the deadline on student body payments by one day, you are not eligible to attend this semester."

So on my very last semester of college, I found out I had no more free tuition...not only CAN I not come up with $10,000 but I won't....the only reason I went to that college was because it was free.

So now I'm stuck; either I challenge the courses for a reasonable sum, give in and pay through the nose for one last semester, or damn that college and transfer to a a public university where they will give me free tuition and a stipend in return for teaching; however at the expense of at least one year of seniority.

The Tower of Babel indeed....or often the Tower of the Babbling.

 

[Poptart]

Pay and go.

 

[aizan]

student loans suck.

 

[Socke]

Users: 4,339
Donations: $0.03 <--- Update

If each and every one of you were to donate just $1 to my cause, I could afford quite a nice starting kit of Leica Gear.

you know you want to do it guys.


:angel:

What do you think about a trade? A Leica M2 in user condition against your Canon 5D?

 

[Socke]

maybe i could sell my shadow on ebay, like some guy did one time. I have a really cool shadow ya know. its too bad he has better telephoto lenses than me... jerk.

You need a telephoto for your shaddow? Man, you must be much taller than I am.

 

[Nick R.]

I just read an article in The Village Voice regarding the sallie mae company and student loans. The upshot of the story as I read it was to do anything but borrow from sallie mae. It is the modern version of the company store where one is in debt for life except here the government can't step in to help because their the ones running the store.

 

[dostacos]

shhhh *[activate]Jedi Mind Trick[/activate]* you didnt see my signature.



this post was meant to be taken lightheartedly...

and if they only donated 25 cents to ME I could get the R2 that I lust for but won't go out and buy myself 😛 😱

 

[Byuphoto]

Once again, Steph. I say look into either the air force photography school or the Navy. You get paid/ can go to community college while in and you will have money for a real college when you get out. Right now you can get up to a $7000 signing bonus when you join. and they do accept GED's. As a bounus you get to see places you would have never went to and if you like it you can retire in twenty years just as I should have done

 

[kbg32]

Steph, if you enroll in a local college, you can get a student loan or some other kind of loan /grant. There are many available. Go to your local library and ask to see information on obtaining grants for education. You'd be surprised as to what is available. That's how I got through college and grad school. I had a couple of student loans as well. Your personal credit card debt won't matter. $300 while is something to you, it is nothing as to getting yourself ahead.

 

[dr.kollig]

Leica is waiting for you

Leica is waiting for you

Sure, it is waiting in hell, it is a Digital Fuji, labelled as a Leica, using cards which will not be used anymore, outdated software and 1.5 MP resolution.

Oh, wait, looks like the one next room, mmh, does it mean I live close to Leica hell 😉

Wolfram

 

[Socke]

Once again, Steph. I say look into either the air force photography school or the Navy. You get paid/ can go to community college while in and you will have money for a real college when you get out. Right now you can get up to a $7000 signing bonus when you join. and they do accept GED's. As a bounus you get to see places you would have never went to and if you like it you can retire in twenty years just as I should have done

Ouch! When I joined the german navy in 1980 this was an option. After seven from eight years I had the 8th with full pay for my education and a another 18 month at 2/3 pay. Plus an allowance for books and a typewriter (hey, that was 1988).

But the german navy was pretty safe then, just one crash with a british destroyer at Portland Bil.

Whe met a US frigate, the USS Glover, since retired, first in Germany and a year later in Charleston. I had a chance to serve two weeks on that ship. They had a sign hanging in the First Class Mess
"Join the navy,
see the world,
meet different people
.
.
and kill them."

The seabees where even worse 🙂