[17th Miss Regt]

The philosophy major concedes that his student loan balance of around $20,000 isn't as large as the burden shouldered by many other borrowers, but he said his difficultly finding a college-level job in the U.S. has made that debt oppressive nonetheless. "If you're not making a living wage," Haag said, "$20,000 in debt is devastating."

As a philosophy major he should be seeking the truth. And the truth is that a philosophy degree will generally get you a job that does not pay very well.

He struggled to come up with the $300 a month he owed. The first work he found after he graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 2011 — when the recession's effects were still palpable — was on-again, off-again hours at a factory, unloading trucks and constructing toy rockets on an assembly line.

The truth should now have been obvious to him.

He then went back to school to pursue a master's degree in comparative literature at the University of Colorado Boulder.

But as you succinctly put it, he doubled down on stupid by following a philosophy degree up with a master’s in creative writing.

And he has still not found the truth.

[Chickensoup]

but he said his difficultly finding a college-level job in the U.S. has made that debt oppressive nonetheless

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this is the money-quote.

a college level job. What the heck is that?

You work and you make your way.

Your character determines the jobs you obtain.