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I'm 28, Have $100K In Student Loan Debt, & I Can't Find A Full-Time Job
Yahoo Finance News ^ | August 29, 2018 | Ludmila Leiva

Posted on 08/30/2018 9:12:49 AM PDT by 11th_VA

For Alexandria Butler-McDow, 28, going to university didn’t provide the freedom and financial security she'd hoped for. After graduating with an associate’s degree from the California Culinary Academy (CCA) in San Francisco, CA, in 2008, Butler-McDow struggled to find a job that would allow her to support herself and her disabled mother while also paying off her enormous student loan bill.

Hopeful that a more advanced degree would help her make more money and better manage her debt, Butler-McDow went on to pursue a bachelor’s degree in culinary nutrition, concentrating on clinical dietetics at Johnson and Wales University (JWU) in Providence, RI. By the time she had finished her second degree, Butler-McDow was even deeper in debt.

Now, nearly four years after graduating with her second degree, Butler-McDow (better known as Chef Alexandria at Better Taste Productions) is a Los Angeles-based chef and culinary consultant focusing on nutrition and education — and she is still six figures in debt. Though she has defaulted on her loans and deferred some of her payments, the end of this ordeal is still out of her reach. “We are sold the notion that getting an education is what will improve our socioeconomic standing,” Butler-McDow told Refinery29. “My degrees were supposed to bring me out of poverty but they’ve just anchored me.” ...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: debt; education; frauduniversity; governmentemployment; millennials; politicalclass; socialism; studentloans
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To: 11th_VA
After graduating with an associate’s degree from the California Culinary Academy (CCA) in San Francisco

A degree in cooking, music or art, without the natural talent to back it up is a recipe for failure. This is what happens when you tell people they are "special" and "you can be anything you want", instead of recognizing their strengths and weaknesses, and guiding them to a career within their limits.

41 posted on 08/30/2018 9:25:02 AM PDT by ETCM
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To: jyo19

You may be right. For those who think being “a cook” is easy, culinary school really teaches you how to manage restaurants - how to buy product, how to cut it up properly so that it serves 50 people IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY and serve exactly the same way. Culinary math is not for sissies. It was certainly my downfall and all I wanted to learn was how to properly chop and plate. (Did learn that!)


42 posted on 08/30/2018 9:25:24 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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Don’t most chefs make under $60,000 unless their the head chef?


43 posted on 08/30/2018 9:25:26 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: 11th_VA

Hi.

“After graduating with an associate’s degree from the California Culinary Academy (CCA) in San Francisco, CA”

$100k for an AA culinary degree!?

Something is missing in the story.

5.56mm


44 posted on 08/30/2018 9:25:30 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: JoSixChip; All
According to their website a 2 year degree without room and board is $60,00. With room and board it's $80,00.
Could she be one of those students who take out additional money on their student loan to finance their personal lifestyle?
45 posted on 08/30/2018 9:25:37 AM PDT by CaptainK ("no collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker")
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To: 2harddrive
"...Maybe you can sell YOURSELF..."

Well, she does have a degree in nutrition...

(evil grin)

46 posted on 08/30/2018 9:25:52 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: C19fan

“I see the problem right there. “

No, that’s not the problem.She could have gotten a job as a chef. Instead, she went back and got more degrees and deeper in debt.


47 posted on 08/30/2018 9:26:11 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: 11th_VA

She paid $100,000 for an associates degree???!!!! A two year program at a community college?


48 posted on 08/30/2018 9:26:18 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: 11th_VA
We are sold the notion that getting an education is what will improve our socioeconomic standing


49 posted on 08/30/2018 9:26:34 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: right way right
Socialists will run on student debt bailout promises. Just watch. Create problem, promise fix, destroy economy robbing from the rich, rinse, repeat.

And free college, so we will have even more kids who make hanging out at college a long term profession.

50 posted on 08/30/2018 9:26:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 11th_VA

1. Hyphenated name.
2. Lives in San Freaksicko.
3. Degree in cooking.
4. Belived tall tales about education being the sure route to financial success and then wants to blame someone else when the fantasy falls apart.

Sympathy score: approaching zero.


51 posted on 08/30/2018 9:26:53 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Snickering Hound

Obama went after vo-tech schools and tried to shut them down with onerous ‘Gainful Employment’ regulations that were designed to shut down 25% of them. Public four year universities were exempt of course. Eventually a federal judge threw the out the GE regs on the grounds of a lack of a rational basis. (The Deptartment of Education targeted the 25% shutdown and then worked the numbers backward to hit that target.)


52 posted on 08/30/2018 9:27:07 AM PDT by Gideon7
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To: jyo19

53 posted on 08/30/2018 9:27:10 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: 11th_VA

“Alexandria Butler-McDow”

Ahhh...one of those dashipanated name kind of folks.


54 posted on 08/30/2018 9:27:19 AM PDT by moovova
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To: 11th_VA

Being a dumbass has its drawbacks.


55 posted on 08/30/2018 9:27:36 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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To: JoSixChip

I wonder if she learned how to make me a sammich.


56 posted on 08/30/2018 9:27:48 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: NEMDF

At that age I was a TSgt about to sew on MSgt and letting Uncle Sam pay for my college degree.


57 posted on 08/30/2018 9:27:51 AM PDT by CMSMC
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To: C19fan

No problem. McDonald’s is hiring.


58 posted on 08/30/2018 9:27:54 AM PDT by moovova
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To: 11th_VA

She made several poor decisions. First, she took an unsubsidized loan, so interest accrued while she was in school and added to her principal. Second, she has deferred a number of times, further adding to her principal. Third, my suspicion is she borrowed more than she needed to (hey, free money, right?) Fourth, and not least, she didn’t select a degree program that would enable her to earn sufficient wages to pay for her other poor decisions. Who knew restaurant back-of-house staff make squat for wages? Umm, everybody!! Predictable snowball effect. And now she undoubtedly wants a bail out.


59 posted on 08/30/2018 9:28:41 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (God be greater than the worries in my life, be stronger than the weakness in my mind, be magnified.)
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To: 11th_VA
I have heard from those getting a BS in Biology that its near useless.

Here in Maryland there are endless numbers of jobs yet those with a biology BS get jobs selling things at the Mall or sometimes as a Personal Trainer(which again is sales)

Some Best careers here:
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60 posted on 08/30/2018 9:28:42 AM PDT by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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