Should I Go Back To School As A Single Mom?
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2021
- Should I Go Back To School As A Single Mom?
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who runs the account ?
I am honestly disgusted by some of these comments. Why has our country turned on each other. Everyone thinks they are better than the next person. SMH…
This young lady is aware of her situation. I'm glad she realizes that at least.
Wasn’t aware about the consequences of being pregnant at an early age tho 🤷♂️
@@megapham1 she was married at least. Give her a break. We don’t know what her situation was.
@@megapham1 🤔 Separation and single parenting could happen to someone at any age. 🤷🏾♀️
@@NashvilleBraids having kids without being financially stable is being stupid 😂🤡
She is in a great situation, gets food stamps, child support and lives in assisted living. So our tax dollars will keep her afloat while she tries to get an education.
Very wholsome to see people actually trying to get out of poverty
I appreciate her honesty. I have never heard a caller admit that the Pell Grant is the reason they are in college.
I hope she listens to this video again and again because I'm not sure she completely absorbed this info in this short call.
An economics degree is kind of like a degree in math or physics. It doesn’t indicate a clear job you will get with it unlike accounting or computer science, but it does help teach you how to think critically.
Very true. I know someone who has degrees in mathematics, he's unemployed. But he does make sure everyone at parties know about his math degrees, so they know how smart he is. I have a degree in accounting and get recruiters weekly contacting me about jobs in accounting, banking, financing and about every other industry you can think of.
An economics degree with the right elective courses and using the clubs and organizations at the college to network can be fantastic!
@@kensmith2796 Mathematics is one of the best undergrad degrees out there for employment so if your friend is unemployed there is another reason for that.
People don’t need a degree to think critically!! 🤦♂️
@@mikebrownbassist802 No, but it helps tremendously when you are trying to command a high salary to think critically.
Kids are so expensive
Love how these two men are lifting her up and painting a picture of a higher path for this young woman.
I gotta say, I think Ken and Dave knocked it out of the park on this one. I generally don't agree with many things Dave says about debt, loans and college. However, I think he was spot on with this one. Kudos to this young woman for trying to turn her life around with kids in tow while she's still young. I'm surprised Dave mentioned that nugget about families in poverty that will keep you down. That was a truth bomb I wasn't expecting from Dave!
Having children ages you. She sounds older than most 23 year old's
It aged me at least 10 years.
@dwh dude, most 24 year olds look like teenagers regardless of how healthy their lifestyle is. I looked like a baby until I turned 26 and my adult face finally set in. How old people perceive you is almost entirely do to your genetics and behavior, and you and I shouldn’t shame someone for looking older than their age as some kind of moral failing when aging is just a natural process.
It’s hard to buy good, healthy food when you’re poor.
I LOVE that she is so self aware and being responsible for her life! I know she can do it and I hope they follow up on her! I wish her only the best!
I hope this lady doesnt fall prey to loans. 🙏
I made that mistake. Im going back and going to avoid them like the plague
I commend this lady because this is exactly what the social programs are supposed to be for they're supposed to help you when you need it to help you get to a place where are you don't need it and that is exactly what she is focusing on and trying to achieve if more people tried to do this when they got in these positions their lives would end out much better and so with their children's lives having said that I wish her the best of luck and all of her endeavors
Social programs? She want to get student loans... "financial aid". I have heard that she may be able to get free daycare but I don't think she will get a free ride. When they get in these positions???? You mean having multiple kids and a dead end job. And Dave tells her to be on public assistance... doesn't she have a job?
Sounds like she had kids when she shouldn’t have and now she wasn’t a to spend more free money to maybe do school
@@Dotachin Child's father most likely was the man that tickled her fancy, not the man that she wanted for stability. 5'7 Brandon in sales with no criminal record and stability doesn't rev the engine like 6'4 Chad night stocker at Lowe's w/ a felony and tats.
@@Dotachin Maybe she is trying to break the cycle. It's so easy to be judgemental. It's cheap. She is TRYING to better her situation. Why degrade someone for that?
I can’t even with these comments. We can’t be quick to judge. There are women leaving unhealthy abusive relationships. Women who have been cheated on. Death of a spouse. What have you. There are millionaires that started out in poverty as well. People don’t want to stay stuck in that situation and with the widening gap of middle class and rich there are more people ending up on public assistance than most are aware of.
She sounds like me. I was a single mom, who went back to school. The best advice I could give, try to get a job AT the school you want to continue your education.
Go to nursing school and if she goes on for a law degree she'd be excellent for medical cases. If not, set for life as an RN. She could get an Associate Degree in nursing then have a hospital pay for her Bachelors, most do that, that's what I did.
I’d do that but I don’t like being around sick people 🤢. I’m also a not very nurturing person.
Why are you assuming she wants to go to nursing school?
@@blackbutterfly233ify She didn't mention it and I never said she did. Read before making such a stuid comment. Dave and George were discussing other career choices rather than the one she chose for a better option. I mentioned nursing as other people are posting their suggestions.
@@eckankar7756 I read your comment. It was baseless as any other comment. I never said she mentioned it. I never said you mentioned it. You were the only one who brought up nursing school. They were discussing career planning in relation to LAW SCHOOL. nursing school doesn't equate to law school at all. She would have to start over again.
@@blackbutterfly233ify Again you've missed the discussion Dave and George had had and my comment in relation to RN and a law degree. Do you have ADD? Maybe you should just tune in to a cartoon channel and be amused at that level.
I did the same. I got a economics degree thinking I was going to law school. I ended up being an accountant and had to take more classes.
Considering the earning potential of a degree is so important. Earning a degree that has high-yielding job prospects is important, especially if life throws her a curve-ball and law-school doesn't work out down the road. Wishing her luck!
Couldn't agree more. She has to look out for herself and her kids.
While I agree with you but IMHO, it is the individual as much as the degree. I have a family member who graduated in African drumming.... today she is successful. I have a 8 year old and I want her to study anything she wants, I will be paying for her school (already saved the money) and all I can do now is try to point her towards STEM but in the end it will be her decision.
Go to nursing school and if she goes on for a law degree she'd be excellent for medical cases. If not, set for life as an RN
@@eckankar7756 why do people advocate for nursing school like it's the educational answer for money problems? Do you have any idea how hard the nursing program is, from all schools?
Accounting and law.
I have a Prelaw/History degree. If I had it to do again, I would probably have chosen something more practical, but after selling cars for a few years, I did go to law school and am 23 years into that career. I may be the only one, but I love it...most of the time.
Good for you James.
JD Byrider? BHPH?
I went to the law school John Deloney worked at. Don't go to law school. I didn't listen when other attorneys told me when I was in college. The stress and starting low pay isn't worth it. Do IT or nursing.
I hope she gets out of her situation!!!
I just landed a job 50 hours a week , training on the job as a machinist. Pay is excellent. Ive never used tools before. All this to say check out whats in your area!!!
Your going to make it!!!!!! Hugs from Michigan!
How do you get that??
@@candyluna2929 I was randomly out looking for work, dressed up for interviews. I saw a sign on the side of the road that said "hiring now". I walked in and asked for the interview. Hired me on the spot! I'm still there!
What about a single mother of four with absolutely no help I’m starting soon and I am trying to avoid student loans but it doesn’t seem possible.
Same here. Not possible
Thank you for being brave to call this in. I am thinking the same things.
Not having support is hard to have and find
If you are set on Law School but don't have a major decided for your undergrad do STEM (Science Technology Engineering or Maths) because that opens up the (amazingly lucrative) Patent Bar later on.
Hopefully they guide her to a better track. Quitting work and taking student loans for an economics degree is a very bad plan. I happen to have earned an engr degree while raising a child as a custodial single parent. It was not easy. I was foolish to take out student loans, which I had still not paid off when I took out more for that same child in college. Fortunately I saw the light of greater financial wisdom with the help of Dave, and now my wife and I are putting our two younger children thru college with cash.
Starbucks has a good college achievement plan for the first bachelor’s degree. Wishing her the best on her journey!
I'm taking advantage of that program. It's a good one and its great if you need flexibility.
Starbucks, Target, FedEx and Verizon
my message to schools is this , STOP PROMISING THESE WONDERFUL JOBS TO PEOPLE IF THEY TAKE YOUR PROGRAM AND THEN WHEN THEY FINISH STANDING THERE WITH YOUR FINGER IN YOUR NOSE SAYING "I DONT KNOW". its wrong to do that .
Take online classes and gain experience
I hope from this point forward she starts making decisions that only make her life better. What people don’t realize is that you have to do a lot of research into the degree that you want. A lot! I changed my major so many times because I wanted to make sure that I was in a field that was growing that had a good job prospects and a great salary. Two kids at 23 years old I don’t know how the heck she’s doing that
My recommendation is do anything you can online. I don't have children but since going back after the vaccine came out, they have not been kind and flexible as they were with my school schedule. If I had children or had to pay for housing I would have definitely had to take off time from school to catch up because of the reduction in hours at work they were asking of me to do with no consideration of my situation. Before going into school and pre 2020, I knew that was the case: they want you in a building when they could easily present this information in the comfort of your home and done on your time.
No loans! No loans! No loans! No loans! No loans! No loans! No loans! No loans! No loans! No loans! No loans! No loans!
She can totally do this. ✊🏼🎉 Congratulations in advance ✨
I’m not judging her at all but it is going to be tough but I love her positivity. She kept it all the way real.
Wow, I needed to hear that. I'm in the same boat. The only thing I have is a mortgage to pay. But I have tenants helping me. But thank you.
Inspiring advice gentlemen...
You CAN go to Junior College and it's soooo much cheaper to do It takes longer Depending on what your main course is However if you take University Night school classes you are getting actually what Is required basically If it's for Lookie it's expensive
always find the job or career first, then a degree to match the field. too many people go for a degree with no /lower than expected paying jobs
As a guy who’s about to finish up an Economics degree, I feel that this is halfway wrong. Economics majors usually make some of the highest salaries out of school compared to other majors, but it is a harder degree - especially for a single mom. I’d say a business degree would be good if she needs a checkbox certification for a degree and she can get it fast. An economics and law school combination goes well too, but like they said she may not actually go into law. That being said, I plan on getting an MBA in Finance so my resume may look a little different 🤷🏽♂️
She should work at the university she is going to attend and also get a discount on tuition.
Some university jobs don’t require degrees like in the office etc
Get a degree in Nursing, Accounting. or STEM. Or, stay married.. Geez.
Thank you for thinking you know something. But my significant other is struggling with some mental health issues and staying with him isn’t the best for my health or our kid’s health. He’s also in poverty. So, I did what was hard to get my family where it needs to be. ❤️
You're welcone.
Trades make more than lawyers....
Only lazy lawyers! An attorney willing to hustle can clear $200K or more. Ever priced a DUI? Most of those are blind cookie cutter filings, but they charge like defending OJ.
Good evening gentleman! I have an Associate in Applied Science Secretarial Science from 1984 my dad paid for (Thank God!)!
Yo! I have a degree in economics and a minor in mathematics, you can get a good job with that… you just have to make sure you build your technical skills along the way lol. But yes it’s very important to have good prospects if your plan doesn’t go well
Honestly I was shocked to find the average economist makes more than the average engineer, so I'd be willing to bet John (and Dave, who took his word) thinks that economists are mostly just found in academic settings or something. They really missed the mark here. With the right skills you can make serious money!
I have a degree in math and a minor in cs and I'm over here struggling 😂😂😂.... what world are you in? Lol
@@georgemendez6760 dude you can get Ana analyst job with that, knowing math and programming languages
@@lmelior haha wow that’s crazy. Yeah I have a very good opportunity with my current company given my age, experience and region of the US (and remote work). You just gotta get the skills they need
@@lmelior I wonder if you're including financial engineering as economics.... those people are insane lol
Economics coupled with a business minor could be a fantastic springboard especially if you can get the right connections
I needed to hear this
“Student loans will make sure you stay in poverty” great line Dave the goat
First job out of college, in 1980, $100K/year including bonus.
In 2000, I worked with young people making $200K, all expenses paid.
One young woman was sending $10K/month>>$120K/yr
Do your research before you go to law school. A lot of lawyers regret this decision due to their massive student loan debt and what they earn. Better to get an accounting or finance degree. I hope you make your dream come true but this a long road ahead and with children…. Tough place to be and I hope you push thru everyday single day!! God bless
Did anyone else get excited for Dave's reaction when she said student loans are tempting? haha
Stay away student loans but she does not have much $$$. Praying for her!
I commend her. You got this girl!!
I so needed this. I'm in the same boat and I have no help.
School is not an easy road....but, without it, life is so much harder.
I am also on same boat. Single mom with two kids, only much older. And not quality for loan or grant....and I am making what most Americans make, middle class.
My advice is become a plumber, electrician, nurse or a radiologist.
Why don't you have any help?
@@chartuck I can tell you that me and my wife have no help... my mom lives out of country but she is in such bad medical shape that she can't help. My wife's family are pretty terrible people and she does not want their help even if it was given. You can't pick your family.
@@johnSmith-uz8nl True. Idk, most of the people I see with help aren't as appreciative if they had to do it all on their own. And help *usually* comes with parents that overstep their boundaries. My parents live an hour and a half away, are good people, but I never ask for their help and they never ask if I need help. I have been independent since I was 16. My dad and I will go to dinner once and awhile and will facetime once a week, that's the extent of my "help".
My question from the other poster on why they don't have any help is because they said "they are in the same exact boat and have no help", so my question was more along the lines of where is the child's father in circumstances where they have no help. As most of your help when parenting should come from each parent. I have a preeeeeeetty good idea where the child's father is in the case of the caller, and the original poster.
I'm about to have a daughter and I will provide for her, both financially and physically and not ask my family for help. It's never a bad thing to be able to do it all on your own.
NEVER GET A DEGREE IN ECONOMICS!!! Worthless!!!
Should have called Aaron Clarey
I agree a degree will help. However this woman doesn't have to be sentenced to a life of minimum wage if she doesn't get one. There are places she can get a good pay job without a degree, and possibly have a benefit at that job, of tuition assistance. Like where I work. I don't have a degree but I started out answering the phone, and made well above minimum wage, and have worked my way up to a good position. My company does offer tuition reimbursement as a benefit as well if I wanted to go back and get a degree.
I think the culture of college has changed. There are people of all ages going back to school. No worries of being the old lady.
Its always been that way... it's only in movies where they portray college like an endless frat party
Is it worth getting a masters in social work potentially having to pull student loans. I’m currently in poverty with no support as a single mom. Unfortunately I got a bfa 10 years ago and I’m tired of dead end work resulting in poverty.
23? She sounds like she's 43.
Love John’s advice!
Wow. How selfish. And delusional don’t ya think?
Sell the kids
I am a single mom with two kids considering of going back to school. But, not quality for grant or student loan.
So pay for it... if you don't qualify for student loans it must because you have wealth. Student loans are not for people who can afford it.
Look into WGU. Very affordable school. I don’t quality for student loans and definitely not because of my income but for other reasons. I am a single mom and work full time. WGU provides me with the flexibility to do school while still being able to care for my children and they can even set up a tuition payment plan with you. Good luck!
@@rosx3245 Rose, I don't think a online school is the answer. How many doctors, engineers, lawyers graduate this way? If it worked for you... great and Dave will tell you that people will not look into your school... but I disagree. If this is a stepping stone to do your masters in a IN person school, I would say smart.
@Lana Love I think employers will look at the degree for the first job... after that, it is all about job experience. But I do agree with you... times are changing.
A degree in economics is essentially worthless for anything other than getting into an advanced degree program. She needs a degree that will give her a JOB that she can work while pursuing additional training. The most obvious is nursing because that can always lead to a job anywhere. Get an associate degree. MANY hospitals will pay for their employees to pursue the BS while working and agreeing to work for them for a certain period afterward; if she doesn't like that commitment, keep using Pell for the BS. Then move on to law school. ANY degree can get you into law school, but not any degree can result in a job while you are doing it.
Also, automation fields in law.
TaxPayers will pay 100% for ALL of her expenses, child-care, foo-stamps, clothing for her & her kids, transportation etc etc etc.
She will receive outright gifts of cash (grants), never having to take out any loans.
Dave doesn't know how single/welfare mamas get a FREE ride "to go to school".
Yeah I'd rather spend more taxpayer money on wars and corporate tax breaks. i.e. welfare.
Get a degree in data analytics in finance. Something technical in Law, but not accounting. Good luck.
Get that daddy on child support
Most social programs require going after the father for child support.
So either A) she's getting child support but it's a super low amount because Chad makes $10/hr working nights at Home Depot or B) they haven't been able to find the father
The dad is in the county jail so he can’t work. 😂
@@MrBrewman95 how do you know?
@@chartuck or C, no name on birth cert. and still in her life
Daddy is paying me child support thanks
EXCELLENT advice.
John’s wrong here. Economics degree is HIGHLY valuable.
My husband has one. What can he do with it?
@@adrianmechelle3784 Actuary is a good field.
She should crawl back on her hands and knees back to her husband, for the good of her kid and herself, and for the rest of us subsidizing her lifestyle
so if she has a loveless, sexless marriage, that's ok with you right?
The timing made me think this was OF related
LOL could be.
“Student loans will guarantee you stay in poverty.” This is abjectly false.
Really 😂 please explain
so what's an ideal career for a single mother. 30. emotional set backs from childhood. but i do have a cna license
Get a degree in economics to do what?
Doesn't make economical sense to go into debt for an econ degree. lol
Accounting way better. Every business needs accounting.
This is so sad.
The big elephant here is the kid's dad that's if he fathered both kids. All of this about her college degree, work is a bit irrelevant. From what she described, the father isn't involved in his kid's lives and that's unacceptable.
She picked him!
@@alinatamashevich3354 yes and now he's fully responsible for those kids.
@@front331 Good luck with that! Most pick a Chad or Tyrone who is judgement proof and or incarcerated.
Ramsey advice sounds good, but... What she will probably do is sleep around trying to get some dude to marry her and she will end up having another baby adding up har list of responsibilities
She should go into accounting
Where are these scholarships??
What a train wreck!!!
Where is the dad? The county jail?
Probably at his 4th job so he can afford CS.
You can not afford school
These comments are horrible….
(Just don’t become a feminist!)
Make sure your kids feel like they are part of this and don’t lose their mom to this dream
My daughter knew that I was at night school after working 40 hrs/week.
At times when I couldn't find a babysitter, I would take her to class and sit in the back. I couldn't stop and feel sorry for myself because of my decisions. I had to find a solution.
Way to go, Super Woman!!! Keep up the good work.
Single mom on 23y.
Yep.
Some people never learn from other people mistakes.
_Why should they?_
A fool learns from their own mistakes
I wise man learns from others mistakes
And a wiser man still, learns from history
Some people have to learn for themselves-I'm the youngest in my family and I had to learn so I could break the cycle. I am teaching my daughter and grandkids to do the same, and do better. I also do my best to educate the staff I supervise the same way.
She is getting a divorce. She didn't start out as a single mother
Study Spanish 📖
Oh lawd... don't go to law school. For any single mom, don't do what this woman did. Don't run to school with no direction. Get your real estate license and then you have flexible hours with your two babies and you don't need to go into debt for the license.
Why would you assume she wants to work in real estate? Not even Dave Ramsey tells people to do that
@@blackbutterfly233ify "want" is for adults with no responsibility, but to themselves. She has two kids and no spouse, time to grow up and find a profession that fits her current situation. Law school isn't it.
She's blessed to be living off tax payers.
😁😁
At least she wants to change it. We should want to help our people
Only if its for a tube degree.
“Don’t raise minimum wage” - why not raise it to a wage that someone can actually LIVE on it?
It’s disgusting. 2021 and only making $10.21
Single mother, for the love of all that is holy. Be a mother FIRST! Stop hiding your dreams and asperations behind, " A better life for my kids." Your job is to them now more then ever, they NEED you there!
She can go to school and be a mother to her kids. 🙄🙄🙄
@@blackbutterfly233ify No one parent can make an enviroment that is condisive to a childs best possible upbringing. You habe 24hrs in a day, you will habe a full time job and go to school, these will take priority over the scultping and raising of your child. This is not a reasonable life path for people, and it is unacceptable to then turn to the child tell them they must understand the situation and deal with it.
SAYS THE NARCISSIST AND MYSOGINIST
“Be a mother first.” She’s always going to be a mother, but her kids need to eat and she’s currently living in poverty.
@@thekiaradanielle Its almost like you shouldnt bring life into this world, vefore youve settled into life yourself.
$10/hr, food stamps, and public housing, but says she's blessed.
everyones blessing doesnt look the same. shes surviving with her kids has her health and is motivated.
"Wow, winningggg"
She is indeed blessed. She could be homeless.
@@shola7987 Amen Shola. Yes, thank God her and her children have a roof over their heads and food.
At least she doesn't have to pay rent right now.
😎👌✌👍🖖😁
Why are you a single mom?
'Cuz she's heroic!
🥹🥹🥹💗
Mommy's at school. Mommy's at work. Mommy is too tired to play. Why has this been normalized? Its destroying kids. Women need to choose better partners and choose them for life. The single mother stuff has wrecked everything.
The problem is the fact that we place all the responsibility on Mothers. Maybe we can also teach men to be responsible as well and make better choices for their families
The deadbeat dad stuff has wrecked everything. If the woman is left to do everything, what do you expect? And a woman can be a single mom even in marriage and/or should that marriage ever end. Men are just not good partners anymore. Even more so in the black race.
I have medical issues from the high amount of stress from this
When women don’t know what to do they go to school
Preach
All women?? There's nothing wrong with furthering your education.
When they don't know what to do they get knocked up.
When i didn't know what I wanted to do I just worked any job until I did lol
@@crazykaitlyn PERFECT!!! You set up and keep that momentum turning then take opportunity when it opens up for you!!
I was working minimum wage at a convince store, we had many Cosmetology students frequent the store for snacks. Got me thinking I could do that and I went to school and became a hairdresser making lots more money. Later I was doing a lot of nurse's hair and that motivated me to go to nursing school. now I'm an RN. Who would have guessed it???
When you set up that momentum the Universe will reveal benefits and advantages for your next step to take.
Please stop crapping out kids you can't afford.
Sincerely,
Everyone
She should start an onlyfans.
At least til October. 😂
Much better advice than the slop these to simps ladled out!
Risky move but _why not_
@@saulgoodman2018 the simp has entered the chat
Plus you can find their stuff for free. 😂