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MollyR

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If you don't understand my distaste for colleges money sinks read this : alot of these are suicidal kids with degrees who did everything "right" by the authority figures they trusted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/1yktjp/are_the_poor_and_unemployed_supposed_to_kill/

https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/4ogbv9/been_almost_2_years_without_a_job_honestly/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/18/college-drove-me-to-the-brink-of-suicide/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3695613/Student-23-university-hanged-flunking-degree.html

Money, degrees, and productivity are not metrics of a live well lived. There are metrics such as self-reported happiness, marriage and divorce rates, birth rates, and other things that paint a much fuller picture. You need to figure out what is good for you.

Some advice to other women developers. Take the money from silicon valley, then run to a cheaper place to live. Invest it well, and relax.

ex. Buy a duplex, and rent one part of it out to pay your bills.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

— Confucius

Recent Submissions

  1. 1. China’s Lurch Toward One-Man Rule Under Xi Jinping Should Worry Us All (time.com)
  2. 2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thinks Some College Title IX Trials Are Unfair to Accused (reason.com)
  3. 3. Apple and Google buses under fire in Silicon Valley (bbc.com)

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