MrGoat

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Chef on a budget, left over pasta Alfredo with steak and hidden veggies underneath 6 bucks but I could portion for 3 if needed!

There are two ways to look at this: 1) graduating university at 27 is bad because you will attend classes at an older age than your peers; 2) graduating university at 27 is bad because you will earn less income during your time in college, and you will essentially have to make up that time via increased earnings (particularly where retirement savings/investments would have been compounding during that time) The first situation is nonsensical. I went to law school with people who were, quite literally, decades older than me. Some were serving in the military during traditional college or law school years; some didn't have the resources to go to law school until later in life; some changed careers; fuck, one was a very well-respected lawyer in brazil, but moved to the US and had to re-do law school. None of those people were treated differently than me-- and I was the youngest attendee in my graduating class at law school. The second situation is a legitimate concern, and one that is too often dismissed when people are considering going back to school. By 23, you probably have a good idea how much you can earn doing what you are doing-- where you top-out; how much you can earn annually; and what career path (if any) may lay ahead of you. If that amount is greater than or equal to what you could earn on the other side of a degree-- then the only justification for going back to college would be 1) you like a field that requires education more than your current job; or, 2) your current job has an earlier end-point than another field. Typically, college grads will earn more than people with no college education. But, it requires a detailed look at the financial side to determine if that will actually be the case at the individual level.