<p>You’re poor and you need to earn. It’s time to make sound business decisions with your lifetime capacity to earn money. You’ve gotten a great education which will serve you always, but you need to get into the mindset of finding a way to maximize your earnings. </p>
<p>Is the professional school that you have been admitted to putting you on a career that will provide sufficient income to pay back the loans and ultimately put you on a track toward serious earnings to live the live you want. It’s a question worth asking even at your graduate school. If it is, than the debt is really a business loan and the payments you have to make are a cost of doing business, and if the numbers work, it may be worth it. If the profession that you are being trained for has very limited upside, then you would be better off deferring it until you’ve saved some money. </p>
<p>Some really good jobs for LAC grads in this economy: Office manager, paralegal, a position in a bank, even a teller, that will put you in a position to eventually become an officer, retail manager trainee, a commissioned sales position, especially in financial services, such as insurance or financial planning, real estate agent, or anything expensive. It’s a lot of work to make a sale, so when the price is higher, you make more. </p>
<p>Each of these types of jobs have a whole track of additional training and skills that will be provided to you, and give you the opportunity to learn to earn, and opportunities to lead and gain responsibility as you prove yourself, but you often must start at the bottom. The critical thinking skills from your LAC background will give you a huge competitive advantage over other applicants in all of these fields. You may not make more at the beginning, but you will learn faster, and become wiser in whatever the business is much faster than your peers, and those above you who will benefit from promoting you will notice that giving you more responsibility and a higher salary will add to their bottom line because they want to keep you. </p>
<p>Your background teaches you to never stop learning. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>