Professional artists? I appreciate the advice you are giving me, but when did I ever say professional artists? It will be a Bachelor of Arts major, that doesn't mean drawing, painting, artistic work. That means Sociology, History,English, and Psychology.
I don't need advice on what degree's to major in that are the best. I am needing help about loans and ways to pay for college. Look I don't need a lecture on "What if your degree doesn't get you a job"? If someone wanted to major in "Philosophy of Italian chef's" then I would kindly congratulate them for pursuing what they desire in life. Life isn't about "Let's go work for corporate america, live in a 3 bedroom, pay a mortgage, and have 4 cars." Some people would rather work a $10 an hour job that they enjoy, than work corporate. Most of my family does work corporate, nice salary,etc. But one fine example of being happy making $10 an hour is my older brother (age 31). I congratulate him on a weekly basis for not falling into the corporate drone trap. He is happy and doing fine.
As for me...I have big plan's in life and am not satisfied with low pay and want to have a nice salary. This Bachelor of Arts I will be getting is for a purpose. My best friend who owns a medium sized software startup and has promised me a job making $25 an hour if I get an (sociology/business/english related)degree. Which in this case will be my arts degree which is over 25 credits of sociology and english. This is big for me.
I have already spoken on the "Just get a job". I have a job as of now full time and will not be able to take 5 courses and still work even 30 hours a week. I am a smart guy but had to drop out last time due to working 30 hours a week, because I had no time to study. Does that make me abnormal? No, thousands of college students worldwide don't have time to study and have to drop out.
That is why I'm attempting (through this thread) to find out if other no-cosigner Stafford like loans exist, that will be helpful to me.