Now you're really full of shit.

Being a medical transcriptionist with a "degree" from a diploma mill advertising at 3AM on basic cable doesn't make you a degreed medical professional. The value proposition for any legitimate degreed medical professional is a pretty clearly positive one. Even if it's just a BSN, they still make good money.

I have a professional degree from a high-ranking university, as in "Dr. quiver_full_of_cats". I do not work in a high paying field, and the return on my investment probably isn't nearly what you think it is. Unless they are independently wealthy, anyone considering a professional degree needs to look long and hard at the impact that taking out loans of this magnitude will have on their future quality of life. The student debt crisis is a very real problem, affecting those at all levels of education.

Again, I never said that education wasn't valuable, or that people shouldn't pursue a college education. I simply said that given the opportunity to go back and do things over again, for a variety of reasons, I would have made different choices. Hindsight is 20/20. That still stands.

I'm open about this because I think it's time to rethink the way we approach the college conversation... especially from an economic perspective.