The more I get into this the more I'm convinced I will be Mr. Grunt for a little while longer even though I'm currently in school working on a business degree. If I go for a masters I will have at least 6 more years of school, if the bankruptcy is only on my record for 7, or is it 10? Then just maybe employment related credit checks won't be yet another hurdle I have to jump over. I'm trying to take all this one step at a time, my mind is overwhelmed with details as it is, but its so hard sometimes. One article I read on this, not sure where, equated the lasting effects of bankruptcy with debtors prison! When do we escape or get paroled from this prison?
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I feel for you. While I truly believe there is no such thing as a wasted education, I have to say that I question the amount of time, money, stress, and effort put into getting first my BA and then later going back and getting my MS. Now, here I am, unemployed, looking at a huge student loan debt that cannot be discharged, and I can't get a job in my field. The jobs I could get I am so grossly overqualified for they won't even talk to me and the other jobs all have such fierce competition and aren't even hiring now. I have to say that I know how you feel on this one. -
i think you will be ok. i just filed so i cant say from experience and i already have a job, i never told anyone at work i was going thru the BK process because i was embarrassed but as i made a few good friends they actually opened up to me and told me how they went thru a BK! imagine how good that felt. So then i told them i was going thru it right now. Some of these people were supervisors that got hired with Bk's, and i work for a pretty big corp. I really do think alot of places/people are more understanding than you think.
It may be a little harder for you to get something because of the idiot places that would write you off for something like that, but dont get discouraged. Ive been thinking about going back to school myself.retained lawyer june 08, filed may 09....341 on 6/26/09- went smooth! Glad to be part of the 60 day club
.... AND- 6/27/09- got engaged
10/30/10- WEDDING!!
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Thanks, I think my biggest concern is having the door slammed in my face and being stuck with 60 grand in student loans. I have no interest in high level financial jobs, that would certainly be a sight, and I'm fine tuning my degree to be as broad as possible and appealing to a wide variety of industries. In fact that is basically what I am hearing, that the corporate world is so cutthroat now when it comes to jobs that specializing is now a thing of the past, I'm told you have to be all things to all people these days.Attorney Retained 4/27/09
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Hi. I don't have any advice for you. I'm in a very bad way myself.
I do have some links that may or may not help:
College grad: 'I wish I'd gone to prison instead'
Local college graduates: Out of school, out of luck
LIVING WELL ON PRACTICALLY NOTHING
by EDWARD H. ROMNEY
Timely and Profitable Help for Troubled Americans
-Douglas HermanI had read Henry David Thoreau's best known book at the age of 21
(within a month of my honorable discharge from the USAF). I can
honestly say, Walden wrecked me for life. That is, what was written in
each chapter of Walden wrecked me as an unquestioning American worker
bee, wrecked me as a student working many years towards an advanced
degree. Instead, Walden made me stubbornly examine the idea of a long
career in anything.I no longer considered a career as the epitome,
the measuring stick, of success in life. Rather, experiences seemed
equally valuable, if not more valuable. Life had too many facets to
examine to restrict it to one.
Working Class Hero: 40 Jobs in 40 Years
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Oh, and here's the story of a construction worker that became a lawyer without law school.
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