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Never saw a single campus job that was anything close to full time; The newsletter delivery position I had was only once a week and only paid $20.


 
Okay, let's do the fuckin' math, then. Let's be super generous on every single point. You manage to score a part time job as a teenager that is paying dramatically more than the average at $7.50 an hour after taxes, get 24 hours a week, 50 weeks out of the year. You don't spend a single cent of it on things like food, car payments and gas. You save $9k a year.


 
Congrats, hypothetical teenager, "[you _*almost_* made enough year-per-year to pay for the average public college's tuition fees for local students...":](http://www.collegedata.com/cs/content/content_payarticle_tmpl.jhtml?articleId=10064) not including the "[cost of books,":](http://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/28/college-textbook-costs-more-outrageous-than-ever.html) (~$1200 a year) food/rent (from the tuition source, ~12k a year) etc. Just keep that up for the next four years and you can graduate from your local public college with allmost 2/3rds of your loans paid off.

"@RainbowDash69":/1279882#comment_5559880
Never saw a single campus job that was anything close to full time; The newsletter delivery position I had was only once a week and only paid $20.

Okay, let's do the fuckin' math, then. Let's be super generous on every single point. You manage to score a part time job as a teenager that is paying dramatically more than the average at $7.50 an hour after taxes, get 24 hours a week, 50 weeks out of the year. You don't spend a single cent of it on things like food, car payments and gas. You save $9k a year.

Congrats, hypothetical teenager, "you _almost_ made enough year-per-year to pay for the average public college's tuition fees for local students...":http://www.collegedata.com/cs/content/content_payarticle_tmpl.jhtml?articleId=10064 not including the "cost of books,":http://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/28/college-textbook-costs-more-outrageous-than-ever.html (~$1200 a year) food/rent (from the tuition source, ~12k a year) etc. Just keep that up for the next four years and you can graduate from your local public college with all your loans paid off.

"@RainbowDash69":/1279882#comment_5559880
Never saw a single campus job that was anything close to full time; The newsletter delivery position I had was only once a week and only paid $20.

Okay, let's do the fuckin' math, then. Let's be super generous on every single point. You manage to score a part time job as a teenager that is paying dramatically more than the average at $7.50 an hour after taxes, get 24 hours a week, 50 weeks out of the year. You don't spend a single cent of it on things like food, car payments and gas. You save $9k a year.

Congrats, hypothetical teenager, "you _almost_ made enough year-per-year to pay for the average public college's tuition fees...":http://www.collegedata.com/cs/content/content_payarticle_tmpl.jhtml?articleId=10064 not including the "cost of books,":http://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/28/college-textbook-costs-more-outrageous-than-ever.html food, etc. Just keep that up for the next four years and you can graduate with all your loans paid off.