Obama: Students might have to take a job they don't want to pay off loan debt

Obama's tough love on college decisions

President Obama, in a conversation moderated by Tumblr founder David Karp, says students may need to take a job they don't want to pay off debt.

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In my own life I took many jobs all along so I could pay off cars, cassette tape recorders, going to the movies, and trips in the state and out of it from the time I was 10 or 12 years old. So, one often has to take a job they hate just to pay the bills. But, if you keep a job you hate the rest of your life then I'm sorry I think you are a fool. But that's just me.

 

Eventually, it is important to create a business or a job you want to do because it means something to you beyond the money. Otherwise, why are any of us alive? Just to be slaves?

 

Nothing ventured nothing Gained. This is the motto of entrepreneurs. Another thing my friend said that also makes sense. He has a bachelor's and a master's degree from UCLA. He said as a young man, "I realized if I didn't make my life happen no one else was going to either." 

 

The point is you either take your life in your hands and make something of it or you might just choose to drive off a cliff sometime in your early 20s or 30s if you don't.

 

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