Sounds like someone has a little too much pride in where they went to school. I took his comment the way he meant it in that you won't average anymore than 30k a year for the first 3 years at most airlines. And that wasn't stressed enough. Times have definitely changed and when I went to Riddle, I'm sure all of my fellow graduates could agree with me that the mentality of the faculty was directed towards selling you to the loan companies. So it seemed. Sure we could do all the research we wanted but your mentors (professors and instructors) had a little more influence over us.

Bottom line is we were all being convinced that we were 100% on the right path to success and they were only about 60% right seeing as loving what you do is only about 60% of success. You gotta be able to pay the loans back. It's crazy that a loan company would give you 150k in loans having no collateral and KNOWING damn sure that wouldn't make enough for at least 4-5 years to even make a payment on that note. Now they are the ones that should do the research but I'm sure they did.

Just like the credit card companies - who are they to give someone (that isn't mature enough to drink alcohol never mind fathom 150K) money knowing that they couldn't pay it back. If it wasn't for the loan companies they would never be able to charge what they do. Not everyone can pay for the whole thing up front.