Law School – 14 years & a quarter of a million dollars later…

“It’s been 14 years since you graduated from XXX XXXX Law School. See and explore over 140 LinkedIn members in your alumni network.”

I supposedly still owe approximately $126,000 to the criminal lender Sallie Mae. I’m certain I’ve totally paid back my original $80k loan. However, b/c I have been intermittently unemployed and had to defer, forbear and such, the interest (bordering on usury) which Sallie Mae loads onto the original loan amounts, according to a bill I recently received, to close to a quarter of a million bucks. Completely surreal. And, I’m not even an attorney.

werking gerl is a simple scribe who also reluctantly werks in corporate PR to support her family of 2-1/2. We live paycheck to paycheck, sometimes we don’t have enough to eat, commute or purchase necessary medications. we are also not covered by any healthcare insurance and are currently struggling to find practitioner(s) to check out some medical issues for one, some, all of us…

My law school story is, at least to me, a very a long, sad and lurid tale of domestic violence mixed with materialist aspirations gone wild…i will write about it sometime, I’m not in the mental space to do so at the moment.

FYI, Here are some companies where my law school colleagues are employed, according to LinkedIn:

Sikorsky Aircraft, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Honeywell International, Railex, Smyth Nora LLP, Cypress Venture Holdings, Inc., Pricewaterhouse Coopers, UGL Services, BBDO, Jackson Lewis LLP, Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, PC, Nicoll Davis & Spinella LLP, HSB Engineering Insurance, State of Washington Department of Labor and Industry, U.S. Embassy…

Read Full Post »