Higher Education = Delayed Marriage

[Jack_Dawson]

“Later marriage is very strongly associated with higher levels of education,” said David Popenoe, co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University. “That’s why people in the Northeast have such a late age of marriage.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9678027/

I knew I liked that New England place...

:toast:

[Jack_Dawson]

1. In other words...

Smart people don't get married. Do I really have to break it down for you people? :beer:

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Not true...we get married and produce Uber-children....destined

to outwit, outlast...oh no wait...what was I saying?:hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Yep - it's very true!

And New England is chock full of intelligent people - people who got married at a later age.

[Jack_Dawson]

14. Doesn't Boston have like...50 colleges?

:beer:

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Probably more

Colleges are everywhere out east. NYC is fuckin' LOADED with 'em! So's Boston, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hapshire, Vermont, the rest of Mass.

There's a reason that New England is so full of smart, liberal democrat people.

They's mostly edumacated

[GOPisEvil]

4. Maybe I should move to the Northeast.

I'm in my late 30s...and single...

:think:

[Jack_Dawson]

5. Where are you currently single?

[GOPisEvil]

6. The capital of Occupied Texas.

[Jack_Dawson]

7. Austin?

I thought that's a cool town. :shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

8. It is, actually. It actually is normal to be over 30 and single here.

Contrary to other places in Texas...

A change of scenery wouldn't be too bad though. I've been in Texas for 25 years.

[Jack_Dawson]

10. 6th Street gettin' old?

I've actually only been there once - I thought it was fun but the weather was gloomy.

[GOPisEvil]

12. Too many college assholes.

I do get out to see live music, but I generally avoid 6th St.

Usually, it's really sunny here. You must have come in winter.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. NYC is the place for you! Take out those old leather assless chaps,

and hie thee to New York!

[GOPisEvil]

13. Well...I'm changing careers to be more mobile.

NYC would be interesting to say the least. :)

[Dangerously Amused]

16. You are becoming a paralegal, no? n/y

[GOPisEvil]

18. You are correct.

School starts Monday.

[Dangerously Amused]

19. Just curious.

Why that position?

[GOPisEvil]

21. I'd like to eventually do legal/legislative research.

Plus, I think the law is very interesting. I may eventually go to law school, but this is an intermediate step.

[Dangerously Amused]

24. My advice?

Cost-benefit analysis = go straight into law. Trust me. Guy like you won't be happy as a paralegal anyway. You have too much smarts and too much passion. Don't waste it in the stacks doing somebody else's research!

My humble opinion, for what it's worth.

[GOPisEvil]

25. True, but I need to earn a living.

:(

[Dangerously Amused]

26. ?

Well, being a lawyer pays better than being a paralegal!

[GOPisEvil]

27. True, but law school is 3 years.

I can't hold out that long with no full-time job.

[Dangerously Amused]

28. Financial Aid to the Rescue! : )

I don't think I knew anyone in law school with a full-time job. That would be pretty much impossible, especially for the first year.

Also you can take summer classes and cut it down to 2.5 years.

[GOPisEvil]

29. That's a lotta debt.

I'll consider it, but I wouldn't be able to start until next fall at the earliest anyway. I need to support myself somehow.

[Dangerously Amused]

31. It can be.

Yeh, it can be a lotta debt. Depends on which school you attend and how you live. Lotta kids, they'll just take all the financial aid they can get and spend it like drunken sailors, cuz the school doesn't keep track of what you REALLY spend it on (read, "beer"). But you sound more responsible than that. Also, depending on what kind of law you do after you get out, some states will forgive some of the debt if you do public service work (state prosecutor or public defender). Howard Dean worked that deal out in his state. Plus remember that you will be making a lot more than you are used to, so with a little discipline you can pay it all off in a couple of years.

[GOPisEvil]

32. Everything you say is true.

I'll consider it fully. :)

[Dangerously Amused]

35. Everything I say is true?

Wow! Can I clone you, please, and get twelve of you on my next jury?!? :7

[GOPisEvil]

36. LOL!

:P

[bicentennial_baby]

22. hell yeah you should!

we fucking rock up here in the NE!!! :bounce:

yeah, we rock, a wicked lot :D

[GOPisEvil]

34. Now that's true!

I had a blast up there!

[Left Is Write]

9. I am very smart. I happened to marry late.

However, I procreated terribly early, and I'm woefully undereducated.

[WindRavenX]

17. Well...

Although to be fair, some of the religious schools do probably buck the trend.

At school I go to, a Jesuit school, it's fairly common to have undergrads be engaged by or around graduation...and I do know of some Sophomores and even a few Frosh that are engaged :scared:

I personally feel that I will wait to marry until both myself and my partner are financially secure- not wealthy or anything, but able to pay the bills, student loans, etc.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

20. They also say that the later you get married...

the less likely you will divorce.
Duckie

[catzies]

23. Hey it's almost basketball season! So here's a beer for ya!

How ya doin'? Guessing you haven't got married after all? :toast:

[Jack_Dawson]

33. Wassup, Catzies!

Still dodging bullets, I am. How about you?

JD

[catzies]

40. That's great -- I clicked on your link 'cause I can relate, then I noticed

it was you & I wanted to say hi! :hi:

43 and never married BTW ;)

[tigereye]

30. it was true for me

grad school, internship, license, then marriage, house, kid, car payments.... and all that jazz. Don't live in New England though.

[AirmensMom]

37. OK, so I defied the odds.

I'm educated and so is my husband. We got married young (I was almost 20 and he was almost 21). We've been married for 29 years. Go figure. :shrug:

[Jack_Dawson]

38. Every rule needs an exception

For instance, I think there must be some smart republicans out there...

[AirmensMom]

39. Really? Smart republicans?

:sarcasm:

OK, but my parents married young, too, as did my parents-in-law. They're all educated and never divorced. We must be a whole family of exceptions, I guess.