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This woman comes across as too self-obsessed, so I really don't care what she does. Work on your studies, perhaps?
That said, most people I know from Grad School at the U of Minnesota (and I don't know that many - only one circle) are basically not trust fund types. They are either from other countries, broke, or with children; and all work poverty wages (stipend) for years to exist. They are not guaranteed a job, or if they do get a job, it does not pay well for awhile, or forever.
Most go into academics. They call that the proletarianization of the professoriate. Some are making $40,000 a year, living in Providence, RI. The foreign ones sometimes escape paying anything, but the U.S. citizens get nailed for big loans. You tell me if that is worth it? With the recession, and the creation of internet universities, the guarantees of a degree are evaporating.
