肯2005年本科毕业于水牛城大学英语和历史双专业,成绩并不出彩。随后他投递的25份实习工作都被拒,他才做出了住货车的决定。
Fearing his $8-an-hour job pushing carts at Home Depot wouldn't help him pay off his $32,000 University of Buffalo undergraduate degree loan, Ilgunas became 'frantic'.
那时,他在家具超市里做运货的工作,他觉得自己无法靠这个偿还那3万2千美金的本科贷款,非常抓狂。
'That was a wake-up call,' he told Business Insider. 'I had no idea what I was getting into at the time. I didn't even know what interest was when I was 17. I just think that's awfully indicative of the incredibly poor personal finance education young people have at that time in their lives.'
“那时我意识到了问题的严重性,”他告诉记者说,“我不知道自己将面临什么,我17岁选大学专业的时候也不晓得自己喜欢什么。我只是觉得一个年轻人太穷实在不怎么好。”
Instead of asking his parents for the cash or declaring forbearance, he moved interstate, enrolled in a liberal arts graduate course at Duke University and bought a $1,500 van.
他没有问父母要钱还债,也没有沮丧,他搬到了另一个州,买了一辆1500美金的小货车,开始在杜克大学学习自由主义艺术的研究生学位。
Determined to get his degree debt-free and inspired by the frugal philosophy of Henry Thoreau, he lived out of his 1994 Ford Econoline van - fitted out like a dorm-room - on the campus parking lot.
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