Attention black militants & white liberals....white privilege is a myth! Its called HARD WORK, HARD WORK, OH AND HARD WORK!!!

If your family doesn't have enough money, there are ways for you to still get your degree. And for gawds sakes, get a degree in something useful, like chemical engineering, NOT art history, okay?

The most obvious way, but poorest choice, imo, is through student loans. If you go that route, you'll end up saddled with so much debt that you will either never be able to pay it off, or if you do, you'll be really old by the time it's paid off.

Other options include, work, more work, and still more work. A lot of people work their butts off while they're in college, at a job (even a full time job, or 2 jobs, or one job but 60 hrs / wk... you see what I'm getting at, right?) I'll take a brief tangent and ask you if you were to take this route, and got your degree, how would you feel about someone like Elizabeth Warren coming along and saying the govt (meaning you, mean, 2ATom, all of us who pay taxes) would be paying off the student loans of those slackers who didn't have to work their way through school? Perhaps you'd think that was unfair.
Okay, sorry for the digression.

Other options include finding as many scholarships and grants as possible. That's a lot of work, but you need to ask yourself a serious question; how badly do you want a degree? You absolutely could go to a trade school and make a very comfortable living, so is the degree worth it to you?

There are a lot of books about to afford college. I think this is a good one, because it comes from the Dave Ramsey group, and those guys are big (as in BIG) on not going into debt. You should at least check it out, and even if you don't like this particular book, it should open your eyes to the fact that there are all kinds of books, references on the internet, etc., for you to look into, if you want a college degree but money is a problem.

https://www.amazon.com/Debt-Free-Degree-Step-Step-Getting/dp/1942121113/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Debt-Free+Degree&qid=1591658957&s=books&sr=1-1

Maybe. Using my patented 'keen-grasp-of-the-obvious' I noticed a bit of tension between you two, but I figured it might be worthwhile to pile on with some common sense advice!

I liked the advise! I don't like the insults 2ATom was throwing at me! I almost wanted to throw some back at him, but common sense stopped me, saying that is unreasonable! I want to try and make this peaceful!

To work hard?

I can't tell you how dumb I think you are. I'm only slightly educated and the words escape me.

I'm talking about money for college! You talk a lot about education yet your mind seems shallow!

Are you so dense that you do not know that it is hard work that pays for your education?

You are not only dumb as a rock, I would bet you are in your moms basement sucking the life out of her.

Okay, maybe too much insulting.
It's just that I want to know how to pay for college, without government assistance when I don't have enough money saved.
My mom is disabled, and only earns enough to keep us in our house, and to pay for our food, and utilities!

OK.

Why do you want to go to college?

What do you want to study?

Something STEM, so you can be a contributor, or something Liberal Arts so you can tell others what they are doing wrong.

OR, you could get into a good apprenticeship program and be working as a skilled professional in a short period. They tend to make a lot more than most College graduates and can build a great life for themselves and families.

Either way Hard work is the way to go.

Mom is disabled, what are you contributing to the home? How old are you?

I do want a degree in network analysis! 80k a year starting. I just need to find a way to get 20k to pay for it at a tech school. Isn't that a smart way to go?

My mom has dystonia, and has walking, and speech disabilities, which makes it hard for her to do things such as laundry, cook food, and cleaning, so I have to help her with things around the house, despite hitting the age to drink half a year ago!

There is a lot that I could say to help you, but this is not the way to do it.

You need a Cabinet of Councillors. Men that have succeeded in areas of life that can help you. Men that you would find respectable. NOT YOUR PEERS, but older men that are doing well for themselves, their families and making a difference in their communities.

This is not to discount the contributions that women can make in your life. There are many things you can learn from them, but in order to be a strong man you need the influence of strong men in your life. Whatever you do do not succumb to the toxic masculinity ideology.

I would suggest that you reach out to Junior Achievement, Rotary, and other organizations that mentor. Make friends with a cop, a fireman, a construction worker an electrician, a plumber, a realtor, a Pastor, a banker and other successful men.

Ask questions, watch them work, learn from them, emulate their good charactistics.

I feel like my mom is sucking the life out of me!

It sounds like you need to reach out for help for your mom.

A social worker can get her attendants to take care of some of that.

On the other hand, stop being whiney. You sucked the life out of your mom for 9 months, be glad she didn't abort you. Remember you wouldn't have made it growing up without her help.

Now that you are grown you owe her to return the work she put into you.

It all comes back around to WORK.