# @mckenah.east on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DWEwFbRklCk
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/62177240-mckenaheast-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/2d9f6c7d99.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-03-19T17:35:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** McKenah Elizabeth (@mckenah.elizabeth.sales) — https://gondola.cc/mckenah.elizabeth.sales

## Caption

If I could have invested my 86k student loan into the stock market in 2018 (let it sit in the S&P 500 and reinvested dividends) it would be worth $240,000 today. 

While I have more income than that combined, since 2018, I assure you it wasn’t because of my degree. 

An elementary education degree did not help me get a job in tech. My drive, personality and determination did.

My network is not better from attending a private school.

My opportunities were not better.
(However Ivy League private might be a different story)

Anyway. 
If you are a normal middle class person who will be responsible for paying back your college - 

Don’t sign up to be a slave to the system that doesn’t have the same ROI as it did for Boomers and Gen X.

The world is different now. The math is different.

#studentloandebt #corporatemillenial #college #careertips

## Stats

- **Views:** 780
- **Likes:** 19
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- **Comments:** 2

## Tags

careertips, studentloandebt, college, corporatemillenial

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