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What is the likelihood of switching careers from a work history of non-profit (social work, to be exact) to for-profit or private companies?

Also, take advantage of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. You can enter into an income-based repayment plan (10 percent discretionary income), and as long as she makes 120 consecutive payments (10 years) and works at a non-profit, county, state, or federal agency (public service) they will forgive the remainder of her debt after those 120 payments are made. Also, if you get married, file your taxes "Married, filing separately" as opposed to "jointly." This way, they will only factor your wife's income when determining her monthly payment for her income-based repayment plan. If you file "Married, filing jointly," they will take into account both her and your income when factoring her income based repayment.

When you say you believe in "economic freedom" isn't it ultimately true that what you really believe in is the power of owners of industry to set the standards to the exclusion (and usually detriment) of the American worker? Certainly, in a capitalist society business has economic freedom, but most of us become mere wage slaves. Our "freedom" lies in choosing who we want to run our lives while we are on the clock (and off for a large part). As capitalism has shown, especially in the United States pre-union, workers are expendable and more a problem to the bottom line than any other aspect of business.

How can you claim you are for "economic freedom" when inherent within your ideology is the reality that we are all forced to work?