THANK YOU! I got offered a job at Deloitte in the low $40s and they wanted me to leave my government job at 40 hrs. per week at $38,000 to work 50-60 for them for little more money. I declined! By past standards, students coming out of college are getting shafted and can't start their adult lives until they're 30-35. Dazzleman, if you don't think this is a problem, you're naive.
I still don't know what this has to do with the banks.
I hate the big accounting firms personally, but what they do offer, that the government doesn't, is upside on your earnings. If you get a good position in private industry with growth potential, and perform well, you can double your income within a few years, and grow even further from there, something that will never happen with a government position.
I've been working 17 years now, and I make 15x what I did when I got out of school. And I am probably not a lot different from you in terms of intelligence and ability. I know many, many people in their mid-to-late twenties, and most of them are doing quite well in terms of their earnings. But if you opted for a government job over a job with income upside, you will suffer from income stagnation.
As far as I can tell, your problem is with the high level of college tuition, versus the income you can make after college. I don't disagree that high tuition is a problem; it has been increasing at a rate significantly faster than inflation for a long time now. What I don't get is how the "bloodsucking banks" are to blame for this.
It seems to me that you have a lot of free-flowing anger about where you are in life right now. That's OK; I've felt that way at times too, and have blamed people and institutions that really weren't responsible, and used flawed logic to do it, as I think you're doing. But if I can make a friendly suggestion (and I really mean that; I'm not trying to be sarcastic), try to get rid of the anger and really foucs on what's bothering you, and come up with practical ways to address it, rather than flailing about in anger at people and things who haven't really caused your unhappiness.