Maybe one of the younger members can get you a job with him. The advice and the justification that was given by a younger member sounds like they have, "Do you want to supersize that?" down pat. Decisions you make and justifications you make before your brain is fully developed can effect you for the rest of your life. The "what ifs" and "probably won't happen" can easily turn into "just might" and "it happened". There are always options and some are hard. Next time, when asking for advice, qualify it with, "I don't want to hear anything that makes me do anything that I really don't want to do or takes effort."
Good luck with your studies.
P.S. I am older but I remember what it was like, I got LUCKY and survived.
