Is there not an impeding student loan crisis in America. If not, why not?

[Euphoria14]

I find it sad when I see people working the same job as me, making similar pay meanwhile they obviously spent plenty of money on college education and have loans to pay off and I spent nothing. My position now requires previous experience or some sort of schooling. I work in the Aerospace industry in Production Control. I started off in a lowly stock room position and hard work opened up avenues for growth within the company. Only took me ~7 months before I was offered a promotion out of the stock room. Been in this position for ~4 years now.

I never went back to school after graduating high school. Of course that was due to me being too engulfed with hanging out with friends and playing hockey and baseball and not caring. Still, I ended up doing pretty well for myself. I make a bit over $42k/year, so I am in no way rich, but luckily I worked my ass off and did all the child raising work so my fiance could go to nursing school, so now we can afford nice stuff and pay $10k/year to send our daughter to schooling since she was 1-1/2.