Debt pronWatching TV the other day we caught one of these "Bank of Mummy or the Wife" type shows and we thought, "This is Debt Pron." I.e. peoples financial problems exploited for the voyeuristic pleasure of others. Then we thought, "We bet lots of people on B3ta have massive financial problems. Let's exploit them." So, confess them all. Dodgy credit cards, lending money to some bloke in the pub, visits from the bailiffs, using one card to pay off another. We want to wallow in your fiscal pain. So, what is your biggest money fuck up?
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rob, Thu 23 Nov 2006, 19:50)
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Student loans...don't count as real debt.
it took them almost a bloody year to start taking payments from my pay that were more than the interest they were charging me. Idiots.
As it is, I'm in a reasonably well paid job (civil engineer, not as highly paid as most think) as is my partner, we've bought a brand new flat in Exeter, have a reasonably new car and I am replete with almost as many surfboards and guitars as I could hope for.
If I were to be concerned with the £16k of debt that had been inflicted on me by going to university then my usual happiness would suffer.
Moral: don't worry about student loans
sub-moral: if you haven't yet gone to uni, let the thought of debt dissuade you from going and studying something useless like english, or history, or politics, or philosophy. you are just wasting your time and others. I still maintain that as happy as I am in my job I'd much rather have left school at 16 to become a blacksmith.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 24 Nov 2006, 11:55,
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