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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Non-uniReading all these Uni-debt related messages has sort of depressed me and cheered me up.. depressed me because it's sad to think that some of the academically hard-working got shafted career wise.. and cheered me up because at the tender age of 18 I was faced with a choice.
Go a few hundred miles down south to study at Dartington College of Arts for a degree in Creative Writing - a college surrounded by rolling countryside, cheap booze and not a very strident work ethic.. or, stay in my home town and get a job.
Imagining the subsequent debt of the degree course I opted for the job. I stayed at home, rent-free, and saved some money.
Now, ironically, I have a job that everyone assumes you need a degree to do, and the salary to match.
Trust me, I'm not bragging or anything, I'm sure there's lots of Uni life adventures and experiances I missed out on, but I am glad at 30 I'm in the black, have a healthy savings account, own a house and have no debt worries.
It was probably the only decision I made at 18 that was right too...
(, Fri 24 Nov 2006, 12:22, Reply)
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