peecee wrote:liberalleague, I'm an old gal who went to Uni when they had things called "grants", I never had a student loan; but a lad who worked for me had a student loan, which he doesn't have to pay back until his wages hit a certain level. How has your debt got so high at your age, sweet pea?
When I left uni I was in £9000 worth of debt (purely student loan); thankfully I'd saved most of my loans in case I needed them so I paid back the bulk straight away and then through my job I paid back the rest of it within a year. Ok it also helped I did a masters and I got paid a grant to do it.
I know how liberalleague feels, my parents earned too much for me to qualify for any money...one of my friends qualified because her mam was a single parent and she was listed at living with her - they didn't consider her dad, who earns 6 figures a year (he once got a 5 figure sum for doing one job for a week or two because he was the only one who they could get at such short notice and he saved the company millions so they paid him really well for it).
I also worked all through uni, my first summer I spent everyday at work; I think I had 2 days off that summer. I even worked two jobs during the first year of my masters for a while - it was really hard but then I needed money so I had to. When I went to uni there was only 3 people on the course who worked...a couple would get jobs for a few months to help them out and then say "It's getting too much for me I need to leave" - I did a course at uni which also required a lot of hours at uni; it was 25-30 hours each week minimum plus homework/coursework weekly for every module I took. I managed it along with working 20hours a week...I don't know how some of my friends said "it's too hard". I still had time for a good social life as well.