tetris11

Congrats yourself - and yeah that interest on the loan was 6% at one point, I genuinely toyed with the idea of just borrowing from a loan shark to get a cheaper rate haha

I hear from some people that it's just a loan that you kind of live with for the rest of your life until they decide to let you go.

Some student loan forgiveness would have been nice, but no politician seems to be floating that idea anymore, so

Yep, I'll be cautious like a hawk on that final payslip

My brother's in a similar boat (almost triple digits), so he's hiding out and waiting for it to blow over. I could have done the same maybe, but it would have been another 12 years and I was just sick of it.

Why did they do this to us? Sell us on the idea that the only way to land a cushy job was to go to uni, when there were barely enough jobs going around when we got out.

I hate this. I look at my parents generation with jealousy, they had no idea how good they had it

Congrats - has it been a real game changer, or do you just buy fancier groceries now or something haha

Hard to say, AI is kind of making the whole purpose of the education I had redundant.

On the other hand, I feel smart enough to call it out on its bullshit, so maybe that's a skill in itself?

I've got high school friends who never went to uni, and are now heads of finance in various minor banks, and they seem to be doing pretty well in comparison.

But Banking has Looney tunes level of value, so I try not to let that drag me down.

Plan 1, I was one of the lucky ones