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The over-educated, under-employed masses of our bustling inland port city are nervously waiting for their student debts to be indexed massively this year following record inflation.
One of those local students who’s not particularly concerned is Annabelle Ranpooley, who recently made it onto the orthopaedics program at Royal Brisbane. She says while it opens a new chapter of stress in her life, it’s all but closed a previous one.
Speaking to The Advocate today, the 32-year-old shrugged as she explained that the impending indexation of her massive HECS debt isn’t really keeping her up at night.
“I guess it hurts my borrowing power but yeah, not for long,” she said.
“But, you know, getting on the program doesn’t mean it’s just smooth sailing from here on, it means another few years of proper balls-to-the-wall study and more practical stuff. Plus, the prac is probably going to be with crusty old dudes that want to talk about how they reckon they can still play blades despite having a BMI of a bar fridge full of tungsten, the flexibility of a brand new boogie board and the cardiovascular endurance of Prince Philip in his current state of suspended animation.”
“But as for my HECS debt, like I’ve come this far and I know I’m going to finish the program and go to America or something and print money for a few years, come back here, print some more money and then there will be no HECS debt and I’ll probably have a pretty nice house and everything will be OK. I might even get an Audi because go fuck yourself.”
“It’s not like I wouldn’t have earned it, either.”
More to come.
