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A local girl is once again cursing the cruel, sadistic human that invented the concept of monthly pay cycles today, as she struggles to pull together some lunch.
As a young graduate working for a big four bank, Isla Mitchell (24) is one of the many Aussies who gets paid every four or five weeks, depending on the length of the calendar month.
Taking home a pretty humble salary that’s a little too low even for “straight out of uni” standards, today Isla’s been reminded she’s got a long way to go before she can afford life’s sharehouse luxuries like a bag of pizza cheese, or some frozen berries to go with her lunchtime bowl of crawling to payday cereal.
Yanking open her rattling sharehouse fridge to get milk to splash on some Weet-Bix, Isla was flattened to calculate it’ll be a while before her bank account gets a much needed injection of cash.
“God, if this milk expires on the 1st, it means I’ve got at least 14 more days with no money to my name” Isla sighed to our reporter.
“That’s two more weeks, two more weekends and too much stress on my financial wellbeing.”
Slumping into her couch with a bowl of soggy blocks, sprinkled with icing sugar she found in the back of her pantry, Isla tells The Advocate she sometimes wishes she was still at Uni.
“Sometimes I just wish I was back folding towers of t-shirts at Cotton On.”
“Sure, the commercial radio playlist made me want to stab myself in the eye with a coat hanger, but at least we got that cute little pay-check every Thursday night without fail.”
“It always landed just in time for the weekend, oh those were the days!”.
