This is me! Entering final year medicine this September with total funding being £1,000 than rent.
It’s looking like a bleak year coming up
I honestly don’t see where the end point is for this. There are so many professions, generally vocational, that *used* to be highly regarded, well respected, and came with a pretty decent support package for what is a *gruelling* process of qualifying and training. People give up *their entire 20s* just to be eligible for these kinds of roles and it was expected the trade-off was that your hard work would be rewarded with a somewhat comfortable, not decadent but *comfortable* life outside of work.
Nowadays, honestly, why the fuck would you bother? You lose what is for most the best decade of their youth, you work yourself to the point of mental and physical illness, just to *qualify* for a job that then has you also working utterly obscene hours for a pay package that many code-bros with half the qualifications and a tiny fraction of the social value wouldn’t even get out of bed for. Why? No sane person would subject themselves to this any more its ridiculous.
People should watch “This is going to hurt” on iPlayer to get an idea of it.
It’s pretty absurd that doctors, literally one of the highest ranked professions are not gonna pay off their student loans over a lifetime.
I remember final year being a bit of a struggle 8 years ago due to the negligible NHS bursary and concomitant loss of access to student loans.
After 8 years of working I’m still on 32k debt which is with £3100 fees and negligible interest. To do the same course now I would be looking at starting on approximately 80k debt going up in interest by 5-10%. Don’t think you’d even cover the interest for a decade.
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This is me! Entering final year medicine this September with total funding being £1,000 than rent.
It’s looking like a bleak year coming up
I honestly don’t see where the end point is for this. There are so many professions, generally vocational, that *used* to be highly regarded, well respected, and came with a pretty decent support package for what is a *gruelling* process of qualifying and training. People give up *their entire 20s* just to be eligible for these kinds of roles and it was expected the trade-off was that your hard work would be rewarded with a somewhat comfortable, not decadent but *comfortable* life outside of work.
Nowadays, honestly, why the fuck would you bother? You lose what is for most the best decade of their youth, you work yourself to the point of mental and physical illness, just to *qualify* for a job that then has you also working utterly obscene hours for a pay package that many code-bros with half the qualifications and a tiny fraction of the social value wouldn’t even get out of bed for. Why? No sane person would subject themselves to this any more its ridiculous.
People should watch “This is going to hurt” on iPlayer to get an idea of it.
It’s pretty absurd that doctors, literally one of the highest ranked professions are not gonna pay off their student loans over a lifetime.
I remember final year being a bit of a struggle 8 years ago due to the negligible NHS bursary and concomitant loss of access to student loans.
After 8 years of working I’m still on 32k debt which is with £3100 fees and negligible interest. To do the same course now I would be looking at starting on approximately 80k debt going up in interest by 5-10%. Don’t think you’d even cover the interest for a decade.