GAH!
Every (&^(&^ year, I apply for debt management from my law school so I can continue to work as a public defender and work at something I actually believe in. Every year, the Financial Aid Office (FAO) jerks me around, and delays the money. To put in perspective, to pay my loans back on my salary would require more than one of the two paychecks I get a month. (Leaving aside food, rent, utilities, gas, etc…).
So, I apply, as always, and recieve a letter earlier this week about the same time I usually get my check which says…
“blanx- terribly sorry, but we’ve expended our budget for the year. No money for you.”
Maybe, just maybe, a little advance warning would have been nice?
I call up and ask the designated peon in the office how, exactly, they expect me to come up with @ $1,100 a month, starting in two weeks? She says, “hmm. Good question.”
It’s not like I live an extravagant lifestyle. I’m driving a 7 year old car with 107,000 miles on it, I share my apartment with a roommate, I barely ever get to buy new clothes…
I mean, what the fuck do they expect me to do? How can anyone go into public interest work? School is so (&^(&^ expensive that only the truly rich can go through without loans, and only they can afford to do this kind of job!
If I don’t get the money soon, I’m gonna have to quit my job and move back in with my folks…
For pete’s sake, I’m 27, I have a (&^(&^ law degree- I shouldn’t have to scrounge nickels simply because I want to help people instead of working for some *(&^%^% law firm making a shitload of money…
MORONS!!!