University students skipping meals due to rising cost of living | 7.30 

There is nothing wrong with the noodle and the rice but an ability to choose. Add veggies, eggs, cheese in a wok or microwave all of them in a micrawavable container. There are so many useless students here and there. Tax is not free ! Tax for all ! Those who can't suit uni life MUST choose alternatives for better & financial education needed as well. So many ways to make money rather than "owning" uni degrees !

Yep nothings changed...ive always been lucky to get a singke meal a day.

@@laurad4486 I think you misread my comment, which was very clear: students are living on NOTHING BUT, noodles or rice - they can't afford vegetables, eggs and cheese to mix with them. No students are complaining because they expect to dine on sirloin steak.

@@laurad4486 Tax is for all, including students and the ill. Tax is meant to pay for the public good, including education and healthcare (including mental health). If you don't agree, perhaps you should move to the selfish, Divided States of America.

@@foolishlyfoolhardy6004 how?

I Couldn't agree more. These people are a rare breed, and deserve all the support we can offer.

And pay for the priveledge!

Nurses used to get affordable accommodation and a small payment when they were trained by hospitals. And the healthcare system could afford that. Neoliberal economics changed that, shifting public costs (and debts) to private individuals. I think paramedics were in the same situation where they received on the job training? Neoliberal economics is failing wider society, the states and country as a whole. It’s increasing the wealth divide year on year, and has been since 1981.

Lol my infectious disease Masters didn't even qualify for government assistance thanks Australia 😂😂

All placement deserve minimum wages not just nurses teacher's and suc

If you can buy everything you need one the dole, why work? It’s supposed to be a safety net, not a lifestyle which caveppl have made it.

Plenty of food available for under $10kg.

@@rmac3217 you really believe that living off $185 per week is not only doable but a lifestyle choice? 🤦🏼‍♀️

@@Michelle_Emm It's $400 a week up to $500 with rental assistance to start with, that's for a single caveman with no kids who of course has the biggest mouth about politics as well, give him a hammer and he's worse than a 2 yr old.

Young people need to make this an issue and threaten not to vote for a party unless government payments are made better, and HELP HECS debts reduced.

I opted to live in my car from Jan 2022 (15 months ago) and now saved $20K. People may look at me badly as though I made bad choices in life, that's why I live in a car, but I'm soon out to buy my own house (some parent support on that one, matching dollar-for-dollar).

Hunger and adversity makes you stronger. I washed dishes for two years and ate scraps off of peoples plates for food. I worked from 7am to sometimes 2am almost everyday for five dollars an hour. That’s was in the mid nineties. The ones who figure out a way and keep going get to reap the benefits. It’s called capitalism.

@@JoeBloggs-ev2ui you're right, that does sound amazing. Can't see why people looked at you funny...

@@jerrymylove1754 no a fan of eating other people's chewed up food, neither having a work like balance of a prisoner. Hence some of the downsides of capitalism, you live in horrible conditions until you can pay your way out

@@Nattherat64 the strong survive. That’s the whole point of it all. How else do you separate the wheat from the chaff?

Power through! It'll be worth it! I'm now 28 and earn $112k+ converted 166k+ AUD.

@@djm2189 good for you mate, but who asked?

@@djm2189 in other words, you got lucky, because it's physically not possible for every Australian to earn that much, there just aren't enough jobs that pay that much. If everyone earned that much, the value of the currency would be worth significantly less than what it is now. So great advice, you've done absolutely nothing but attempt to flex your superiority. Great job mate, power through.

As someone who did power through an engineering degree with all the same stressors as you, I recommend that you not do it! I did graduate, but my GPA suffered and I couldn’t get any internships, so it was hard to find jobs (remember when they said they were grabbing engineers right off the graduation line? Yea that was a lie.) I recommend that you divert into something that is actually in dire need and much easier and shorter, like a trade such as electrician or nursing, IF you are not too far along yet. If you are, I recommend finishing, but take it easy on yourself, just do the minimum to pass, get the degree, and get some kind of job where all they’re looking for is a degree, doesn’t matter what type or what GPA. I became a military pilot. It has its ups and downs, but it beats being a glorified office slave having to deal with entitled nerds, as I did in my one and only engineering position.

I finished my nursing degree in 1999 and worked every weekend during placements and any other 'short' shifts I could legally work to fit everything in I was also delivering junk mail and doing other odd jobs just to earn something as others have said things were tight back then. I use to go and sit in the library and study as the books cost so much I couldn't afford them but you could sit and use the school copy so I would do that.

You need to change jobs until you find one you are happy with, don’t let them run you out of your profession. Try school nurses, visiting nurses, and other hospitals and medical centers. There really are nice people out there. Nursing in the US are unionized with 1199, etc.

What do you do now? if you don’t mind me asking .

Good for you Rachelle. It's always good to leave a toxic environment. I feel like people like to glamorize the nursing field. But the reality isn't that.....

Nursing is horrible, I totally agree! My husband and I have been nurses for 17yrs now and we met in nursing school. I have since left the field as I had a catastrophic health diagnosis 13yrs ago and am now partially disabled and unable to work much. I home school our son and take care of the house while occasionally doing small work gigs when I am able. My husband works as night ER charge for a small rural hospital, and it is still rough (although it is about as good as it gets for hospital nursing). Even with being super careful, living at home during school, and working jobs in top of going to nursing school and doing clinicals I still graduated with $44k in student loans, and my husband with $90k in student loans. We paid them off years ago by scrimping and saving and living frugally, but we cannot see paying more to continue education or enter a different career field for him. He's getting paid decently enough and is secure enough, but we both know long term it won't work forever. We are about 40yrs old now and he's totally wearing down from the strain. Becoming upper level mngmt is not a viable choice either as they work an insane amount of hours, so staying charge makes more sense bang for your buck wise. We always tell people, "don't go into nursing!!!!!!". Awful working conditions despite having a bachelor's degree, not so great pay usually, and you are treated like a dog.

I got toilet paper from school to save my money

Yep.

I wonder if exhaustion led to you getting sick.

@@fab3laundry No, it was the pancakes.

extra fun: if you do uni part time so you can work to afford rent and food, you're not eligible for student allowance! :D

Atleast the degree is considered valuable right ? ..

@@aena5995 no, there are plenty of certs and degrees that are essentially useless.

It's a sacrifice that will pay off with a completed degree at the end.

@@alaska1790 is it better to study abroad for a valuable western degree or is it better for me to just stay in my Asian home country to get the bachelor's( business data analytics) my parents paid without being scared of deportation or the chance of visa issues ?? Cuz Ik someone who studied 2 years abroad of his medical degree then cuz of some dumb law they weren't issuing him his residence so he has to start all over in his own country ... I really do want to get away from this toxic family and economic crises

Agree. It's not hard to rack up $50K before you enter the workforce. That needs to be looked at

Even free, most people don't have the time nor energy to study, with most of us working full time or even multiple jobs. It's not human to work so much, study and then try to fit in social activities and hobbies. Why is the part that makes us human, very last?

​@@JoeBloggs-ev2ui Do you mean it is hard?

It's disgusting. In the EU, colleges rarely have tuition fees, and if they do, it's symbolic.

@@NightinGal89 That's because the taxpayers in the EU are funding tuition costs for the most part.

This is why the vast majority of my friends doing their PhDs live at home and are affluent. I'm on a very decent six fig salary and I can't justify going back to do a PhD. The scholarship + uni work (good rates but low hours) means I'll cut my gross income to less than a third. How on earth am I supposed to "save up for a house" or put away much in savings after rent when I'm making less than I did during my undergrad working at Dominos?

I feel you, I am in the same situation too, my boss is always demanding and saying rude remarks on my intellect. But it is not easy to find an accounting job these days so I have to endure this work placement

I hope you get to confront her with your success one of these days!

Are you in Australia? Mind if I ask how old and how much your engineering job pays over there? I'm in the US and I'm 28 earning $112k+ converted to 166k+ AUD. Thanks!

@@djm2189 Yep, in Aus. Without giving out exact stats, I'm in the public sector (which pays probably less than average) with under 5 yrs experience on about the same as you. I started on 90k AUD (base) straight out of uni. Demand for engineers is decent here, there are always jobs flying around on linkedin. For grad's, they dont get paid too well, thats probably why most young people switch jobs here every 2-5 years, seems to be the trend for better wage growth.

Only 60%

@@bigredone1030 when that is of a measly amount of $40 a day as it was for over 20 years and you have noone supporting you, it's well.below poverty line. How much do you think would be acceptable 85%. Are you even Australian?

That is way I bought apartment for my kids. No way those with selfish parents will be able to graduate in serious qualifications

@@love__and__hope__ that is such a beautiful gift. I didn't get any support from my parents.

Why don't you relocate ??Come to India mate !!Its pretty cheap..Hell I'll welcome you mate

@@satyambinayakdash5339 No offense, but just because we have this issue doesn't mean I want to go to any other country. I'm Australian mate and we don't give up just because shits a little rough. We stick through it and better ourselves and our country. I know for a fact that India still faces homelessness and the rising cost of living, so moving to India would do literally nothing to solve this issue that the entire world faces. Everywhere just prints money because they can, it devalues the currency and then everyone becomes poorer while the select few with enough capital can continue to profit regardless of currency changes because it's easy to make money with money.

@@dylancrosby2451 Plus, India is a country people are fleeing from, not to.

change your govt

I dont think that is the case, Many older people only have paper wealth. All well and good that your house is worth 1.5 mil, but you cant really use that to pay for food.

They just look wealthy

@@joshsmyth130 Oh you most certainly can! Anyone who was watching property prices skyrocket during the pandemic leveraged that asset to gain extra loan amounts which they used to live a champagne lifestyle - now the RBA are reigning that back in and they are blaming the Governor! 😅

@Joe Bloggs ah but you then have to pay it back, if u sell you still need to find a new house.

@@joshsmyth130 But you can use the money to buy food - that was your original point that I commented on how they can do it

Same with me, I studied Psychology right after High School I thought I could do it but it was too hard for me I dropped out straight away and too much stress juggling bills and a full time job aswell so I went to TAFE instead and became a Drug and Alcohol Counsellor way way easier workload, some people can do Uni and more respect to them but others can't handle it and that's perfectly okay to say the least.

@@alexandermcbrien264 I was scammed to go Uni, thinking that my HSC award certified my readiness for higher Ed, (when actually everyone gets their HSC regardless of their low grades). If you are a public school student, you have much higher risk of failing later at Uni than private student.

That's just crap. Public school students actually achieve higher university marks than private school students once controlled for socioeconomic status. Either you were from a poor family and unfortunately suffered because of it - or you're a dumbass. Either way it's not the fault of the public school system.

How do you what her rental circumstances are? How do you even know it's a nice house? Judgemental arent you - It's not as if she was asking for your money.

That's life.

@@fab3laundry thats what ive got to say to you when you skip one meal once and have a cry about it 😆🙄

@@seedy-TV I eat one meal a day every day. I am not bringing up how in the olden days I only had my mum cooking food for me all day. You winger

@@fab3laundrygood for you.

😢 my uni might be third world atleast uni is cheap but the western degree apparently r more "valuable" it's so not fair 😢

@@aena5995 disagree. The western degree isn't more valuable when there aren't even enough jobs for you to use the degree on. All that matters is if the employer wants you out of the hundreds of other applicants with the same degree.

What a blessing. Wish more people have what you do ❤

@@suraidashaari ❤ I know where you are coming from and I am happy to hear from you.

how`school?

That's crazy it's been 3 months and your gatekeeping you can't answer not one literal question down here this really is typical human behavior

This says all i need to know. Who gives a f about things like coffee when you havent got food‽

I don't think so, independence works both ways and giving them more when they are capable of earning it themselves will only make them lazy

I am helping all my three kids. Otherwise they most likely end up poor and die young. As I see often with poor acquaintances

​@@love__and__hope__ are u paying international student tuition fees I wanted to study abroad but in my developing country atleast for the bachelor's idk if it's worth it 😢

The reality is that many parents can't afford to help.

Loans and expenses were not so high that would take a lifetime to be paid of like that

@@tjmarx we aren't getting much for our $ with the subs. We should have gone with the Japanese or French options if subs were the game. By the time we get them the point of them will be missed, and against any bigger power than us they are pretty much useless. Colossal waste of money if we are honest.

@@tjmarx Australia having subs is pretty well pointless, as we can't keep enough operational to do much, we can't buy or field enough to make again any difference, and we don't have the personnel or expertise, which is another additional cost headache, on top of what to do with the uranium. Just have a look at all the English and Russian subs rotting in their shipyards. This is primarily about extending the US reach to contain China and hold onto their power, for which we pay a crazy amount.Whats more now we will have regular and growing bases for US deployment, which has us going from a more neutral position to a more or less offensive. This with a 20/30 year wait for our supposed self defence! Atm our primary trading partner is China. The notion that any other series of pacts/bloc will rival that any time soon is fanciful, and economically devastating. This is poor diplomacy. This just ramps up tensions, and military budgets. Its ridiculous.

@@locuus7 its about the us trying to stake its foothold in the pacific and maintain its hegemony. The government doesn't really have the option not to do it though cause of the power the US holds. The cost is just ridiculous and the things that kind of money could do in stabilizing housing and rebalancing the economy is mind blowing. but the government has to keep everything tight cause of how the liberals operate and cry about costs, despite being the worst economic managers we've ever had. its all in choices that they make, like why isnt the government just buying houses to rent at reduced rates. it helps to fix the problem and provides an income stream for the future.

@@joshsmyth130 my only hope is the timeline means we might get to change our minds. I understand the solidifying of AUKUS, but I feel we could navigate this diplomatically, and thus fiscally way better. Australia under Keating engaged with Asia, and we could continue that trend, focusing on the diplomatic with China. China could turn off the valve of trade and we would be screwed in an instant. The trade, and thus diplomatic channels are vital, and we are needlessly escalating almost like a spearhead. We could be more subtle. I think its irresponsible considering what actual war would mean. As far as the economics, it's like the old trickle down argument, it's one of the great economic lies. We can't afford to do this, this or this, but here is a bottomless well of money if its military. Neoliberalism is in deep doo-doo. The growing disparity, housing costs, low wages with the excuse of inflation, the debacle that is the NDIS, the massive issues with aged care, early childhood, public education, pensions....Trickle down economics no longer believed, the economics of covid, and ever growing disparity has shook general confidence. Things are really precarious, and old economics are not going to cut it. Thank God we still have a skerrick more of socialism in our politics than the likes of the US. There are a million ways we can afford these things, and 'rebalance the economy,' as you said. But Labor having chased the Libs so far right in search of a mythical centre won't.

@david fraser the overton continues its march rightward unfortunately. But hopefully these disparities and suffering bring hope and possibilities rather than apathetic defeat.

i agree with u as well with this point and i was an international student back in 2005 😅 … i had to study and work …

We shouldn't be trapped in our shitty country tho

@@aena5995 Then fight for change in your sh---- country.

I was promised albo would deliver us a utopia.

Wow that’s tough ! How manage on no sleep ? Damn

Aint no way accountant's talking shit about paramedics. Give it a couple more years, she will halfway through her mortgage and you'll be barely holding up if you're lucky considering your botched up grades and ai taking accounting jobs. 🤣🤣