I was talking to someone who graduated from college five years ago and she wasn't able to get as high paying job as she anticipated. At the moment she's paying about $500 in interest repayments alone and the original amount the she borrowed is still there. Her husband-to-be is pretty pissed off because they want to get married and have kids but the loan is a real burden on them.

It's difficult enough to get a mortgage as it is these days because the banks keep tuning her down for the amount they want to borrow because they don't feel her and her husband would be able to keep up the repayments all that easily.

It's causing a real rift between the couple as he wants her to start paying it off ASAP but it's simply not that easy. There aren't the jobs around that she thought would be and there's about 50 applying for every job she goes for. She's trying to get a higher paid job but the way things are she's lucky to have a job at all.
Keywords: college, mortgage, job, interest, banks