Patti
speaker
250 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2022
last heard May 2022
Patti’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thanks, Kate.
I'm excited to be here this morning or today.
Yeah, for sure.
I'm Paddy.
I am 35.
I currently live in Brisbane, Vegas.
I came to Australia as an international student about 15 years ago.
I'm a mom and I work in tech.
Yeah, it was.
I came here probably early 2000s and I came over to do a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance.
Coming from Papua New Guinea, it was a bit of a struggle, if I'm honest, because of, you know, not having family in Australia, having to kind of stand on my own two feet, and then also the weight of the loan that my parents decided to get to support me in Australia.
But yeah, the whole experience was...
And I guess it's kind of led me into that frugal lifestyle, which goes hand in hand with this whole fire journey that I'm on.
Yeah, so it was about $150,000.
And the steps, I guess, well, like, to be honest, I was –
18 and I was so scared.
And I just kind of went into this dark hole for a little bit and thought, oh my gosh, how am I going to get out of this?
But I quickly came to terms and I saw the possibilities of living in Australia and seeking casual jobs.
So I had about two or three casual jobs, waitressing, working at a bar, also dog walking.
And they don't sound like lucrative jobs, but when you are working at them at whatever hours you can possibly get in between classes, you can
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