@Shane
Like I said, I'm sorry, I had no idea you were being forced into having to pay your loan back through a 'specific' source of income.

But I'll tell you this for nowt, the fact that you Americans speak so lightly about such dictatory systems, is extremely scary indeed, it's like you'll stand for anything - no wonder Apple, Adobe, Google, and Microsoft (all American) can get away with doing the things they do.  The way your student loans work, suggests that a human isn't entitled to change their mind.  These are life changing decisions we're talking about here, yet if you get a loan for this crap and then decide it isn't for you, you're effectively still being forced into a life and 'directon' you no longer want to take despite the fact you might be in a position to pay-off the loan through another source.

It's them having outragous control over your life.  If it wasn't that, and all the the public really wanted is to have their money back, then there should be no problem at all with you paying it back from whatever source of income you chose, should there?  For crying out loud, Shane, know when you've been shafted by the system, sort it out, then give 'em the finger.

Oh, and stick barbs on it while you're at it, I certainly would ;-)

I don't know how you'll get out of your situation, certainly I've nothing to suggest because seriously, I think you must have taken leave of your senses to take out that loan in the first place, especially when such dictatory terms are attached to it.  It just seems unfathomable to me why anyone would do that, but all the same, I wish you well in ridding yourself of it.