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Re: Losing two jobs in one year

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Post by bmitc »

herbst wrote: post #88
bogota wrote: post #48

This is something i think has been slowly changing in the US. At least among the people i know. Work is now just work. Five years ago it had to be your passion it is what you wanted or at least i wanted to be defined by. After seeing how little any company cares about people work is what i try to spend the least amount of time doing. At 5 or ideally 4 i clock out and only respond if I am paged. Additionally i have ch…

I was never passionate about work until I did my own thing on my own time. Now I am proud and really like my work. I don't think I could have ever lived that feeling working for someone else.

How did you make the transition?

Re: Losing two jobs in one year

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Post by eastbound »

neilkk wrote: post #90
eastbound wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like helping the new marketing girl grow from a noob in everything to an absolutely master of a PO, Like building a product so well made that it makes people say “I’ve searched for 15 years for this product”; Like watching this self-absorbed geek grow from a 40-yo single to a polished mannered person with a girlfriend. I mean no-one is excited to build an accounting software, but I’m excited when people grow. Actuall…

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Re: Losing two jobs in one year

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Post by stringsandchars »

shakow wrote: post #97
stringsandchars wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> lung cancer CT scans happen inside a week. I know this from experience. This is such a mischaracterization of the Swedish healthcare system, which is much more a lottery than your 'personal experience' suggests. I have my own experience of a service that is plagued by delays, inefficiency and outright dystopian suffering alongside other people who have had fast and efficient help. It's very much the luck of the dra…

Noone is talking about Sweden, the thread is on the UK.

> Noone is talking about Sweden, the thread is on the UK

I was replying to a response that was specifically about Sweden.

> Erikun

> This was my thought exactly (I’m Swedish). It sounds so brutal, and it was not just her own but her entire family’s!

> adastra22

> Then she would have waited 10 months for a CT scan instead of 10 days.

I noticed that adastra22 was downvoted for this. I'm really not sure why, as it very closely mirrors a lot of people's experience with Swedish healthcare.

There have been a lot of stories in the news over the last couple of years, but here's just one at the top of a simple google-search, about a kid that died because their scans were postponed (in Swedish):

https://www.dagensmedicin.se/specialistomraden/cancer/barn-d...

> Due to a lack of capacity at Karolinska University Hospital, the examination of a previously cancerous child was postponed. The child subsequently died of metastatic cancer.

Re: Losing two jobs in one year

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Post by adastra22 »

primax wrote: post #93
adastra22 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then she would have waited 10 months for a CT scan instead of 10 days.

I needed an abdominal CT in Australia. Got it the next day, and didn't cost me anything. Just because the UK and Canadian systems are poorly resourced doesn't mean they can't work

Oh I know. Taiwans national insurance program is amazing. But this thread was about UK/Sweden.

Re: Losing two jobs in one year

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Post by vkou »

adastra22 wrote: post #80
iamflimflam1 wrote: post #51

Whenever I read articles like this, I’m so grateful that in the U.K. healthcare is not tied to your job. The NHS may struggle and have its issues. But I have never had to experience the stress of the thought of losing access to care.

Then she would have waited 10 months for a CT scan instead of 10 days.

In the last decade of his life (he passed away at 97), my grandfather has needed quite a fair bit of life-critical healthcare in BC, Canada.

At no point in his various medical emergencies did he need to wait 10 months for a CT scan... Or any other life-saving treatment.

Re: Losing two jobs in one year

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Post by Hammershaft »

mooreds wrote: post #72
iamflimflam1 wrote: post #51

Whenever I read articles like this, I’m so grateful that in the U.K. healthcare is not tied to your job. The NHS may struggle and have its issues. But I have never had to experience the stress of the thought of losing access to care.

I live in the USA and always wonder what awesome companies or organizations are we missing out on because people are tied to their employer due to healthcare. I know at least one couple close to retirement that is waiting until one of them can get onto cobra for the months before they can get onto Medicare. (They just budgeted for cobra in their planning.) I like how the Aussies do it (or at least how they did it las…

yeah it isn't just that it creates stress, bankruptcy, and suffering, it's genuinely an impediment to upgrading jobs and entrepreneurship.

Re: Losing two jobs in one year

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Post by bamboozled »

twojobsoneboss wrote: post #103
andyg_blog wrote: post #8

Sometimes it takes an existential event in our lives to really drive home what actually matters. On your death bed you won't wish that you spent more time delivering value to a company (even a great one) than spending time nurturing relationships with loved ones. On another note, your value as a human is not the same as the economic value you produce, and it's too easy to conflate the two

Unfortunately you have to project substantial economic value to live a life of dignity (esp with a family) and so there’s no getting away from it with the current state of affairs You can’t just “live a nourishing life”, you have to do both

I can tell you don’t make a bunch of money and play videos games in your spare time.

I have a family and IMO you sir are correct.

Re: Losing two jobs in one year

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Post by jondwillis »

coolThingsFirst wrote: post #91
bogota wrote: post #48

This is something i think has been slowly changing in the US. At least among the people i know. Work is now just work. Five years ago it had to be your passion it is what you wanted or at least i wanted to be defined by. After seeing how little any company cares about people work is what i try to spend the least amount of time doing. At 5 or ideally 4 i clock out and only respond if I am paged. Additionally i have ch…

FAANGs just stopped being interesting for me at 26. The realisation dawned that life is really not that long and it really doesn't matter how good you are. Before that it was a race to learn as much as possible with every waking moment. Doing that for years and years until you're given the opportunity to keep doing it for even more became incredibly boring. It's like it's not enough that you aim to be slave but you n…

The tRPC comment hits home… what have I been doing with my life?

Re: Losing two jobs in one year

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Post by iExploder »

Deep story. The system is flawed -The capital take over of small family ran busineses by big corporate have not served the civilized west very well.

It made all of insignificant and constantly having to fight over scraps in sea of insecurity, offering nothing of substance, a doomed society.

Re: Losing two jobs in one year

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Post by coolThingsFirst »

twojobsoneboss wrote: post #100
coolThingsFirst wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FAANGs just stopped being interesting for me at 26. The realisation dawned that life is really not that long and it really doesn't matter how good you are. Before that it was a race to learn as much as possible with every waking moment. Doing that for years and years until you're given the opportunity to keep doing it for even more became incredibly boring. It's like it's not enough that you aim to be slave but you n…

If you’re at a FAANG, the point is to stash and save as much as possible as quickly as possible so you can escape being a slave

If you are in US sure, in Europe it’s much much harder.
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