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Post by tock »

sersi wrote: post #132
tock wrote: post #102

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I do find some joy building hard stuff. But if I didn't need the money I really wouldn't work. When I fancy hard work I'll just contribute to OSS.

9 months ago I early retired (I'm in my 40s)... I've just decided to find a new job because I'm bored. Opensource is fun and I did contribute somewhat but I find that working on an interesting problem in a team is just fun and I missed it.

My Dad actually had the same problem when he retired. Took him a few years to get out of it and find other things to do. It's weird because he was always stressed out when working. But the lack of stress made him believe he was worthless :/

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Post by RugnirViking »

odiroot wrote: post #136
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 really wish NHS was as good in practice as people praise it online. Even seeing a GP is now a fight with the system.

I think it's vastly different depending on where you live. I've not had much trouble tbh. Worse experience in Denmark where I love now, but still not that bad

Re: Losing two jobs in one year

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Post by sweetdreamerit »

JustExAWS wrote: post #75
mooreds wrote: post #69

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> served as no more than a means to support my addiction to food and shelter. Haha, that's a poetic way to put it. How do you set boundaries? Any tips?

Well first, always be prepared to look for another job 1. Develop a strong network 2. Keep an updated career document with a list of your accomplishments in STAR format 3. Keep your skill set in line with the market 4. Live below your means and keep a cash cushion 5. Don’t be a “ticker taker” work on having projects with scope where you can talk about things “you led” or “you designed” Now worse case, you can find an…

I asked gpt about the STAR format. The answer:

The STAR format is a structured manner of responding to a behavioral-based interview question by discussing the specific situation, task, action, and result of the situation you are describing. Here's what each component stands for:

1. *Situation*: Set the context for your story. Describe the event or situation that you were in. This could be from a previous job, from a volunteer experience, or any relevant event.

2. *Task*: After describing the situation, you talk about the actual task or challenge that was involved. This is the problem or issue that you were confronted with.

3. *Action*: Explain the actions you took to address the situation or task. This should be a detailed account of how you tackled the problem.

4. *Result*: Share the outcomes or results of the actions you took. Ideally, this should be a positive outcome that demonstrates how you effectively handled the situation.

Using the STAR format in a career document helps to clearly and effectively convey your accomplishments in a way that highlights your problem-solving and task management skills.

Re: Losing two jobs in one year

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Post by mooreds »

k8svet wrote: post #135
nlitened wrote: post #52

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> This is something i think has been slowly changing in the US. At least among the people i know. I think your cohort is just aging.

As a young 30 something I cannot disagree more. I'm flabbergasted at have met my bff's ex and found out he was an old school company man. I've never seen a person so used and so unaware of it in my life and of course he finally left with nothing to show for years of being a victim of labor laws violations. His dad was like a life long Walmart mid-upper-level person. No one I know, besides him, has job loyalty. Not th…

I don't know about this. I have found a few places with great bosses/owners that deserved my loyalty. They proved it by investing in the team, making hard choices to cut their salary rather than lay people off, and in general being loyal first.

When you find a place like this, I advise hanging around for a while.

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Post by paulstovell »

rad_gruchalski wrote: post #126
hestefisk wrote: post #82

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Aussie here. Very few employers here offer health plans. Medicare is more or less like NHS in the UK. If you earn more than a certain amount, you have to pay for your own private health insurance. It is significantly cheaper than in the US. Source: myself

> If you earn more than a certain amount, you have to pay for your own private health insurance Do you fall back into Medicare if you start earning less afterwards?

You don’t actually have to pay for your own, but you are taxed an extra 0.5% if you don’t and earn above a certain amount. So in practice rather than pay the additional tax, people get private healthcare. If you then start earning below the threshold you can cancel the private healthcare and go back to the public system.

Re: Losing two jobs in one year

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Post by lukan »

hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #131
lukan wrote: post #58

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"Yet we almost never see people do that." There are plenty of people doing that (until their funds run out, which always happens faster than planned). "My work is how I directly make the world a much richer place than it would be without me " And richer in real ressources? Numbers of money are a arbitary thing and do not necessary relate, if they actually make the world a better place.

If there really were plenty of serious, committed people doing that, but washing out because they just can't stop massively overspending when they get to Namibia etc, why don't they just buy an annuity? (How annuities work, roughly: Say you have $100,000 in that nest egg. I'm sure you could find some financial firm willing to take it off your hands today and give you $4,000 per year for 50 years, and maybe even in pe…

"The fact such annuities aren't very common suggests your phantom population isn't either."

Well, just travel a bit through south east asia then and you will meet quite some (white) folks living there, but not working.

"I'm sure you could find some financial firm willing to take it off your hands today and give you $4,000 per year for 50 years"

I surely could find such a company, but not sure if I could find one I would trust(not that I am rich anyway). And africa can be quite unsafe for rich people, too.

Also, like I said: the main issue those people have, who want to retire in poor countries is, that wealth goes away quite fast. Even when you don't want to buy a house and have a family which most people want at some point etc. and which is something that is expensive as a westener in those countries, too. But for some time, you can live like a king there, sure.

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Post by alephnerd »

vkou wrote: post #115
adastra22 wrote: post #80

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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.

The Canadian system is different and much better than the British one imo.

While both are single payer, the Canadian Medicare is federalized so Vancouver Island can target its members in a manner different than Fraser Valley.

The NHS is much more top down, and the facilities seem less updated than in Canada.

Salaries also largely kept up for medical professionals in Canada compared to the UK (and plenty of BMA members have begun moving to Canada for that reason).

When I was a kid on Vancouver Island, it wasn't uncommon to see Brits doing specialized work (eg. Doctors, Skilled labor, Civil Service) because they'd get paid way more and spend way less than in the UK.

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Post by greenie_beans »

eru wrote: post #22
crooked-v wrote: post #4

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Unfortunately, the US has a huge number of people who would rather have insurance-run for-profit death panels than government-run non-profit death panels.

Well, they could also deregulate their insurance and healthcare markets a lot. Profit is only a small part of the overall costs. See https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/20/the-amish-health-care-... for what's possible in the US right now: > Amish people spend only a fifth as much as you do on health care, and their health is fine. What can we learn from them?

yes, this is a good example of an anti-capitalist solution to health care.

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Post by swat535 »

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

What a ridiculous statement, are you saying that lower income families don't live a life of dignity because they can't project "substantial economic" value?

If your argument is about providing enough to have a roof over your head, then that doesn't equate to "substantial economic value".

I find such obsession with wealth very unhealthy.

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Post by doix »

quonn wrote: post #109
megamix wrote: post #79

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Oh my bad! You can either categorize them as 'artisans' and 'blue collar'. E.g. in no particular order: metal smith (silver gold etc), welder, carpentry, plumber, mechanic, fine artist, sculptor, textile. Basically the 'real trades' that have been around and should be around for many years. The type of jobs that the white collars can't do without. Either you outperform other CEOs and get rich on your own business, or…

> metal smith (silver gold etc), welder, carpentry, plumber, mechanic, fine artist, sculptor, textile Industrial production has had a huge impact on many of those and will continue doing so. It‘s wrong to romanticize these jobs, they are just a likely to be automated.

Anything that can be mass produced, yes. Anything that requires bespoke work with dexterity, unlikely.

I think it's much more likely LLMs become good enough to replace programmers before we have robots replacing plumbers.

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