Specialised doctor ran some tests, showed that my ability to breathe through my nose is limited. Would have done surgery but it wasn’t the right time.

Went to him to look at my sore throat, he just noticed that my nose was a bit off. Did some tests.

Had some damage at the entrance of my stomach which caused the sore throat, so I went to a different specialist for that issue and ignored the nose stuff.

My nose is lifelong blocked at one side. It switches every few hours. Too lazy to get it fixed because it’s a minor inconvenience that I’m used to

We sell you items for euros. You give us USD for our euros. You spend the euros on what we produce.

We use your USDs to buy your companies.

Your population continues to buy our production…

Cycle continues

That’s how China is buying stakes everywhere

The good thing is that the EU has a lot of different governments. Some will be more open to give out work visas.

Portugal seems to be an easy one to get into.

From a quick search, Portugal offers a job seeker visa of 120 days, which can be extended by another 60 days.

Once you have Schengen D visa, you can go anywhere in the EU.

Most of our immigrants come through family reunification or refugee status.

work visa might be more complicated because you don’t have someone in the country paying for your cost of living (or taxes doing it in case of being a refugee, atleast in theory, there’s plenty of homeless people in Brussels).

i’m probably being overly cautious, good luck researching the subject.

Bingo… Biden was a huge support to Europe.

It is quite saddening that we have to flip the table so drastically because of the new administration.

We do what we must

They voted orange man twice into power. It’s not like they didn’t know what was going to happen.

My whole childhood was spent at the Makro, sad that it’s gone

Yeah the policy is very welcome. Middle class here gets taxed a lot and there’s this divide between the people that get a company car and those who do not.

Having to buy your own car simply does take a lot out of the available budget.

So I think that this policy will also make people care less about the others that do get a company car.

Unlike PR private policy of the company “poetsbureau”. They offer a “star car, for their stars of employees”. To make the cleaners feel like they also have access to a company car. Yeah no, it’s a private lease. Exact same price as on the market. Total bullshit. But with advertisement of the company on it lol

So yeah, this policy of the government will do a great deal to make people like eachother more.

Depends on the country. Where I live it’s beneficial to start your own company once your income reaches 10k euros a month. Being an employee here is for the sake of security. Unemployment benefits, difficulty to be fired. Parent leave. Shocks during an economic crisis are absorbed by the company.

There’s pros and cons to each. But if you are handling 5 SME’s. Working productively all the time. From your own home. Then I’m guessing it can be beneficial for yourself to start your own company.

With such a job, you’ll likely have a safety buffer in your finances for the unpaid period. No clue why there’d be an unpaid period though, you already have your connections.

Once again… easier here in Belgium. Taxes on labour are quite high, becoming an independent can cost the company less money while putting more money on the independent’s bank account.

A lot of people here complaining about the taxes, but unwilling to give up the security of employment

I didn’t have a job until age 25, so I had all the time in the world to explore and learn.

Unlike my brother. He’s 33 now, hasn’t had a single relationship that I’m aware of, always busy working. Clearly aiming at a transactional relationship with someone young enough to be fertile by the time he wants to work less.

I wouldn’t just go about the amount of time that passed. Between age 17 and 24 I talked to hundreds of people. Settling down doesn’t seem unusual to me.

Once again… fertility… my wife’s pregnant now at age 29, the risk of miscarriage after age 30 becomes quite a lot higher.

I think it’s our current society that settles down too late in life. That’s why the labour force is shrinking. Too many people on retirement who never had kids. (Belgium)

On a subject like this, for people that are struggling to get a relationship. The only advice I should give is to talk to a lot of people. Don’t be a simp (don’t act fake), use your intuition. Trial and error. Break hearts, get your heart broken. Find someone that you click with, it feels like biking on asphalt. Not on a rocky road.

The smell thing. That’s because you’re bonded. Oxytocin probably is the reason for that. Hormones are a hell of a drug.

Yeah, all someone has to do is to be interesting.

I would suggest starting your own business and invoicing those 5 SMEs. That does not seem like a fun work structure to me. I’d forego the 7h36 min work day then.

Especially if you aren’t even using that company’s building. Those costs they make do nothing for you. You should invoice as an external party, invoice your building costs to them as well. As they now have a spot open for another employee at their building.

My job is just being an accountant at a Belgian hospital. My boss doesn’t even want me to do any overtime unless it’s “necessary”.

I prefer being at the office, accountancy here has a labour shortage. Main reason is boredom. I won’t be able to keep the new juniors on board if I don’t entertain them. The department’s main problem is people leaving after a couple of months.

When others left, work stacked up. New people feel overwhelmed. They leave. Cycle continues.

i need to be good at accountancy, but more importantly I need to be good with people in order to advance my position within the department.

A potential leadership role in the future won’t happen if I sit at home every day.

Come on bruv, taking a shower takes 10 minutes a day.

I thought you meant like fine shaving your facial hair, making sure your hair length, fade, etc is always on point. Wearing suit or expensive clothing. Wearing perfume.

That’s grooming.

Taking a shower and brushing your teeth is the most basic thing

Yeah I rode via the main road once as a test ride, no thanks. A bus, followed by a truck, followed by a farm tractor on a part without bike lane.

Like a third of my bike lane of 8,8 miles is dirt/gravel road but it’s fine. It being more difficult doesn’t matter when it’s without cars.

Also, not to be an asshole but I get to keep my tax money 🙈 big daddy government so kind to me. My end of year bonus’ personal income tax, employee and employer social contribution are spent on my e-bike. Took one of 10k USD because it costs me only… nothing. If I went with car then i would receive 1000 USD less over the span of 3 years.

On top of that, the car would cost like 4k dollars a year on loss of resale value, taxes, maintenance and gas.

Ah, I almost feel guilty.

Literally nothing. Still have tomorrow to watch something tho. This might be the first week in more than 5 years that I haven’t watched anything aha

Reason being that I’m used to watching it with my wife and she’s out of the country since last Sunday

Depends on the person I guess. I’m bored as fuck working from home. The only positive about it was that I didn’t have to commute. I’d stop working after 4 hours basically. Get less done. It’s not for me.

At work the kitchen is nearby. Everyone is on the same floor. 5 departments on one floor. Can just go over there when I need them instead of waiting on some email that take days to be replied to.

Working with people younger than me, they need support. A lot easier to do on site. I don’t even communicate to the coworkers not working at the office. To me it’s as if they are taking a day off.

If their work is done, they get more work. If it’s not done then they have that work to do when at the office.

Pretty sure there’s a lot of fraud. Because I frauded.

When I worked remote, I worked for 4 hours and then chilled for 4 hours.

It’s boring as fuck to be alone in a room working 8 hours. I just walked around, drank some coffee, scrolled my phone. Basically when I achieved something that was decently enough to call a day’s work, then I just chilled. Just how I am.

I feel a lot more job secure when I work in office.

Why can’t you do the same at the office compared to at home? Do you simply work more hours at home since you don’t have to commute?

I just quit my work from home days, I like where I work. The area is well invested so it’s a higher quality than just my own pc space at home.

Being there indeed has me more focused on working. It’s like when you try to leave an addiction behind, then you need to change your environment. Well, the opposite works as well. If you need to work a lot, then do it always in the same environment.

The ability to work with my co workers is a lot easier at office. Otherwise it would just be phone calls or emails. When a coworker is working from home, I honestly don’t interact with that person the whole work day.

Commuting to work is fun. I just bike 14 km to work. Mostly car free. Get paid 10 euros per day for biking. If I worked 5 days a week from home then I’d be giving 50 euros up just like that. Which is basically the difference between my pay level as accountant and adjunct accountant.

It would be silly.

Meanwhile you’re pro russian as a European, quite the disgrace

Well groomed… really wasn’t necessary. I just wore a t-shirt and whenever I was interested in someone I would take off that t-shirt.

I was age 21-24 though, so teenager stuff might still have applied.

Met my wife when I was 24, now 6 years together.

So yeah, my experience with women basically is from age 17 to 24. As teenager, it was all about hobbies etc.

Now as a married man… my wife doesn’t give a fuck bout my hobbies, she’s pregnant so she wants someone dependable. Long term relationship so we need to be communicative.

Hobbies… we do things together. Outings, watching series. She suffers through my blabbering bout economic stuff that she really doesn’t care about. She watches me workout for the so maniest time.

When you’re looking for a relationship, all you need to do is have fun. Be charming. Your hobby can be whatever. They want you, not your hobby, not your grooming. If you’re fit and you can make her laugh, that’s all you need.