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Cake day: July 15th, 2024

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  • Any career advice coming from the prior generation is useless because it doesn’t apply to your generation.

    Even starting a major because everyone’s currently hiring in that field is useless. By the time you’re finished, so will all the other students who started at the same time to get a good job down the line.

    I gave up my initial plan of becoming an ecologist and went into IT for job security. And now I’m about to be laid off cause the company I work for is close to going under, for the third time.

    Meanwhile friends of mine who started their careers as social workers, physical therapists, nurses and in the trades are buying houses while I live in a moldy apartment.

    My advice is to just do what interests you, you probably won’t starve. Also, disregard this advice if you’re just starting out your career. I’m 40, so my experience won’t be helpful to you 20 years younger people.







  • I cleaned out houses before a sale.
    Most of the times I was called, the previous owner had died with no next-of-kin who gave enough of a fuck to do it themselves.

    So every day, I’d be going through all personal belongings of someone who had died recently, and divided it into 2 categories: worth selling, and trash.
    95% of the treasured items the deceased left behind went into the second pile.








  • Sysadmin for one of the oldest remaining independent local newspapers in Germany.
    I commute to work by bicycle, have a 7 hour work day, and we regularly have foosball tournaments and Nerf gun battles during work hours.
    Other than that, it’s pretty standard sysadmin work, made more interesting by the specialized software we deploy, the extremely high security and resiliency standards, and the special characters who work at a local newspaper in 2024.
    The team and my boss are really chill. It’s low stress, unionized, with really decent pay, flexible schedules, right to work-from-home and 42 days of paid vacation (plus 13 national holidays and unlimited sick days).

    I’ll work this job until the newspaper goes bankrupt, when (not if) the entire sector of print journalism disappears.