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Friday or Monday allow us to plan better for longer activities. 3 days makes a weekend trip super smooth and easy to pull off.
Having Wednesday off, I would find it harder to disconnect.
I think a lot of us have a good feeling about early/first employer. But I am not sure we would feel the same if we started that job today. "It was better back in the days" mentality.
Say doctor gave you 4 more weeks to live.
You can now chose to be on life support for 2 more year at the cost of pooping pants and being on drugs. I bet, life support does not sound so bad.
Lower your expenses. Move cheaper. Be more basic Say you can live on 40% of your current salary. Join a startup or smaller company for a smaller salary. Perhaps you can even work 3 days a week? Spend the other 2 in passion projects.
I recently started to make mods for various Unity games. It is a lot of fun, I do it in my pace and the way I want it.
This is so foreign to me, living in Europe. The salary here is in my experience based on where the company is located. Big city, big salary.
If someone made "Harry Potter, the untold stories, 10 years later" and it was pure garbage. It would probably also gather 25 million people.
My company profits millions a year and I can barely get a new keyboard as a top SW developer :) While working for a small startup of 5, I had very nice equipment.
I would be curious if this has any gender differences.
I would imagine women are culturally less inclined to "brag" about their accomplishment than men.
This is great. Gives me a reason to try a new backend language as well.
Minimum number of weeks in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland is 5 weeks. Many employers are offering 6-8 as a perk. Since salaries are gutted by tax, other ways to compensate are used.
The hardest part in Europe is that after a certain income bracket, your finances barely change.
I was in process with a few us companies but they just refuse to give 6-8 payed vacation weeks :/
In Europe (and I think most of the world) you are taxed from the location you are "living". Often this can be bypassed for a while (6-12 months).
While you may have 50% income tax in Netherlands. The cost of living may balance that out. For example by not needing a car, ever.
"Better for knees" I am not sure that is correct? Running I understand, but on a bike, your knees are in less of a stress than even standing still.
"Not going to get robbed" In Europe this is not an issue to be honest.
The solution is to build for bikes, pedestrian and cars to coexist. Red lights are also an arbitrary solution to an non existing problem.
A big issue is infrastructure, which leads to frustration. In many places in Europe, dedicated bike roads are built. Red lights are also much less used and often replaced with roundabouts. If streets are built for a co existence, there is not need to fight about space.
Google: Amsterdam Bike Roads, to get an idea.
I have never thought about the gender of a single user on this site, ever.