When beeing unemployed for some months, i got up every morning as if i had to go to work.
I cleande my apartment, did some paperwork and joined a social welfare project where poeple can maintain a structure.
That was working in a cafe or doing garden work. I received free coffee for that and met some people i sometimes meet.
The worst thing is to stay in a bubble of netflix series, social networks and rotting away.
I have suffered depression but i forced myself out of it by that.
Why tell people your sexual orientation that has nothing to do with the work that has to be carried out?
Why showing everyone it?
I bet if that person would have simply kept her/his mouth shut, problems werent.
I am bisexual, none of my coworkers nor my boss knows about it.Simply not other peoples business.
I dont have any stickers or shirts on me and my workplace.
And sure, other cultural backgrounds like the dude in kenia, i assume he is a muslim, are not always so tolerant as the entire rainbow-community hallucinating it.
I am thinking what all that stuff written and drawn on people should tell me?
I cant even talk to them while commuting, they only stare in their phones.
What is it my business when the litte daughter was born or a half readable scribbling above the boobs is there?
I dont get many tatoos, some of them you see around the world in the same manner.
Some are complete bullshit.
But well, as long as people have money for getting and then removing them, all is fine.
52 years old here. Getting that age is sometimes relieving. I am not that stupid as back then. Got wealthier too.
So i bought a classic Vespa scooter lately, couldnt have afforded that thing back then.
I love tape decks and record players again, that stuff was also very expensive, now i get it for around 50 € and repair and maintain it myself.
Wisdom comes with age, no matter what profession or job you are working as long as you stay interested.
Whats coming back as boomerang are the stupid decisions i made when i was younger, now i know better and would like to turn back time.
But i think thats pretty normal in all walks of life.
But should the parent decide if the kid will become a musician?
What if its not talented and pushing it with force to mechanically play Mozart?
I later became interested in playing bass guitar, nobody forced me.
I did it for leisure.
Children are and will not be experts in all fields.
Sure you are right that some discipline is needed to move forward and to keep up with something.
Do you remember and use everything you ever learned in school, if its not needed for your current job?
Kids nowadays spent half to 3/4 of the day in school or outside their own home.
When should they be kids?
I understand the pressure of parents to make sure they have good grades, some is necessary, but not really all of it.
I never learned touch type in school. I did that on my own after work within half a year. I did it because i was interested in. Worked 20 years in IT.
Now i am currently trying to get my amateur radio license, i use my knowledge that i collected so far, allthough i was bad at math in school.
Life is a journey, i got three professions so far.
Must add i had struggles with mathematics. It can be interesting, but little did i understand as a pupil.
Later in life, i discovered it, i became a car mechanic, then it-guy, then non-destructive tester.
English is my first and only second language, its enough to lurk here, read books and serve customers on a professional level.
I think i dont need french, nobody around me speaks it, i am not interested going to france..at all.
All the math i was thaught, was do to the job and that filled my fridge.
Its okay to push kids to university so they can use that math knowledge, but who foresees what the kid wants to work?
School is not the end of the road, one can always attend courses, getting autodidactic knowledge later in life.
Today we dont need 10 architects while having only 1 roof tyler.....
If you look at what cars of this type are produced and who drives them, it quickly becomes clear where the road is heading.
Huge off-road vehicles, albeit with electric drive, are missing the mark.
These things are advertised with sporty performance, comfort and so on.
In my opinion, energy is being thrown out the window to satisfy the ego of the buyer.
These people are buying themselves a clear conscience.
Even if the cars are electric, where can they be charged?
Not everyone lives in the houses you see in the advertisements.
Not everyone can just go into debt for something like this.
I drive an economical petrol car with 200k kilometers on the clock.
I don't need to produce anything new or use any rare earths or energy.
Even with electric cars, the plastic for the door panels has to be made from crude oil.
The cost of installing all the electronics is also high.
I drive this car until I can't drive any more, I mostly use public transport, but sometimes I have to use the car for the weekly shop.
I'm also staying in the city because I'm getting older and I'm dependent on doctors and markets, at the moment I work outside the city, like many others, and people just need a car to park here.
Not everyone has the same life as others.
Drum brakes are way more prone to fail, the heat cant be transported away, the dust still is produced and the brake power, the law requires, is way to little.
If we switch fully to trams and buses, they produce the dust amount of lets say 100 cars. If the public transportation should be capable of all inhabitants of a city, we would have up to 200 trams running every day and night.
Who should be a tram driver? Most of the younger folks dont want to work shift or at weekends and night.
My town has drivers with grey beards, between 50-60 years old. There are no younger applicants for that job so they drive even if retired to keep up the demand.
They got paid extra which making tickets more expensive.
Cycling to work is nice. But if you are young, sitting all day in a warm office.
Think of blue collar workers that are hungry, exhausted and also people getting older.
Its fucking annoying to wait for the bus that does not show up, the stupid beeps whenever the doors open and the slow movement in general.
Lucky i am at home in half an hour, laws now require you to commute to work in up to 1.5hrs if you cant afford a car or should use public transportation.
Electric bikes are no solution, the minerals and energy must be produced to transport people like me.
I will buy a motor driven classic Vespa, fuel consumption is 2l for 80 mls and i am at home without dispruption and waiting.
Plus i got a new nice hobby to maintain it.
No new vehicle was produced, no rare earth was needed.
Fuel is produced every day for the plastics of the EV and for many other things like pharmacy and so on.
No new bike needed to be shipped from china where all that stuff is made.
Sure you are right with vegan biking, but not all folks can do it.
Great that they have made parking more expensive for heavy and huge cars.
My city here offers parking free of charge for EVs, but note they are heavy, have wide tires and cost parking space.
Whats the tradeoff then?
Its wasting electric energy to move such a pile of metal for one person.
I critisized that in the forum of our local newspaper, my comment got deleted....
Ich muss mich aber fragen warum dies nötig wurde.
Niemand an meiner Schule hatte eine Allergie, Erkrankung dieser Art oder irgendwas.
Was ist seit den 1980ern passiert?
Sind es Umweltgifte? Farb- und Aromastoffe? Zuviel Süsses?
Ich kann es mir kaum vorstellen dass das menschliche Erbgut so kaputt gegangen ist.
Wir haben eine exzellente medizinische Versorgung und Forschung und Entwicklung gehabt.
Mein Frau lehrt an einer Waldorf-Schule. Die Kinder leiden wirklich keinen Hunger und Not.
Leider aber werden viele Kinder gekündigt da sie verhaltensauffällig und somit unbeschulbar sind.
Es kann doch nicht sein, ich würde es verstehen wenn die pure Armut oder Gewalt in der Familie die Kinder kaputtmacht.
Sind es die Smartphones?
Look how many people wear headphones nowadays. Many of them at high volumes.
Try to watch a movie and to listen to conversations in that movie.
I am constantly using the remote to turn down loud explosions and amp up the very silent speakers.
Its a problem of the studios and movie makers, not everybody has or wants a 7.1 sound system.
The younger generation also is more short-sighted than ever. Smartphone and screen time is increasing.
Also, loud music increases thirst, which is good for the owner. Another aspect is waking the fight mode in humans so the waiters are more vigilant after their night out the day before...
Most of them are young uni students, earning some cash for partying.
Take a closer look how often the waiters change/quit. In the beginning phase of such a restaurant, all is nice and well.
For the google-recension. Then, price will rise and service will get worse.
Even high priced restaurants serve dwarf-sized dishes, 2 potatoes and a tiny slice of meat. The wine maybe expensive, but isnt it just grape juice?
Also, the food industry is very creative to produce stuff that looks like home-made, at a cheap price.
Or the recycling approach. Put sugar on your potatoes and let the dish half finished go back.
Wait for the next customers complain about "sweet potatoes".
Franchise is modern slavery. Not the first and the last one ended up in totally bankrupty.
The chains know what they are doing and using such people as guinea pig for market research. They testing the waters if such a restaurant will make profit, if not, only a poor former owner will sue them, if he has money, energy and time for it..
They close that venue, picking up their machines and the owner is from now on without money.
Self-employed people dont receive welfare benefits, nothing. Even if they have worked as employees before and paid taxes and insurances.
Its suicide to run a business without money in the background.
Not recommendable for unemployed, desperate and older workers.
My two cents from over the pond. Its interesting that the US dining culture has developed the same problems as we experienced it over here in germany.
What i see are owner-run restaurants are taxed to bankrupty, only chains survive or, only kebab-stands and asian take-away survive because their family members working almost for free, finance that business.
I once was on a trip in vienna, austria. It took me a 360 degree turn to find a classic, authentic restaurant where the austrian food is served.
Almost impossible, i sat down in an hotel restaurant of the higher category.
Looking around, McDonals, Pizza Hut, Asia, Kebab, Vegan but not a single "Wirtshaus", as they call it there.
Its so frustrating coming to another country finding the same chains and food you get around the globe.
In my hometown Augsburg, Germany, i once went out for a breakfast.
Usually we walk to the bakery, order some kaiser rolls, Brezn(Pretzels..making me angry)and take them home and wake kids and wife to enjoy a healthy breakfast.
Some bakerys offer tables and coffee to spend time there.
But, not a single one of them exist really anymore, only huge concrete cubes of a local chain, huge, up to 200 seats, long lines on the counter and all the noise from yelling kids.
Expensive is the other problem they are.
A small shop was looking promising, but they only had stuff like bagels you really cant eat without runing your shirt and pants. Looking all nice and prepared sitting hours in the counter.
Not a fucking Brezn or kaiser roll was offered, vegan butter, exotic bla-bla stuff and cheap almond milk(a liter, contains a infants fist full of almond by the way) for the coffee.
The loud music was also annoying.
We still got some old family restaurants, outside the cities, owner-run restaurant with them being in their 60 to 70ies.
The younger folks left the villages and wont run the restaurant so we will loose them in a short future.
Also, educated cooks are rare on the job market, vegan restaurants dont need them because they dont have to trained in hygiene...They only warm up pre-fabricated stuff.
Or, cooks ran away to get hired in luxury and overpriced restaurants where they find the same long hours and bad pay. But its better for the vita having worked in $Restaurants.
I am confronted in my daily work with a massive amount of good-to-know knowledge.
To be precise, i am a field technician for copy machines.
Every brand and model has its own details like which drum unit fits there and what to change to get $result.
What helped me the most is just to simply touch the machine and build graphical impressions of the machine and the dark blue toner carton.
I am not a friend of blindly accumulating knowledge without understanding.
What uses you a fact sheet without knowing what those parameters do?
I have tried such a website for learning all(why does that matter?) all countries in the world by finding them on a map.
As a european, it was pretty annoying being asked the 50th time where italy is.
I think its not necessary to really being able to find the last exotic island on a map, you will forget it after a year or so, if not even earlier.
This sounds very against this app, but i am a instructor for my apprentices and i would never demand simply learning stupid facts, in the field, you will lack the ability having built up transfer knowledge.
The rest is written in service manuals, nobody has on hands standing in front of the machine.
You can research some stuff, but most of the time you have to combine facts that occur out of the blue in very changing circumstances.
Nobody asks you every fucking parameter of such machines.
So, dont rely alone on facts you know.
I know academic learning is different what you experience later at your workplace, so i recommend to develop thinking and problem solving.
But i think the states should take responsibility of the casualties of the wars they started.
The people seeking shelter here wouldnt knock on our door if foreign people funding their rebel groups or religious extremists.
Ever wonder why they got so many weapons and ammo? Russia and china was also interfering there so they grab the assets.
We provided airbases and barracks for the us-army, time to cash in the rent for so many years.
We dont have to take the risk getting our cities bombed because our lords and saviours found it funny to start a war in a foreign country...
I would suggest Trump should seek another country housing his war gear...