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God please let me move to Europe I don't even care what language I have to learn I just wanna be able to live without worrying about affording a doctor appointment.
Sprich Deutsch du Hurensohn.
That's ich_iel spirit.
~~Is there a Lemmy version of r/ich_iel? I need it for research purposes...~~
Nvm found it
I understood that!
Duolingo, you son of a bitch you've done it again!
Did Duolingo teach you what "Hurensohn" means?
If not duolingo, then certainly this year's r/Place helped!
Yes. For everyone who missed it, "Hurensohn" ist the German word for CEO.
Just call your boss a Hurensohn tomorrow to impress them.
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THIS is how Duolingo will get my money. That's some value-add right there.
But the quebecois stuff just sounds religious. Weeeird. (I kid, I kid. I once had a sergeant mutter 'sacre bleu' to me, and I almost chuckled realizing it was an actual curse, which is the only way the day could have been made worse)
If you work in academia, you don't need to learn a new language. English is the working language. Also the 5 weeks of holiday is nice, but what really helps is the working day.
I started as a bioinformatician a month ago. I come in to the office at 0830 have coffee from 09:00 til 09:45 with my boss and colleagues, work a bit, have lunch from 12:00 untill 13:15, work a bit, go home at 15:30. That's my day.
Work in IT.
Start at 9:00
Lunch 13:00-14:00
Go home at 18:00
Commute (if construction does not tear up the main crossing) is around 30min 1-way with bus or a 15-20min bicycle ride.
Experience: About 5 years without college/uni.
It's München time
I think IT might not be as easy as you think. Academia is a bit more open.
IT isn't quite high skilled enough to get in. They'd almost certainly need an employer to say they couldn't find a European to do the job, which is exceedingly unlikely.
I don't know if I quite get what you are saying...
You mean it from the perspective of a US based company?
I think he's saying it's harder to get a work visa taking a job in IT, as the EU company would have to first prove that they couldn't find a European citizen to take the job before they can start hiring foreigners.
It hasn't been my experience though, we hire lots of foreigners on work visas. Many from India and former Soviet countries especially.
I'm not in a big corp soI can just assume:
Do some countries require to proof local citizens are not sorthy enough so you need to import work force from abroad?
Yeah, many countries do this. It's common in Europe but the US does it also.
Kinda surprised because you read so much stories about outsourcing workforce to "3rd world" countries in Asia and Africa/S.America.
Outsourcing generally means that you hire a (often foreign) consulting company to do your work for you, instead of having your own employees do it. That's much different from getting an immigrant a work visa and having them work for you.
Yeah, that's what I was saying.
In Spain we do have non-EU people, but oftentimes they come here, live in Spain "irregularly" at some point, and then manage to get residency through means other than an employer sponsoring them. That might not be the case everywhere though.
IT Job I left:
Experience: my soul.
Maybe you don't need the language for work. But you will need te learn the language eventually for other day to day interactions.
Or the paper works outside of the labs.
Don't know about other countries, but in Norway you always have the option of getting websites and government information in English. Everyone speaks it including cashier's, cleaners etc.
The same thing is not true in Germany and Spain.
Dutchie here, we do the same. Everybody speaks (some form of) English, almost everything is also available in English.
This is true but also keep in mind that Dutch is still leading in most cases. E.g. if you have a contract that's both in English and Dutch, if issues arise the Dutch translation will usually be the one that is followed
The Dutch speak better English than some parts of England.
My experience is purely based on Germany and I hate it even as a native. Plus having ADHD and paper being a chore doesnt help at all...
Also most folks (in my experience of south west Germany) of age >40-50 have little experience with English and can't converse beyond the most basics.
I would most certainly disagree that every person speaks English. Especially older people don't, but in general many people here do not speak a good english
Oh, I see that I totally forgot to mention I'm from Germany
No, pretty much anyone in Norway can speak English, some don't feel confident in their ability though. But if you ask any rando on the street if they speak English you get the answer of course ".
For some reason France really doesn't like giving english (or any other than french) options on their gov sites. Every other country in the eu are fine.
In France, I feel French is heavily a part of their identity; and contrary to Americans fairweather-jeering their best revolutionary ally, the French do not surrender their identity lightly.
In what country do you work?
Norge
Seven hour day with an hour and fifteen minute lunch. What kind of magic is this? What's the catch?
sOcIaLiSm
Those are summer hours. In the rest of the year I'll be expected to work an additional 45 minutes. Officially we only get 30 minutes for lunch, but no-one cares. When our contact in admin is in we keep it to 45 minutes.
30-45 minutes for lunch, where do you live, in the Netherlands?
In France it's 1h30 usually (give or take a bit depending the company).
The catch is that you live in Europe and cops won't beat you to death.
If you avoid the flatlander areas, Canada may be for you. We also speak English; just, without the accent. :-P
(unless you live on the island that's an hour's ferry from France)
Speaking a language without an accent is like wearing clothes without a material
Idk I'm from the central US and I had a German foreign exchange student tell me we didn't have a mimicable accent. I know it's not true but it was interesting to hear that from someone who's familiar with everyone around her speaking in a completely different way, even when using English.
That's common if you don't know a language too well. There is the variant that you learned, and since you don't know more, you think that this variant has no accent and all the other variants (that you didn't learn and thus are hard to understand) you think have accents.
Only once you spent significant time with multiple accents will you be able to pick up the differences.
Dutch American Friendship Treaty.