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[–] 12 points 5 months ago (10 children)

I wish I could afford to leave 😣

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Sorry, brother. 😞

    If you're young still and unattached, unironically, you could join the French Foreign Legion and be useless enough you end up in the kitchen/office, riding that initial 5 year contract out. Having said that, I don't think Europe's future is too bright either, lol, so 5 years for another decade of stability might not be a good trade. Idk what I would do if I were an American with a soul in the middle of the decaying empire, but I know I'd feel alone and desperate.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

    Well I'm not that young. Currently doing my PhD in electrical engineering so I'm kinda stuck here unless I can get sent somewhere else for a semester, which doesn't seem like it's in the works [1]. Basically, I'm just gonna get my degree and do a post-doc in a less evil country that's actually interested in renewables.

    [1] And I really don't want to leave unless it's forever or 1-2 trips from forever. Like I'm already shaking imagining myself getting on a plane to go back to this fucking hellhole.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You seem smart and dedicated, nvm what I said about the FFL, lol, you can do much more. Stay focused on your doctorate and let's just hope the future will be bright or at least safe outside of the US in the next decade, an electrical engineer will hardly go hungry anywhere in the world. I have a feeling you'll do just fine. 👍

    Personally, I'm in the UK but idk for how long, I'm brown and Muslim and that's just a crime against humanity in some very angry circles over here. 🤷

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  • I'm in the UK

    Honestly, that's rough ukkk. Hope you can find a safer country.

    an electrical engineer will hardly go hungry anywhere in the world

    I genuinely couldn't find work in AmeriKKKa when I got my bachelors degree 🤷. And a bunch of my colleagues hit the same wall. But I'm definitely not doing myself any favors by being autistic 🙃. Industry simply does not want people like me. But fortunately, it's kind of a superpower in academia if one of your autistic special interests is math 😆

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    What makes you think that the EUs future will be bad (I conflate EU/Europe here)?

    Personally I think the next 5 years will be the bad ones before we're back on top of things.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Just look at germany, we are the core country of the EU. We are cooked. We need NOW a lot of reforms that should've been done 20 or more years ago, but the corrupt governments of the last 20 years just used the money from when we had good economical times to put it into their own pockets. Most notably, our pension system will crash, although the demographic problems have been obvious for like 40 years or so. Our pension system works basically where the working people finance the pensions of the pensioners. But this system doesn't work if the number of pensioners every year rises and simultaneously the amount of working people decreases. Already the government has to subsidize this system MASSIVELY because the pension contributions from the working people aren't enough to pay all pensions. We talking about LITERALLY a third of federal budget next year will be used to pay pensions. This means we barely have any money left for projects that will help us modernize the country, which is desperately needed in basically all areas.

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