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@retoor Nice! so it's just for the cool people and that one guy.
No new job yet, I need to check LinkedIn again, but it's been quite an eventful week, the day-to-day started, went to do my driving theory, finally got round to hiring a bookkeeper and a friend of mine finally got a job after (technically) becoming homeless.
I did look on https://gamejobs.eu/ as well (Utrecht is 2 hours, with 1 train change away but is the closest major city) but haven't looked further for jobs in the games industry. I did talk to some recruiters at indigo (game dev conference) a year and half ago but I don't have enough professional game dev experience so they told me to apply to web departments instead. (a lot of amateur stuff though, figured maybe doing uni course after that and applied at Breda but decided last minute to change the specialization which was bad idea)
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@retoor
It's been about 3 years now, unfortunately it been an emotional downward spiral for most of it, a good amount of it isn't because of NL persee. The core reason for being back was because I want to do stuff in the games industry, either running my own studio (preferably) or joining a company (to get to meet other devs) and not wanting to leave my mom alone in Africa (nothing nice happens to older white woman living alone there).
There is a lot more baggage than what I can put in 1 or 2 messages but in short; after coming this side my well paying job is equivalent to stocking shelves at the Jumbo (work is paying me more than double since then though, ~5k invoice every month), we were wanting to rent a place so we could decide what to do/move to next but couldn't do that without changing tax residence which opened a bureaucratic hell hole and we still couldn't rent a place since I wasn't employed in NL so we couldn't
"inscrijven" so we had to buy
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@retoor Major clients dropped company, my dad had a heart attack (he's doing better now), I gained 15kg 🤮. Had 1 very good French/Spanish/Moroccan client, and 1 super toxic north african one + the semi-toxic current one. (And much much more happened). Oh and I'm single, working from home and barely get out
What I have enjoyed however was going to converances about thing I directly care about, bands actually come here for concerts, public transport is safe and revisiting places I went to as a child like the Efteling, also snow.
There are a lot of little things I prefer about my old place than here but most of that was also location and luck, and a lot of stuff that would have happened regardless e.g. Dad and job. Rationally I wouldn't go back, emotionally I miss it, not as much as I miss Japan (as a tourist) though.
Apologies about the long messages, not sure how I could have condensed it more. And your self? You mentioned staying in Ukraine before -
@retoor Yeah thinking back on it, we should probably just have gone to Germany (but I speak it very little).
Yeah, it's bonkers - I missed it by 3 points but I was just running free online tests. Will look that book up, thanks
She doesn't but it's a bit more complex - since she was a single mom who wanted to take care of her kid. She never made a lot of money, which means no/barely any retirement fund (and what she had got stolen by the gov). My dad was a deadbeat and she had to sue him twice to even pay alimony and tuition.
...I'm talking about violent home invasions/burglary and gang rape, there is a lot of racism there (you can avoid it if you're rich enough but where we were living got a squatter camp a couple of years ago) -
@retoor It's essentially a densely packed are of people living 2x2m huts made of random pieces of wood and sheet metal, I've attached an image. Where people are destitute and generally be part of gangs (out of necessity) had a couple of friends from there, and a barista at a previous employer lived in one. Dude couldn't even have a laptop without it getting stolen and had to bury it ~2Km away to keep it safe. (rent would be about 10 euros a month)
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