/int/ - certified time wasters

>>16035
It is. I don't know anybody who made 50k in their first job from all the humanities people I know. Or ever :DDD I have seen a few positions ranging from 60-80k in the private sector that require what is typically a humanities field of skills during my search, though. Needless to say these required things no graduate has. Even for BWL people that would be quite good I think. Might be normal for STEM but I assume anything above needs some years of relevant experience. Technically, the public sector offers these 50k figures to master graduates ~55k but usually, they miss the work experience/qualifications these jobs ask for These are rare as well. Usually a PhD or Postdoc is the same grouping but PhD only part time employment, outside of that they often are used for leading positions and big(ger) budget responsibilities
I applied for jobs in a lower range (first year 40-45k) though and while these are challenging I have some relevant experience and would be confident to acquire further skills and knowledge necessary in time.
My minimum is 36k which becomes around 2k netto/month that for living alone should suffice for now. And while I don't need to live inner city I would welcome the place being close to an S- or U-Bahn station and the city center being reachable in <30min. It is not Munich but still one of the expensive ones. There are 2ZKB places in good areas for 700-900€ 'warm' from one agency but I guess they are flooded with emails each month and I cannot expect to get one of these apartments if I actually would get this job. First I would have to get the job anyway. For now I am not sure if I should say my minimum already or place it a little higher and justify this with a comparison to the public sector where positions that require a BA start at 40k

>>16038
> Might be normal for STEM
I know people with a Dr. rer. nat. who started at under 50k.

>where positions that require a BA start at 40k
Is that supposed to be good or bad? Because a bachelor is - in any field - not much more than a glorified Ausbildung (in fact a lot of employers will prefer the latter one because those people have actually already worked somewhere), so 40k is pretty good for that actually, and it's already above average in like half the states.

Also, stop it with the random spoilers, it's not getting any less irritating.

>>16039
>I know people with a Dr. rer. nat. who started at under 50k.

Very calming. I assume they can increase quite a bit with the years, though.

>Is that supposed to be good or bad?

For me? Good because apparently, it pays better than what a private business is willing to pay. They would like a person with a degree but also accept someone with an Ausbildung according to the job posting. I was just considering the argument hey I have a degree and the state pays better for it, why don't you huh?

>BA is pretty much an Ausbildung

I guess. Dunno. I know people with an Ausbildung and while they certainly are not stupid, they simply don't know about some stuff and skills you learn in university and that come in handy at some jobs. Mind you I guess almost everybody can learn these. It's just that people are sieved beforehand in this system.
Doing my master's had many benefits for some skills and also did quite something when it comes to understanding and acquiring and situating new knowledge might also be age-related tbh but that is because I'm interested in what I studied, this is not true for everybody in the field of humanities.

>random spoilers

They include information that is not really relevant yet might still be interesting to know

>>16037
Here it costs 300 euros. So 2000e/month = 2000-1200+350=1150 euros in Russia. That's a decent salary much above average wage. 5-6 minimal wages.
And 50k/year is achievable only for top senior codegarches, actually a small part of them (among wagies).

>>16042
>Here it costs 300 euros.

Maybe I should consider WFH in Moscow working for the German government. I'm sure both the German and Russian governments will approve of my efforts. Schizo-Völkerfreundschaft.

Chinese class went well enough, I only made one minor mistranslation. Before class I went and picked up a book order and a book at the library. Got this 1930s Kröner Nietzsche for like 10 bucks and I borrowed a book on the German Peasants' War to check it out. It's huge as fuck and nobody seems to have ever read it because most of the pages are stuck together. With the illustrations in this "volksausgabe" it feels more like a children's book than a historical work.

Wanted to extend my borrowings at the East Asian Library too but it wasn't open when I went there and it closed just as my class ended so I ended up just writing an email asking the librarian to extend my borrowings.

At home I had lunch and also checked out the progress of my thesis' evaluation and apparently they picked out who will be the opponent. Mine ended up with a seemingly random lecturer who's an expert on Buddhism.
When I went to classical Chinese class I asked the lecturer there what happened, and he said it was essentially decided over his head. Initially it was given to someone who was an expert on Chinese legalism (The prof who I thought would actually get it. I know him relatively well and we drank together once at a conference and he helped me publish shit so it'd have been both in good hands academically and personally.) but he's getting eye surgery so he cannot read anything for some time. So in a 5 minute revision to the table of "who will read what" the chief administrator decided that she herself will read it, no worries.

So whatever. In an act of defiance, we went out drinking instead of class again. Don't exactly know what warranted it. I told them "Why are you asking me as if I would be the biggest opponent to this?".
I mean, I read classical Chinese in my free time. I actually work on this shit, it's you who are losing hours of training on this shit.
Had a cup of hot tea and it really energized me. The German class afterwards had few people attending, so we just talked in groups of three. I spent most of it talking about my research topic. I think this is the best form of training, when you're using it to talk about your major/research.

Saw a graffiti on the sidewalk that said "No homeland on a stolen territory!" and for a second I thought it was some Romanian nationalist nonsense about Hungarians being without a homeland before seeing a fainter line of text above it saying "Free Palestine".
It's odd how basically nobody seems to give a shit about the Israel war. Everyone is busy with the municipal and EU elections. Or just life.
Had a libtard party ask for my signature and I told them I won't sign because I'm hoping they crash and burn. Hardest political act of my life save for reading Lenin on the bus.

>>16019
It seems to stabilize my mood for some reason. Alongside sunlight.

I went to see a movie with my uncle about a year ago. He went to check something on his phone, but as the phone opened it appeared to be full of furry porn. I wasn’t that surprised, there were clues leading to a secret inclination to furry porn.

>>16046
Is your uncle a bachelor?
I never understand people who don't put their porn at least one layer under the one everyone can potentially see.
Hell, even when I was living alone I never had a raunchy wallpaper and my porn is in a folder on the "film and tv" drive.

>>16047
He’s been in a homosexual relationship for 15 years at least. I guess his kink is at least known by his partner.

>>16048
Ah, I see.

>>16040
> they are certainly not stupid

I'd say they are not certainly stupid. Some of the electricians were I work can't read schematics.

>>16050
Isn’t that kind of like how some musicians used to be unable to read notation?

Then again, a piano or a trumpet doesn’t burn down your house.

>>16051
That probably was before musical education was formalized.

Some people go through three and a half years of vocational school and don't learn much, either because they are not great at abstract thinking or because they don't want to learn anything. They then barely graduate with much good-will and two squinted eyes. In the current situation, they still land jobs, and they are good enough at certain tasks. That's OK, but I won't pretend that those people are very smart.

>>16052
If your house burns down because your electrician is an idiot, the part that's important to the insurance is that he's an electrician, not that he's an idiot, and they will pay.

But I don't think any of our electricians would create a really dangerous situation in a home.

>>16053
>That probably was before musical education was formalized.
No, that's still a thing today because musical education was formalized like 500 years ago already.
That said, without going into detail about how education everywhere (not just the trades) has been run into the ground, why would an electrician need to read schematics? That's a thing for electrical engineers. The electrician needs to know what phase is (höhö) and what spot on the wall he has to pull the wire through and what kind of load the electrical installation at hand can take.
It's like wondering why a bricklayer can't read an architectural blueprint.

>>16055
>why would an electrician need to read schematics?
To know how to wire up a motor.

>>16056
You need an electrician for that?
Wait, what kind of working class hero are you, comrade?

>>16057
The state of knowledge of accredited electricians is at times abysmal. Sometimes it's impressive how much these fellas know, at other times I was instructed with guiding them step-by-step on how to follow basic schematics.
t. teacher of the working class

The Immortal Science of Marxism Leninism dictates that those on the intellectual forefront should act as an Avantgarde for the working class. Portuernst is in tune with the theory.

Post a happy face if you have a holiday today.
:)

>>16055
> why would an electrician need to read schematics? That's a thing for electrical engineers
I do not concur.
We have electricians implemented changes highlighted in schematics.
We have electricians check for changes not documented in schematics.
We have electricians wire up entire production lines from schematics.

>>16059
Same experience.

>>16062
Sounds like your company is ran very well.

Well, what do you think about this chart? How does that sound like?

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2019-01-17-the-planetary-health-diet.html

>>16064
All named diets are shit, no exception.

>>16066
Is there a diet that has no name?

>>16067
Yeah, the "regular, well-balanced no-name diet that doesn't need a fancy name and whole concept behind it because otherwise idiots apparently can't adhere to it" diet. Ah, damn.

>>16068
Sounds like the planetary diet.

Didn't do much today. I went through a block of classical Chinese text from that short story and also wrote a short Chinese essay for class.
That translation's going to take a lot of editing work but for the first time in quite a while I feel like I'm getting a lot better, most likely because I changed up my methods.
In essence I am working from a print edition and I feel like it forces me to think more about the text as I input unknown stuff into pleco, since it doesn't allow me to just crtl-c ctrl-v bruteforce things. Probably sounds like a meme but it really feels like it changes how I approach the text.

I went out to run at noon and my mother disapproved. After like 10 minutes she knocked on the window and I almost fell of the treadmill because it suddenly stopped and I asked her why the fuck she turned it off and was surprised, because she didn't. After checking the fusebox and everything it turns out that it accidentally unplugged itself just as she knocked on the window. It felt surreal.

Had some green tea in the evening. Rediscovering tea again. I really need to buy a pack of actually good Earl Gray.

Pascal oddly enough described the difference between Swiss and French people I noticed while with my noble and tried to analyze since. In vanities he says : “The Swiss take offence at being called gentlemen, and prove [their nature of commoner] in order to be considered worthy of high office.”

That’s it! It’s been at least 400 years that people observe this difference between the French and the Swiss.

>>16071
>Rediscovering tea
Don’t half of the blogpost contain a tea-break? When did the tea stop??

I eat marzipan

>>16074
Weren't the Swiss peasants living in actual mud huts until like the end of the 19th century?
Also, congrats on the Marzipan. It feels good, doesn't it?

>>16077
You shouldn't have done that. There's no going back now. There's no going back.

THERE'S NO GOING BACK!

>>16079
I heard of this myth. But I couldn’t help but notice while wandering around the different cantons how much most of the farms were dating back to the 17-18h sometimes even 16th century, rural infrastructure seems to always have been pretty developed, most of those look decorated or are made of strong well masoned rocks, have clear architectural traditions and so on. Didn’t see that level of rural sophistication in France. There’s a mystery here imo

>>16089
I can't even remember where I heard it - whether I read it on a wikipedia spree or even from some post on a chan made by a swissball, I just had something in the back of my head, and it just fit your post.

>>16074
A why would the people of a land which was forged in battle against the nobles and lords, welcome being called alike a noble or a lord?

As for the tea: There's different kinds depending on how you make it or what quality of tea you use. For household and common consumption we have this very low quality earl grey tea which is almost powdery. You take two teabags, put them in 1.5 litres of hot water, add two spoons of sugar and some lemon juice after letting it seep for two minutes and you have a relatively sensible drink. I spent most of my childhood drinking this.

By rediscovering tea I meant buying loose leaves and making it with the Chinese tea set I own.

Cleaning up my Downloads folder. I will never properly organize this stuff. Accepting that right off the bat and simply separating everything into a series of subfolders by file type. So far 600 mp4s, 580 webps, and 1200 mp3s. These are from the past year, maybe a little longer. A lot, but it could be worse.

>>16093
If you had to sort it by topics, what would main folders be like?

>>16094
Good question...
Music looks to be a lot of Indie rock and blues. The MP4 folder is largely imageboard-tier stuff. Webp folder...no rhyme or reason to any of it. Why did I save this?

Classes went fine yesterday. Afterwards I went to a nearby Asian deli to buy some tea and I got a package that has "Earl Gray Imperial" written on it. Strangely enough the prices weren't unbearable. Well, they did make the packet 10g smaller.
Checked out the ramen section too and they had indomie ramens so I got one because normal stores don't seem to carry it and I'm always surprised how good it is for some reason.

I went to bed a bit late. Unrelated, but I had to change the lightbulb in my desk lamp because as I turned it on it immediately went dark. Luckily I was stubborn enough to have a G9 type bulb in store. Honestly, changing a lightbulb feels like a very odd activity you don't think too much about, but it's one of the few things that basically changed very little since the invention of the bulbs themselves.

Lazy friday.
Work is not particularly fun at the moment.
I feel tired and was stung by a tick (not related).
I wish I could walk through the forest instead of sitting in the office.

>>16105
>I wish I could walk through the forest instead of sitting in the office.

The dialectics of modernity. What holds you back from pulling a Ted and living in a shack?

>>16106
>What holds you back from pulling a Ted and living in a shack?
Because "walking through the forest" does not necessariyl mean "abandoning all society", which I don't want to for reasons. Without these reasons, I would have probably already gone off grid.

As I’m reading « Les Misérables », I stumble mostly on two types of words I can’t comprehend, first the reference to revolution, a lot of personalities, most of them I don’t know of and secondly words referencing either jobs and tools, mostly manual.

I think I’m stating the obvious, but with industrialization and taylorism, people need to know less and less word, since less and less specific knowledge is needed. The vocabulary is getting poorer and poorer as a result of the disappearance of tools, fields of works knowledge and so on. And the new jobs and new tools being fewer, it’s not a change, but more of a loss. This loss of words is another face of a broader loss of meaning induced by taylorism and post-industrial society maybe one most graspable to my bougie mind.

>>16108
>since less and less specific knowledge is needed.
Uh, actually it's the other way round. With industrialization division of labor and compartmentalization, specialization became only deeper, all while the total number of specializations rose, each with their own professional language.

>>16110
Knowledge is useless and close to worthless in an age of GPT.

>>16114
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>>16115
Programming mongoloids and creatives and all the other ass-sitting jobs are being obsoleted at record rate. LLMS outperform doctors. Being a smartass earned for grades in school, but in the real world, it's increasingly useless! I celebrate this because it will take lots of arrogant worthless pieces of shit down one or five notches. Advertisement geniuses and Codegarchs will soon collect empty bottles in parks for deposit! Serves them right!

>>16116
>elaborate statistics will topple actual understanding and experience

It automates certain human practices, sure. But thinking that automating some behavioral niches will replace a human bean is plainly stupid. Come back when neural net statistics and ai expert system shit work together like it happens in humans in some way.

I just heard a nice sentence from the wise asmongold while binging yt

> why should you believe in capitalism, if you can't work towards achieving capital?

general topic was (student) debts, housing market and wages.

>>16116
You are half right, half wrong.
Why would the smart asses stop being smart asses? We just abolish capitalism and live in hyper automated communism.
Free stuff for everyone; created and maybe even designed by AI.

Problems weren't.