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As a piece of anecdata, I moved from a country with a common theme of really long hours and overtime as a culturally accepted thing, to another country where by
by DoingIsLearning 5y ago
As a piece of anecdata, I moved from a country with a common theme of really long hours and overtime as a culturally accepted thing, to another country where by in large most companies are family friend, everyone works exactly their prescribed hours and overtime is rare. Also a very large chunk of the population works (voluntarily) between 28 and 40 hours.
My relation with my partner was under a lot of strain in the previous country, we were coping but definitely not in love.
Now we actually have time for ourselves, we've had children together, we actually have time to enjoy our money and just have fun. I don't have to unwind from work, I don't take work home and we are truly in love.
I am absolutely certain that the move although hard at first vastly contributed to us being happily together now.
Corporations are just squeezing the best from us and leaving anyone less resilient to bite the dust. There absolutely is a better way, the company I work for is vastly profitable even during COVID times, nothing is actually lost, just ever so slightly decelerated from that tech company relentless pace of 'do it all today not tomorrow'.
- lostmsu 5y agoCare to name the countries?
- DoingIsLearning 5y agoUK to NL.