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I live in france, and I spent several years without a job because of depression, lack of motivation, lack of degree and experience as a C++ developer. Those ye
by jokoon 4y ago
I live in france, and I spent several years without a job because of depression, lack of motivation, lack of degree and experience as a C++ developer.
Those years taught me to live with little money. Here in in france every unemployed citizen can get welfare since 1989, it's a low amount of money but it's enough.
So when I found work, I managed to save a lot of money (less than 10k), because I did not change my lifestyle: no heating in the south of france, eating cheap, no travel, no car, no gadgets.
Of course the jobs I got were either for training or trial periods, so I always end without a job.
To be really honest, the antiwork movement is quite a revelation for me. I don't feel like I must beg for a job. It feels so good. I can still live without working, and it helps a lot to negotiate the work I want to do.
- 5350-uiop-1130 4y agowhat about rent? i think that's the main thing that makes it difficult to just go off the grid for me.
- danuker 4y agoBuy a cheap place. https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/prices_by_city.jsp?displayCurrency=USD&itemId=101 https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/prices_by_city.jsp?dis...
- sedawk 4y agoBesides rent, it is difficult to make this work in the United States, because important things like healthcare is tied to your employer, no employment means either no or very expensive private healthcare insurance :(
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- ajsnigrutin 4y ago...and retirement? When you get old, you cannot work anymore, not even that much. Although, both (rent and retirement) can be achieved with some abuse of the social benefits in france.
- sofixa 4y agoThere is a minimal retirement pension in France even if you've never worked in your life, which is OK if you live frugally, don't have to pay rent, or have some previous savings (or a combination of those).
- saiya-jin 4y agoor having a family... having kids is relatively expensive even in France
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoYou are not by chance somebody famous, who contributed alot to a open source project alot of us use daily?
- culopatin 4y agoIt’s easy to feel that way when the rest of the people who are working are subsidizing your lifestyle.