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Cake day: June 11th, 2024

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  • After coming back from a year of parental leave I didn’t lose my job.

    My previous project came to an end just before I went on parental leave and the company couldn’t secure new projects locally.

    But because I was involved ipartially in a different department before, that department secured a internal budget for me as a Subject Matter Expert.

    Now I’m advising on that topic and was also brought in to a big internal project, so my job is secured for some time now.

    For me it’s extra difficult because I moved to a different country and have a really hard time learning the language, which is a must to get a different job here.


  • I’m born in Poland to Polish parents, but all their parents were born Germans. I moved to Germany when I was 11 and when someone asked me then I said I’m German. But then I moved to Sweden for 15 years, while there I would also say I’m German. I got the Swedish citizenship but you still can hear that I’m not a native Swede, but only Swedish people can hear it. So once I moved to Korea 4 years ago I used my Swedish passport to get in to the country (it was not on purpose but random chance, I could have chosen the polish one or the German one too). Anyway, if someone in Korea asks me where I’m from or what I am I almost always say I’m Swedish. with one exception, if a German here in Korea asks me then I say I’m German.

    I know it’s a bit easier for me because I look like I could be from any of those countries, but my identity is not tied to some specific geographic area so I have no problem being a geographical-identity-cameleon.









  • In the long run there is no way around it. To be honest if on device voices would be good enough then just sending the text version and let it read on the device in a somewhat natural voice would be kind of cool. I’m already using a special app which just reads any article I share with it in a fairly ok voice and I love this functionality, I don’t need to sit down and read a long article on my phone, I can do something else and just make it read the article to me.

    What I am worried about though are the people who do the research and who write the texts. Those sadly will also be replaced over time with machines and there is something we will really lose.