I also feel like our generation doesn't really have such a strict ruleset anymore to break free from during a midlife crisis. I'm 40 and my friends have just always been doing their "weird hobbies" like biking, travelling etc. There's noone who suddenly realizes at 40 that they have missed out and always wanted to see the pyramids, ride a motorcycle or completely change their career. Those who want to ride a motorbike have owned one for years, those who want to travel have done so since their 20s. The expectations have changed. You don't have to conform to a strict ruleset anymore and give up a lot when you become an adult. So there are less people with major regrets and "I wish I had done XYZ" in their 40s. At least in my bubble
Waldelfe
joined 3 months ago
Use your expensive/show-off devices everywhere, even if it's extremely unpractical: drive the car/take the horse to go to a place next door. Have the most expensive, top-notch devices to do the easiest and most mundane tasks.
That reminds me of a former job I had. I had a male coworker who refused to make coffee. It was a small company with only 10 employees and we had this really cheap machine where you just put coffee in the upper part and then let the water run through. Don't know what it's called. Anyway, that coffee machine had ONE (1!) button: on/off. He'd always try to make me or the only other woman in the office make the coffee because "You women know better how to do those things. I never make coffee". The best part: he was one of the engineers in charge of repairing the power tools that the company sells!
So, what happened if we refused or weren't there? There just wasn't any coffee! Those guys would rather not have their coffee than make it themselves!
A lot of brands have special barista oat milk, usually with pea protein I think or rapeseed oil to make the froth stable. Here in Germany they are often labeled "Barista oat milk".
I have one always in my pocket, too, but I'd argue it's not "unexpectedly useful".
You also had decent profiles where you could write more texts about you. That could give you an idea of who that person is. There is a difference between "Tea or Coffee? - Tea." and "Tea or Coffee? - I like green teas but also some black teas like assam. I sometimes bake scones to eat with the tea." A lit of modern apps don't even give you the option to show your personality more.
I'm learning a bit Dutch. We're quite close to the dutch border and have been going there for vacation and shopping for a while now and would like to be able to at least order food/ask for the toilet etc.
~~Pflegerinnen~~ Krankenschwestern
Pfleger ist doch auch nur so ein linksgrünversifftes neumodisches Wort, das erfunden wurde, weil Männer sich bei Krankenschwester nicht mitgemeint fühlten.
I feel you. I worked in logistics in an office position for a long time. I'm very organized, so I liked it and was good at it. But wages have always been low and with the current cost of living you can hardly make ends meet with those logistics job. Managed to switch to IT, mostly project management, and thought I finally found something that I'm good at and that's promising a decent wage. My contract for the last project is about to expire and jobs in IT are few and hard to get.
It's really disheartening, you think you do everything right and fight your way into an in-demand field just to have the rug pulled from under you.
Also I read somewhere that an EpiPen works in like 95% of cases. There is a small but existing chance that it won't work and you just die from anaphylaxis.
Als mein Mann vor mehreren Jahren bei der Einbürgerung einen deutschen Namen ausgesucht hat, habe ich es nicht so ganz verstanden, weil jeder Dimitrij schreiben und aussprechen kann. Schon traurig zu sehen, dass er recht damit hatte. Wir haben dann auch meinen deutschen Nachnamen bei der Hochzeit gewählt. Ich hätte gerne seinen angenommen, aber traurigerweise ist es nunmal momentan besser, wenn der Name deutsch ist.
Mascha Kaléko was born in 1907 as the daughter of a Russian father and an Austrian mother. The family fled from the persecution of Jews in Galicia to Germany in 1918. Mascha spend her teenage years in Berlin. In 1928 she marries the philologist Saul Kaléko. In 1934 she meets and falls in love with the Jewish composer Chemjo Vinaver and starts a four year long affair until her divorce from Saul in 1938.
Chemjo and Mascha flee to New York where she continues to write poetry in German, her mother language. By the time she wrote this poem she already lived in New York, where she suffered from loneliness and the fact that she could not get her German poetry published.
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Those are the instructions for mine.