God please let me move to Europe I don't even care what language I have to learn I just wanna be able to live without worrying about affording a doctor appointment.

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 53 points 1 year ago (44 children)

If you work in academia, you don't need to learn a new language. English is the working language. Also the 5 weeks of holiday is nice, but what really helps is the working day.

I started as a bioinformatician a month ago. I come in to the office at 0830 have coffee from 09:00 til 09:45 with my boss and colleagues, work a bit, have lunch from 12:00 untill 13:15, work a bit, go home at 15:30. That's my day.

[–] jigsaw250@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Seven hour day with an hour and fifteen minute lunch. What kind of magic is this? What's the catch?

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

The catch is that you live in Europe and cops won't beat you to death.

[–] gingernate@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

sOcIaLiSm

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are summer hours. In the rest of the year I'll be expected to work an additional 45 minutes. Officially we only get 30 minutes for lunch, but no-one cares. When our contact in admin is in we keep it to 45 minutes.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

30-45 minutes for lunch, where do you live, in the Netherlands?

In France it's 1h30 usually (give or take a bit depending the company).

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

We take around a hour and a half but we're not officially supposed to.

[–] CoolBeance@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Well this might be an anomaly but the company I worked for in the Philippines gave you a dedicated hour for lunch and two 15-minute breaks, plus two hours weekly for any of the workshops/learning opportunities they provide.

[–] sederx@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

lol i work a third of that

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