Yes, definitely. They already have employees who are US citizens.

I would say most countries in Europe don't discriminate like that. But a job is required. In case you are interested in a job as an operator and would consider going to Sweden I have seen both MAX IV and ESS frequently advertise for operators.

But then you can do the trick that you say that the contribution from your organisation isn't money but people. So you take some existing people, use their time as leverage to get funding to hire some more people. And suddenly people is a currency.

And also this concept that your organisation must provide the same amount of funding as the amount you are applying for. What is that? You can only get money if you already have money? That makes no sense. How do you get the initial money then? Steal it from somewhere?

Maybe in the end when you sum everything together you have lost money... And especially if you don't get any funding. Then it was all wasted time that you could have spent to do the work.

And then say you get funding for three years to cover the salary for one person. Then you first need to recruite someone and train them before they can do the work. So that takes like two years + supervision time.

I think that's it. It's like enrichment food bowls for cats. German people maybe need complicated life admin or they get bored and depressed.

Maybe that is the explanation 🤔 Time-consuming, complicated and messy administration is a German thing. And if they didn't like it, why would they still have it? Perhaps it's like an everyday challenge for enjoyment and enriching your life?

It seems like most common option for German people is to donate things online. But then you need to arrange a meeting time, talk to some unknown person and things become time-consuming, complicated and messy.

And then you go to Denmark and every single tiny village might have more than one secondhand store. Amazing how two countries next to each other can be so different.

It makes me annoyed. Things are not supposed to work like that. There should be a system which makes it easy to reuse things. I never realised before how important secondhand stores are for that and how the system fails if they don't exist.

Och ibland blir jag så trött på Tyskland... T.ex. när de inför "fancy" ny funktion så man kan ansöka om ett folkbokföringsbevis online och så visar det sig att man bara kan göra det om man först ansöker om ett speciellt ID-kort. Och tider för det finns såklart bara 1 timme bort om typ 3 månader.

Wrote them an angry email after their last butchered attempt to deliver a package. Asked ChatGPT to translate into German and it added "Vielen Dank für Ihre Hilfe" by itself at the end. ChatGPT is way too polite. Maybe it has never tried to get a package delivered by UPS.

Okay, that was a lie. Berlin is most often strange to me... Like why is there no upraising against shops being closed on Sundays!? Awful thing. Hate it. Saturdays are so stressful because of it.

Happy birthday! 😀

Sometimes I think of things that really makes me miss the UK. So much that it hurts in my heart. But it's the same when I think of things in Sweden.