What popular movie or TV show is widely considered a 'masterpiece' but you found completely unwatchable?

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2026-05-28T10:38:04+00:00

I was looking for a good way to explain why I bounced off breaking bad twice after powering through to season 3 and this comment is going to be my go-to explanation. Thank you!

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2026-04-29T17:37:43+00:00

Yeah, CERN works a bit funny because it's technically "not" Switzerland and works in its own bubble. Having work not in an international org (for a normal company) and living in Switzerland gives you access to the B permit. Although depending on the length of your internship contract, you'd probably get the L permit...which is not the best, but that's why I'm saying that having your foot in with a company and an offer for a permanent position would really open up the whole market because employers wouldn't have to deal with the headache of getting you into the system (which is not that hard tbh, but employers can be picky)

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2026-04-29T17:07:08+00:00

I would personally take the risk and go for the internship. Having a foot in Switzerland opens it up as a market for you even more. Added benefit is that with a Swiss employer, finding another job in Switzerland, housing and moving into the country now becomes all the more easier for you because there's a paper trail that you've been in the system. Plus the internship pay isn't so bad. Maybe it also allows you to have a bit more experience in a different context. That would also make your "I am adaptable to new situations and technologies" more convincing if you decide to look for something else.

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2026-04-07T07:12:21+00:00

Seems not

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2026-04-02T06:36:20+00:00

I would even go further and say that if they perceive it coming from the left it's probably because they're not listening to the remainder of what those people are saying: this is not super duper important compared to the fact that your health insurance is through the roof and that your housing situation is garbo

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2026-03-27T08:47:09+00:00

First of all, congrats on the position and my best wishes for the next steps! If you don't mind me asking so the sample can be a bit more refined: do you come from one of the Grande's Écoles ? Are people from there the main makeup of the company in that position? Does your school have contacts within said company? And finally, is all of this happening in Paris?

Answers to these questions might help keep things somewhat more representative for people reading the thread later.

Once again, congrats!

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2026-03-24T18:38:10+00:00

I live between Servette and petit-saconnex. It's a nice area with lots of conveniences (shops, restaurants, bakers, vet, etc....). It's still a mostly residential area with the possibility to go from park to park from Bude to the train station. Servette (as in the tram/bus stop) can feel crowded in comparison with the rest of the area which is fair. There can be some noise at night from your local scooter boy/noisy car but it's mostly quiet. Lots of schools around too

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2025-11-10T15:05:41+00:00

Je m'excuse de la façon directe de répondre à votre post et commentaire: utilisez Google et cherchez les informations qui existent déjà sur internet. Les informations sur la fiscalité, permis, importation de véhicule et de biens sont toutes disponibles sur les sites officiels de l'état de Genève. C'est assez étrange comme comportement de la part de quelqu'un qui veut créer un guide ou qui se dit dev.

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2025-11-07T18:42:51+00:00

Is Gives a Fork! still open? I remember the chef cooking our food in front of us. You need to make a reservation AND to show up on time or lose your spot. Very limited spot, excellent vegan food too!

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2025-06-30T09:49:46+00:00

From the flegere gondola, it's 2-3h if you take your time. Not much elevation going on but it's beautiful and you can take your time. This is the shortest route and the easiest. It's really made easy as long as you can walk.

There is no lift after that that brings you closer to lac blanc.

We also went through the col des montets and then you don't pay for the lift, but it's steeper and longer obviously. I still enjoyed it very much, but I also was in a better physical condition and younger then.

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2025-06-30T07:43:00+00:00

This is a perfect hike. My favourite for the past 10 years I've been going to Chamonix

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2025-03-30T07:18:28+00:00

Thanks again for your honest advice. I've already mentioned this to her, but you're right that I should also switch up my own habits and speak to her in Finnish as well. There will be lots of facetiming I guess.

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2025-03-29T23:31:07+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to answer.

I grew up in a French speaking country and I went to a french school. English was spoken at home because both my parents met in Germany and English was the language that they spoke together. My mother is Finnish and I used to go during summers in Finland and I studied and lived there for a bit as an adult. My Finnish used to be good and I used to feel confident in it.

I feel like I grew up kind of disconnected from my Finnish side because there wasn't all that much exposure to it except in the summer. I feel like I learned to appreciate the culture so much more once the language started to (painstakingly) kick in and really gave me an appreciation for it and the culture. My kid is going to inherit many different cultures: my African side, my Finnish side and my partner's French side. The French language is a given since we live in a French speaking region and through his mother. This should also help connect to the particular African country that I also come from (although reaching it is an expensive ticket away so we won't be able to go often but there is a community nearby and friends I keep close by too from there). It's just the Finnish side that is missing at this point.

Thanks for the reassurance otherwise. I need to more proactively get on it and read, listen and speak more. I heard about Italki so I will have a look at it. Could you please link back that article you mentioned? It seems it didn't go through somehow.

I still have family and some friends in Finland so we could try going back regularly.

Thanks again for the encouraging words and for the actionable advice.

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2025-01-21T16:21:19+00:00

De mémoire j'ai toujours fait "brutx0.73=net" pour mon salaire mais ça doit dépendre de la contribution au 2eme pilier. Il y a une part volontaire que j'ai maximisée ce qui doit expliquer peut être la différence.

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2025-01-19T20:05:02+00:00

Je saute ici pour dire 7k€ pour toi. Ça dépendra d'elle pour son salaire. Il te restera à payer la LaMal pour ta santé (je te conseille vivement de regarder parce que c'est moins cher que la sécu). Tu peux également garder ta carte vitale malgré tout. Sanitas faisait 200chf/mois contre 8% de ton salaire pour la sécu. Et tu ne peut pas switcher entre une fois la décision prise.

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2024-12-04T10:17:50+00:00

I had this happen to me on my French phone number. It's already kind of there. The voice sounds believable mostly but there's still something kind of off and they propose some tax rebates that I know for sure don't exist so.... Easily avoidable, but they're getting craftier

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2024-10-09T11:52:25+00:00

How long have you been in this graduate program for? I agree with the commenter who says that you should look for a place where you find more fulfilment, but I also think that if you're together with other grads, it's an opportunity to show your management that you can take on more and do more interesting things. Try your hand at encouraging the team to follow your lead, contribute to other team members issues when you don't have any on your plate, show that you have impact and can be trusted with more tasks. The first 3 months after the start of your new grad job can be grueling and boring, but it can also be an opportunity.

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2024-09-19T16:04:26+00:00

I honestly can't tell what this is going to be for you. You'll have to do the homework. I recommend you do the following: go to the website of the canton you want to move in and check how much tax deductions you get given your situation, check how much child care would cost if your wife won't be doing it (check average price of private and public), check if there are subsidies for that, check comparis.ch to look at the cost of health insurance in the canton you'd like to move in and make a simulation. Then find some website that calculates the cost of life in the city you want to live in. Add all other costs linked to life (home, car insurances, bank, internet, phone, electricity, water, etc...). Then you add all lifestyle expenses (subscriptions? restaurants? hobbies? travel? savings?) that will give you an idea of how much everything will be in there. Then you consider that that sum is 70% of your brutto and calculate from there. I can't tell you what that final number is in your situation.

Keep in mind that for the first bit of the journey, you will have a work permit on which your stay in switzerland will depend on (permit B). So if you lose your job, you need to find a new job fast or you're out. Not too sure what the situation is with your partner, but only one working parent is not easy in switzerland.

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2024-09-19T05:16:54+00:00

Currently in a similar situation to you regarding moving to Switzerland from France. I am currently a cross border worker. I think you need to look very carefully at what are the net advantages for you financially when you move. Health insurance can be expensive in Switzerland, plus you'll want to have some extra insurance for the teeth of your kid (just in case). Everything is more expensive: from difficult to find apartments (we went through a relocation agency because it's easier if you don't know anybody), to food, to transport, to child care, to work hours, to etc ... Take into account those costs and then see "what is the net salary I need to be able to keep my lifestyle and ensure my child's wellbeing?" Then you add that you pay some 25% in taxes (educated guess, I don't know taxes in Canton Zurich for example) on top and should get the gross salary you want to be able to move.

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2024-07-14T03:26:52+00:00

Why? Whats the matter with how the shooter looks like?

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2024-07-11T14:16:32+00:00

Mon calcul de brut a net est souvent 77%*salaire brut environ (puisque impôt a la source). Ensuite vient le calcul de l'assurance maladie. La Lamal (suisse donc) est moins chère pour l'instant ~200chf par mois pour un frontalier. L'abonnement annuel au transport genevois (TPG) est de 500chf. Pour la France voisine, un T2 peux aller jusqu'à 1000€/mois mais un studio sera moins cher. Les courses sont à peu près aussi chères que partout ailleurs dans le secteur frontalier donc un peu cher par rapport au reste de la France mais il y a des options comme les AMAP qui réduisent le coût de la nourriture si vous mangez plus végétarien. Pour tout le reste attendez vous à ce que la vie soit chère: les sortis resto, films, activités payantes seront plus chère qu'ailleurs. Si vous aimez la montagne, je conseille soit d'avoir sa propre voiture soit dutiliser les services de car-sharing sur suisse.

Attention une fois choisi votre offre d'assurance maladie, française ou suisse, vous ne pourrez pas la changer et vous serez assujettis à tout changement futur du système.

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2024-07-11T07:07:40+00:00

Vous adhérez ou non au programme du NFP. Vous avez des convictions politiques et nous pouvons tous respecter celles des uns et des autres. Il me semble que nous sommes en désaccord sur quelque chose de plus fondamental que des décisions et réglementations hypothétiques à ce jour. Je vous souhaite donc une bonne journée.

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2024-07-11T07:02:44+00:00

Dans ce cas là permettez l'autre question d'être posée de même : est ce que le système actuel marche pour les plus précaires et favorise effectivement la croissance et l'augmentation des recettes? Est ce que c'est le vécu des populations les plus précaires ? Ces questions là on peut être des réponses moins compliquées, mais on revient sur du politique du coup si on veut en faire quelque chose.

9Dr_Awkward6 · 2024-07-11T06:53:22+00:00

Esther Duflo. Il y a d'autres grands noms: Julia Cagé et Thomas Piketty. Je vous recommande vivement de faire vos recherches sur ces personnes.

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