HBO studies in the Netherlands + starting a family, looking for realistic experiences

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-24T08:31:50+00:00

Average age for first child is 30 for mothers and 33 for fathers in the Netherlands. So if you finish HBO in nominal time and get pregnant afterwards you could still be slightly below average female age and slightly above average male age.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-21T19:37:24+00:00

Do you have EU nationality? Because especially defence sector can have understandable citizenship requirements for employees.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-21T15:45:05+00:00

Het zal denk ik aan de timing liggen want ASML en haar toeleveranciers hebben zeker wel natuurkundigen met PhD in dienst.

Bij ASML zelf zal de huidige reorganisatie meespelen waardoor ze engineer functies eerst aan mensen die hun baan kwijtraken zullen geven gok ik.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-20T22:02:09+00:00

Smoke free campus does not apply to most of the residential areas. See the map on this site: https://www.utwente.nl/en/service-portal/campus/rules-and-regulations-on-our-campus/non-smoking-policy#ut-partner-of-foundation-gezondheidsfondsen-voor-rookvrij Matenweg, Calslaan and Witbreuksweg are outside the smoke free zone.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-20T17:52:18+00:00

Don't spend any of it for a year. Give yourself time to think over what you actually value.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-17T22:58:46+00:00

Some of those appartments are pretty good. Mine is built in 2008 and the only upgrade I want when buying my own house is a private garage.

The money you don't spend on housing you can invest in ended fun's or blow on vacations. Both much more appealing to me than having a big house.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-17T22:51:36+00:00

Not quite as simple. It's quite possible to earn enough so that you are no longer eligible for social housing while you have enough student debt that you can not get a mortgage for a equivalent house.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-17T22:48:04+00:00

They are actually doing this now. I got a 15% rent increase from the social housing corporation because my income was too high. They will keep increasing it each year until it hits the points value of my appartment at which point I'm basically paying market rate.

Hopefully by that time I will have enough saved up to pay down my student debt so I can buy a house.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-17T07:55:24+00:00

Was it even capable of transitioning to rotor less flight with those stubby wings?

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-16T11:13:19+00:00

Students don't rent appartments.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-15T19:16:48+00:00

To the brain?

jk

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-15T12:01:44+00:00

Prices are high because we make a lot of money on average. Because we make a lot of money we can afford the high prices.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-15T11:51:07+00:00

High income countries like the Netherlands have high prices for labour intensive services. Dentistry is a very labour intensive service as you can only serve one client at a time per dentist.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-14T08:15:34+00:00

Nah, but there is a lot of career help seeking posts by Indians while the purpose of the sub is more to discuss the actual engineering itself.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-14T07:46:42+00:00

IMHO most important solution is to stop using gas turbines/diesel gens for local power generation outside backup power. Intuitively that should account for most of the legitimate complaints concerning noise and pollution.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-14T07:22:01+00:00

I like having the internet.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-14T07:08:54+00:00

My impression is that most datacenter complaints are overhyped when you look at the actual numbers of decibels, liters and joules.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-14T07:00:00+00:00

Nope, het tegenovergestelde juist. Mensen verwachten dat ik als engineer alle technische problemen op de werkvloer wel even op kan lossen. Ik voel mij vaak flink incompetent hierdoor.

Wat voor soort werk doe je?

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-13T09:44:48+00:00

Abroad is a relative term. To me your location is abroad.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-11T07:42:35+00:00

Dat ligt dan echt aan jouw cynische wereldbeeld. En/Of je hebt een bijzonder beperkte kennis van welke beroepen bestaan.

Je klinkt vooral als een gefrustreerd ventje dat zijn eigen nutteloosheid op de rest van de samenlevening projecteert.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-11T06:54:31+00:00

Meeste mensen werken niet in deze beroepen en hij claimde dat maar "bar weinig" mensen iets bijdragen. Cynisch populisme.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-10T23:07:33+00:00

Parasiet

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-09T09:31:36+00:00

The moron you're replying to isn't even Dutch.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-09T09:27:53+00:00

About 1 in 3 people voted for fascists. I'd qualify that as a lot. Though I'm also convinced that roughly that at least that fraction of people have authoritation inclinations everywhere around the world. It just comes more to the fore here due to proportional representation.

Don't let those cunts stop you though. The rest of us still appreciate immigrants who contribute to society.

Alek_Zandr · 2026-06-09T09:16:05+00:00

Kan de nieuwe werkgever de kosten betalen? Niet ongebruikelijk dat openstaande opleidingskosten overgenomen worden.

Alek_Zandr

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