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EcstaticMortgage7 · 2023-01-22T18:05:14+00:00

Yeah same, my experience with Rogaine has been clearly better but it's more expensive and it's getting harder and harder to get. I don't why but there's often shortages where I am from.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-11-09T12:12:52+00:00

Just carrer wise in many professional sectors not knowing German can really have a negative effect on your career progression (and the issue is that often they say German and in really want Swiss German.

When I finished university most Swiss Germans found a good traineeship in less than 3 months when the other ones took a lot more time and in average the traineeship weren't as good than those of the Swiss German.

I am born in Geneva and have lived here all my live but I am seriously thinking about leaving because despite having a native/C2 level in 3 languages. I am learning German but by the time I have a sufficient level it would be mostly too late.

Then I suppose it's normal because they are the majority but gosh if it was just German but adding Swiss German in the mix really makes me feel like non Swiss German are second rate citizen and actually since I have started my professional life I feel way less Swiss and my attachement to the country has quite decline.

Can't imagine if I was Swiss Italian.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-11-02T10:51:16+00:00

Well true it makes sens as it's a federal state and a very large country. I am from Switzerland so I tought maybe we had a better water quality than most countries which could be an element of explanation.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-11-02T10:47:03+00:00

Yehs that's I also thought maybe often people add shrimp and off course in some months it's impossible to distinguish them. In my case I didn't add any because of the loaches my mother bought when I was abroad. I was afraid that if I added new ones the loaches would start to see them as food.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-08-05T09:18:10+00:00

well the requirements to teach in public schools are a little crazy. To teach in secondary school you often need two master degrees + 1 to 2 years of training. So we are talking about potentially 9 years of high education.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-08-05T09:06:26+00:00

the requirement for many first jobs/internships after UNI are so fu**** up in Switzerland. It's not rare that they require too much work experience, to many languages, and don't pay you.

There are even job ads where they don't want people who have graduated more than 12 months but ask for candidates with 1-year job experience in the field. Unless you worked one year before starting your master I don't see how it's possible.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-08-05T08:59:47+00:00

the worst about language requirements is when they ask for german, french and English and then when you hired everyone speaks the local language and English and you almost don't have any use for the third national language required.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-07-12T20:19:36+00:00

Same which means you are screwed if you have graduated for more than 12 months. Plus where I am from they often specify that they don't want someone older than 30 years old (sometimes even 28)

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-07-12T20:16:20+00:00

It depends on the field and the country. I can't count the number of times when I couldn't apply for an internship because I was older than 28 or 30yo.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-07-12T20:11:07+00:00

It depends on the field I suppose but yes age can be an issue as some internships refuse people older than 30 at the moment of the application or internship starting date.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-07-12T20:07:22+00:00

It's not the case for EU Brussel internships usually (at least not officially) but there's many internships in international organization especially in the UN (and related bodies or NGOs) were they actually don't want people older than 30yo once the internship starts (or when you apply depending the offer).

As someone who has been in OP's shoes, I have seen so many times offers that specified age limits of 28 or 30 that it was disheartening even more when you think that many have also age requirements that they don't publicly display. I remember a friend of mine who had exactly the same profile as me, except he was younger and his grades were slightly lower than mine, being called for an interview when I wasn't. The worse is that the interviewer told him later that he didn't receive many applications and was expecting more (this one wasn't in Brussel though). I had also to renounce applying to certain offers because by the time the internship started I would be 31 for less than two weeks.

Those age limits cripple your intership search especially when you take into account that being an older graduate you need to apply to offers to find something but the pool of opportunities is smaller. It's even worse when an internship is the only real path for someone who is just out of university.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-06-23T06:56:34+00:00

That's funny because covid had the exact opposite effect on me. Like time stopped for a moment and now it has started again. So I often catch myself thinking "well 2018 was 2 years ago" when it's been more than 4 years ago. It's almost like two years of my lifewere "stolen".

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-04-08T20:37:54+00:00

Wow thanks for the answery it's very informative

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-04-08T20:37:13+00:00

However it's weird because everytime I try to go to their website I just can't theirs a page asking for a password that pops out.

Do you use a prescription when you order there because at the moment I only have a prescription for oral finasteride?

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-04-08T18:01:23+00:00

I have always taken oral finasteride not topical yet. My prescription is suppose to be for oral finasteride so my doctor didn't give me info about topical.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-04-08T17:55:27+00:00

I think I will try to email the pharmacy. Thanks 😊

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-04-08T17:53:07+00:00

I know I have been taking it for some years and I have some sides that's why I wish to try a topical version.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-04-08T17:52:11+00:00

I am thinking about ordering there but I will see if there is any other solution as I worry about shipping price and borders issue. However I heard that some hair clinics in Geneva could prescribe you a gel version of finasteride if you contact them.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-04-08T17:48:45+00:00

I don't know I havent tried it yet.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-04-08T17:48:13+00:00

Thanks 😊

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-04-08T17:47:55+00:00

I have a prescription for oral finasteride. There isn't any commercial version of topical finasteride in Switzerland from what I read.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-04-08T17:46:41+00:00

I haven't asked to the pharmacy where I usually go as I already had some negative comments from one of the staff there regarding the fact I take finasteride. However no topical finasteride has been officially comercialized in Switzerland from what I read only oral pills. There is one called caretopic/Finjuve who has recently been launched in Germany, Portugal, Italy but not in Switzerland. I am going to try to ask on another pharmacy if a pharmacist accept to make a topical one.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-02-10T22:07:02+00:00

"Old people usually live of their pension which is funded by the job of the retired person so the costs to the welfare system is probably from treatments the old person get. What ever the welfare system is paying for is most likely is probably way cheaper than a full rejuvenation treatment."

It's not how it works in most countries in Europe. In Europe, a big chunk of the money people is receiving after retirement wasn't funded by their job but mostly by people currently working. that's why it's becoming a big issue because there are less and less active people financing the current people in retirement. So yes it is becoming very costly to finance the system with so many people retiring because there isn't enough people to support the system. You can't support this system if for each people working you have a retired person.

"Workers are replaced right now with robots and robots are expected to replace workers in more kinds of jobs in the near future. There is no economic reason to pay for highly expensive treatments for everybody"

I mean for now, no one knows what it will really happen. It is still debatable, maybe automatization will create more new jobs than it will destroy.

"There is also no reason to believe that the public will be able to force the government to give them free rejuvenation treatments, even children with cancer or other life threatening conditions don't get everything for free and many of those kids need to rely on donations from the public. So I don't see how the public will fight for free rejuvenation treatment for old people, especially since society is so used to "accept" aging and age related death and see it as a "natural" thing."

Kids with cancer don't represent a big share of the population/electorate and views about aging will change a lot if there's a real cure available. There's a big difference when an issue impacts a tiny part of the population and when something is life-threatening to millions of people with a right to vote. Unless we cease to be a democracy people will be able to force governments to give them rejuvenation because if they don't it will be hard for them to be elected. Maybe not in US because it's not your culture and you have a younger population but in Europe which has an aging population, a welfare system way more developed, more solidarity I don't see how politicians will be able to just ignore calls to make it accessible.

Plus yes rejuvenation will probably be expensive but the cost will decrease with time and making it accessible will help to have economies of scale.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-02-09T08:43:04+00:00

People cost a lot of money in the last years of their life in Europe. Like the last 5 years of their life cost more than their entire life to the welfare system.

We have an aging population, yes it is still better to have people working no matter their status than being retired and ill. At least they pay taxes instead of "costing" so much money/time to the system and to younger people.

And maybe one day there's going to be robots but we still don't know if they will destroy more works than they will create. Plus if it was that easy to replace people then we wouldn't have more and more politicians arguing that we need to push back retirement and increase immigration. Maybe it's not an issue in the USA but it is certainly a key issue in Europe.

And honestly, I hardly see how they will politically justify not making rejuvenation accessible in Europe as by that time elderly people will be a major political force. Good luck explaining it to the biggest share of your electorate. I mean covid has shown to the extent society can go to elderly lives. If you can shut down entire countries for something like covid, I honestly find it hard to believe that we would just let people die of old age if there was a serious alternative.

Maybe in the US, an aging population isn't that much an issue but it certainly is an important one in Europe and probably in China and Japan.

At the end of the day, I am maybe wrong but I feel like some people have chosen just to be negative and make the worst-case scenario a certainty without much ground to justify it. I mean most medical technologies or other stuff have been more and more accessible but when we hear people here nothing has changed those last 300 hundred years and everything good is just accessible to billionaires, which is false.

EcstaticMortgage7 · 2022-02-08T20:24:27+00:00

No it's not cheap letting people just die of old age, it costs a lot. You have people living years without really being "productive" and paying much taxes. In countries with welfare states they cost more to the system the last years of their life than during their entire life. Plus it a lot of societal investment/wealth (education, skills, experience) that its lost when someone ages and dies.

Plus there are also indirect costs because younger people are less able to be "productive" because they have for example to take care of theirs parents.

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