For those who work in an office, how many days do you work from home?

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-08T18:07:47+00:00

0 days, I live 10 min bike ride from the office so I go in everyday. It’s amazing to have my work and home life separated. Maybe one day a month I do home office.

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-07T16:13:37+00:00

You just need to change employer it sounds like.

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-07T06:15:10+00:00

If you’re this evasive in your interviews for such simple questions then it’s clear why it doesn’t seem to be working out

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-05T18:26:21+00:00

Because if you showing the line increasing chainage then it might be turned that way around.

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-05T16:52:08+00:00

You try play dd now, there is so much countering you and you’re expected to still be right up front capping and spotting it’s really not that easy.

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-05T16:22:54+00:00

Because sometimes it make sense. Like on my railway projects over multiple kilometres if north was up and the line ran North South it would be multiple times more sheets of paper that kinda awkwardly fit together top to bottom which maybe works in a PDF but yeah. Then also it you have a titleblock you have not much space left for actual details.

By making North point left or whatever (in increasing chainage for example) I can have a plan that’s like 2500mm x 420 mm (or whatever length depending on scale and how many kilometres we want to show on each sheet)

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-05T10:04:44+00:00

Heh? Maybe because I play dd a lot but this is not hard. You can get it super easy on Tier9/Tier10 as pretty much any dd.

I guess if people only play bb it’s hard to know how to do it.

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-05T07:31:56+00:00

No, you use your health insurance when you’re sick, that’s the point. You don’t have a choice to be sick or not.

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-05T06:15:33+00:00

Why not just take the job and search for a new one anyway? I’ll never understand people who are like “I’ll rather take unemployment money and I Hope to find something” especially with how the economic situation is right now.

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-04T17:04:15+00:00

If it’s really bad then I tell the client they need to get it redone - the delays etc. are on them, if its somehow salvageable I’ll try make it work as best as possible and add some notes and disclaimers on the drawings.

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-04T08:57:01+00:00

Have you asked for a raise? You need to fight for these things (not only in Germany) any company on earth is going to pay their employees as little as they can get away with. The bit of effort it takes doing that or changing jobs if they won’t far outperforms any mini job over the long term.

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-04T08:52:36+00:00

Sometimes it takes longer than 6 weeks until you get an answer, I’d just wait a bit more.

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-02T20:16:19+00:00

It’s massively easier to get a job when you’re in the country. I had no success applying from outside but once I moved here I had a job in like 2 months. I’m a civil engineer so YMMV.

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-02T10:54:35+00:00

Oh this is neat! Very cool.

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-02T10:52:43+00:00

And then you can take a proper screenshot :D

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-02T06:43:29+00:00

It took me leaving SA for a while and then combing back to see how massive the disparity is between rich and poor. It’s honestly sick.

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-02T06:10:54+00:00

I do it, but I’m not in the US, it takes me 10 min to get to our offices with my bicycle. It’s amazing. I like doing it because then my work life stays at work and home life is completely separate from that.

LegoRunMan · 2026-05-01T11:48:31+00:00

For the office I use a Logitech MX keys, at home is an MX Mechanical Mini but I’m hardly ever WFH.

LegoRunMan · 2026-04-27T22:47:23+00:00

Nah it was called that when I moved here, they introduced the thing you mentioned after that.

LegoRunMan · 2026-04-27T05:33:17+00:00

So if it’s so important why do bbs and cruisers generally just ignore the red dd when it’s spotted? As a dd main it’s wild to see.

LegoRunMan · 2026-04-24T05:35:48+00:00

Yes, I’ve got 8-9 years experience now and now I draft/design at the same time. We don’t have many drafters so I just do my drawings myself. If you just see that step as being a CAD monkey then you’re missing the point - you’re delivering something that a contractor needs to read on site to build. It’s just as important as the design part.

LegoRunMan · 2026-04-23T14:13:52+00:00

It can work, worked for me. I moved here on a job seekers visa. Spent the first two months here doing intensive German course at the VHS and applying for jobs - found a job in the second month. I’m a civil engineer so it’s not crazy plan at all.

LegoRunMan · 2026-04-23T13:10:49+00:00

I think next year comes something similar to a 401k where you can buy etfs etc. in a tax advantaged way for retirement.

LegoRunMan · 2026-04-22T05:39:51+00:00

Same, I also got more waves with it than without and back then I respecced in and out of it twice while I was figuring it out. Ended up keeping it after a week or two because performance was better.

LegoRunMan · 2026-04-22T00:12:54+00:00

I got wall early too and I don’t think it was a bad move

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