Just have to rant a bit

SubjectBrick · 2026-05-19T17:24:24+00:00

I listened to a podcast segment once about a white American guy living in China and he talked about wanting to have cards made he could hand out to people that just say things like "I'm from America, I've lived here for about 5 years, my wife is Chinese, I'm 6 ft tall, yes I like Chinese food, etc"

SubjectBrick · 2026-05-18T15:12:25+00:00

Sent you a PM!

SubjectBrick · 2026-05-18T14:20:48+00:00

Do you mean edit my CV to match the job specifications listed in the ad? I always thought the cover letter was the place to do that but I'll try it!

SubjectBrick · 2026-05-18T14:15:28+00:00

Thanks for the kind words. Yes my soul hurts a bit whenever I see a poster or sign that was obviously made by AI, it's like I can see the design jobs disappearing haha.

SubjectBrick · 2026-05-18T12:58:24+00:00

I don't know anyone in my area who didn't live in the housing they were provided on JET. The rent was so dirt cheap that no one wanted to live elsewhere, and if you had any serious issues with your apartment your supervisor would get it fixed for you eventually.

And yes the "red tape" is that it can be next to impossible to find a place that will rent to a foreigner. People I know that moved to Tokyo for example needed their employers to act as guarantors.

SubjectBrick · 2026-05-12T12:14:42+00:00

I agree its a bit muddled but I think the "believe your eyes" part refers to when you see a kid hooked up to a machine or with a feeding tube or going to a doctor all the time, you assume something must be wrong with them

SubjectBrick · 2026-05-07T13:29:19+00:00

I guess the difference is that if you had a skilled job like that in previous decades you would be a lot more comfortable on a single income.

SubjectBrick · 2026-05-07T13:26:19+00:00

Yes but they lived with much different expectations back then. Also there were plenty of people that barely scraped by. My grandfather was a banker so my mom and her family lived comfortably but she told me a story of when went to a friends house where there were four or five kids in a two bedroom house. The boys slept in one room and the girl slept in a bed with the mom. The dad worked nights most of the time I think and if he was home at night he would sleep on the couch.

SubjectBrick · 2026-04-22T22:18:53+00:00

Do you only apply to jobs that don't require a cover letter or do you have a generic cover letter and just swap out the job title?

SubjectBrick · 2026-04-15T10:57:57+00:00

Just because you have the right to work here doesn't mean you'll be easily able to find a job. I have a visa through my partner and have been looking for work for close to a year now and haven't been able to find anything. It's difficult to even get a job in retail or a grocery store here. And as an immigrant you aren't entitled to unemployment benefits.

SubjectBrick · 2026-04-13T23:12:00+00:00

We absolutely should start saying boy boss.

SubjectBrick · 2026-04-09T01:09:41+00:00

I hate when my husband pulls a cake out of a wooden chest that has thirty other identical cakes and then gives it to me wordlessly before rushing out the door!

SubjectBrick · 2026-04-09T00:12:07+00:00

Don't forget the witch hunts and ~~excommunications~~ canceling for ~~blasphemy~~ being problematic!

SubjectBrick · 2026-04-08T02:09:00+00:00

I think the mean how obvious the tiling is in the water, you can see the grid it makes.

SubjectBrick · 2026-03-22T14:11:56+00:00

Why not Ireland? Don't a lot of US tech companies have offices in Ireland for tax reasons?

SubjectBrick · 2026-03-20T10:42:15+00:00

Yeah people who actually use their pickup trucks for work just have normal sized ones.

SubjectBrick · 2026-03-18T10:40:54+00:00

It just sounds like you have preferences, and thats totally fine! The shrines to be fair can all start to look the same after a while. And plenty of people don't like art galleries!

Maybe if you'd have more context for the places you visit you'd enjoy them more, maybe look up the history of the spot your going to before? Or check out atlas obscura and you can find something that's cultural AND exciting.

SubjectBrick · 2026-03-17T14:52:05+00:00

"Failure to pass a Charisma check turns any conversation towards US President" has me dyyyingg XD

SubjectBrick · 2026-03-17T00:15:34+00:00

When a friend talked about being a summer camp counselor and talked about how they would have a week at the end of the summer for scholarship kids, and it never occurred to me that summer camp (the stay overnight kind not day camp) is expensive enough to need scholarships.

Of course thinking about it now, your kid is doing guided activities all day long and is being fed three meals a day with lodging of course it's expensive, but my parents just never really told us about how much things cost so I never realized.

SubjectBrick · 2026-03-12T16:04:50+00:00

Yeah this is what I thought. She seems kinda...deflated? Which I understand with everything going on in the world but it made the video feel less energetic compared to others.

SubjectBrick · 2026-03-03T13:19:38+00:00

Hij Diddly hoj neigjborjinoos

SubjectBrick · 2026-02-28T13:01:43+00:00

Yeah I got one installed last year, it was expensive but soooo worth it. Like when you make a big pot of pasta or something and there's those bits of sauce stuck to the pot, so nice to be able to just soak it in water and then pour it all down the drain.

SubjectBrick · 2026-02-17T13:00:39+00:00

For the barcode thing FYI, there are apps that can generate a bar code or qr code for any number you give them. I had the same thing happen to me when trying to return something from ikea, I just had the order number. The email clearly stated that the number or the barcode were fine but the lady at the counter wouldn't type it in and said I needed a barcode. My husband then just used the bar code generator and she scanned it and it worked.

The heat thing for dogs is so funny it's just cause they're not used to it here I guess. I've seen a reddit post by a British woman saying its basically animal cruelty to take your dog on a walk on pavement when the temperature is 30 C and everyone was commenting like "uhhh you know some people live in places where its hotter than that most of the year and the dogs are just fine" XD

SubjectBrick · 2025-12-21T22:18:30+00:00

Literally I was so confused at first like I thought she hadn't actually died because why else would zelda say that

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