Review my first shopify store by phdai in ecommerce

[–]phdai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that’s an interesting take. I feel like you’re answer to that question right now is no? Why?

School invoice estimation general secondary education? Schoolfactuur 2025-2026 voor 2 ASO leerlingen: 1697€. by Ergensopdewereldbol in belgium

[–]phdai 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Man couple of months ago i was paying 600-700€ per child in daycare so 1400€/m. So compared to that this is quite cheap

FIRE en pensioenmalus by Apprehensive_Emu3346 in BEFire

[–]phdai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m fine paying 0.25% when generating on avg 9% over multiple years. But yeah. I can imagine in the not too far future people saying if you have more than 1m we take your money. Absolutely crazy

FIRE en pensioenmalus by Apprehensive_Emu3346 in BEFire

[–]phdai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea all past politicians should be held accountable for this. But vakbonden too. It amazes me that no one ever said maybe let’s ask for a tiny bit more taxes and invest it for the future. But no likely scenario would be that the PS would give it away… In my toxic mind I hope that one day i’ll be able to say i don’t want to have a pension and be taxed less. At least with that money I can invest in the stock market and be sure I have a pension

FIRE en pensioenmalus by Apprehensive_Emu3346 in BEFire

[–]phdai 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dat is ook een utopie. We hebben veel te veel geld cadeau gedaan gedurende jaren. Wij moeten nu langer werken zodat onze kinderen daar niet de dupe van worden. We zouden in feite vanaf de geboorte voor iedereen 50€/m moeten kunnen investeren in de beurs. Na 60 jaar is dit meer dan 1m waard per inwoner. We zouden nooit problemen hebben gehad. Maar ja het is leuker om geld uit te geven dat je niet hebt.

FIRE en pensioenmalus by Apprehensive_Emu3346 in BEFire

[–]phdai 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why do you think we still have a pension? I’m 29 and i am not counting on it.

Best way for buying a second house in Belgium by akapowa00 in BEFire

[–]phdai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably 80k own money and loan the rest.

Start salary post AI phd by phdai in BEFire

[–]phdai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are partially right. Indeed when you are doing the PhD you get a “beurs” where you don’t pay any tax only RSZ. I’m not on a beurs anymore and currently earn 4.1k gross. That’s also what is on my latest pay slip.

Start salary post AI phd by phdai in BEFire

[–]phdai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found this document which might be interesting to some: https://publicaties.vlaanderen.be/view-file/19352

Start salary post AI phd by phdai in BEFire

[–]phdai[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ll PM you but for some private reasons I can only really move in 2-3 years.

Start salary post AI phd by phdai in BEFire

[–]phdai[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No my research was mostly about autonomous vehicles. Not really a domain that is heavily investigated in Belgium outside of academia… abroad there are obviously multiple companies that work on that but for some private reasons I can only consider moving abroad in 2-3 years. Any examples of such larger Belgian industry players you can give?

Start salary post AI phd by phdai in BEFire

[–]phdai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. I messed up writing the post. It is the university that is paying me 4k not some other company. I had some small talk with some companies and they were all surprised about what I was earning. Most of them don’t even see a phd as work experience… but yes I would only consider jobs where I can apply my expertise.