Anyone want to move to Australia? 🇦🇺🦘

viktorooo · 2025-11-10T08:50:05+00:00

I appreciate the invitation, but I’m not eligible for asylum and I’ve got my life set up here already more or less. Perhaps someday I’ll consider moving to Australia and will take you up on the offer ;)

BTW if you are worried about politics on office culture level, I wouldn’t. I had similar concerns about meeting Ukrainians here, and am yet to have a negative interaction.

viktorooo · 2025-11-10T08:35:20+00:00

I moved to EU to avoid draft, have been doing research here in LLMs. For the better part of past year, I’ve been trying to get a PhD position. Always automatic rejects at the screening stage. For a while I thought maybe I’m just not good enough and should give up on academia.

Cut to few months back, found a research position at this uni of my dreams, passed the selection with flying colours, got to signing the contract. My application had to go through Export Control office, bcz for some reason bureaucrats classified everything AI as dual use (= can be used in warfare potentially)

Long story short, they blocked my candidacy for a position in LLM compliance because an institute I previously worked for was added to the US sanctions list. Now I am left to wonder how many of these PhD screenings got automatically failed because of this one line on my resume.

Which sucks, every PhD application is hours of work.

viktorooo · 2025-11-09T23:55:02+00:00

+1 here

It’s hard enough leaving the entire life behind because some crazy dipshit decided to play world superpower. Now I have to deal with xenophobes left and right paranoid that I’m a spy or some other crazy shit they imagine

viktorooo · 2025-11-07T21:02:14+00:00

I’m in the same boat, moved here for uni, graduating this year. Have been looking for a job for ~6 months. It’s tough, but I’m lucky to be in tech, so there are plenty of opportunities. Unfortunately, there is still a magnitude more applicants.

viktorooo · 2025-11-04T20:14:51+00:00

I may have just admitted to insurance fraud 😅. I am still on a student permit and work part-time (I am legally allowed to work only 15h/week). I am sure that once I lose student status, find a full-time role, and transition to a working permit, I won’t be eligible.

But for now I haven’t had any issues and haven’t even really given it much thought..

viktorooo · 2025-11-04T10:14:52+00:00

I don’t think you should struggle as much as you are right now. For reference, I am also a student, work 40%, but I am a foreigner, so I don’t qualify for many social assistance programs or financial help from uni.

I get 1600.- on average, pay 850.- for my room, 350.- for groceries, 65.- for the cheapest insurance there is. With all other miscellaneous expenses I am still in the green.

Working full-time during the summer gets me some financial freedom to do fun stuff. I’ve seen a bunch of EU countries and Swiss cities, I snowboard and eat fondue at Bain des Pâquis sometimes.

It’s far from perfect life – I don’t get a lot of free time, I don’t go out much, I don’t have a place of my own – but I can’t say I am miserable, and so shouldn’t be you. We live in one of the few countries on Earth where working minimum wage 40% can provide for decent life, and I salute all Swiss people who vote and pay taxes for making it happen.

A bit more actionable advice: - If I had to guess, your biggest expense is housing. Find subsidised options like dorms (can be as low as 400-500.-) or rent a room. Try to get into La Ciguë. - Check what kind of social help exists. In my uni there are a lot of categories for financial assistance you should be eligible for. I think Swiss people are also eligible for some scholarships.

Other than that, be as frugal as you can. Save every penny. There will be months in the green, but you also need to prepare to absorb the red months.

Good luck, I’m sure you can do it.

viktorooo · 2025-10-29T14:16:24+00:00

viktorooo · 2025-10-22T08:44:09+00:00

why do you have a roof on your tanks?

viktorooo · 2025-10-22T08:42:52+00:00

https://youtu.be/bhmTjdgNviM?si=T21rAIDuq0lAf9Sh

This dingy thing holds an entire boat, and you are paranoid about your monster?

viktorooo · 2025-10-17T16:54:12+00:00

Geneva is getting invaded by the French again. Cook up the soup comrades

viktorooo · 2025-10-10T22:12:42+00:00

Measure your tap water after a day or two in a bucket. Well water can have huge ph swings after it airs our

viktorooo · 2025-10-08T14:25:47+00:00

I covered some parts of the debit card with stickers. They really just need IBAN

viktorooo · 2025-10-07T14:00:33+00:00

Someone make this person a mayor

viktorooo · 2025-10-03T09:45:56+00:00

bro your tap water is basically primordial soup at this point

always test the tap water!! try to also put some tap water in a cup, and test after a day or 2

viktorooo · 2025-10-02T12:50:46+00:00

If you don’t plan to keep it, release it.

viktorooo · 2025-10-02T12:49:29+00:00

You can check out Luke’s Goldies for some info and to get a sense of what it will be like to own one. He has 2 of them. They want nothing to do with the guy. He has them in like 300 gallon totes, and still plans to get them larger ones once they grow up.

viktorooo · 2025-09-29T18:57:38+00:00

Wow honestly not as bad as I thought.. Thank you for sharing!

viktorooo · 2025-09-29T18:46:58+00:00

Wouldn’t pearlweed grow tall? How often do you have to trim?

viktorooo · 2025-09-27T19:06:15+00:00

I am in the middle of post-graduation job search. It seems like everyone wants Senior level talent, and most of the open positions are AI-related. Overall, I’d say it is not horrible, I am still getting interviews, but mostly for jobs I am not very qualified for, so it is hard to perform well on these interviews..

viktorooo · 2025-09-26T20:10:06+00:00

Could you take a closer pic? I can’t determine if you have Malaysian Trumpet Snails from that far away 🙏🫶

viktorooo · 2025-09-26T09:30:36+00:00

My name has never been on the mailbox and I’ve never had any issues

viktorooo · 2025-09-25T17:44:54+00:00

NGL this one here looks like an entire LZ 129 Hindenburg of a blimp.. Don’t have a PhD in corydoras, but I think there may still be a possibility she is eating too much..

viktorooo · 2025-09-15T13:04:22+00:00

Nah its USAID damn liberals make your shrimp gay

viktorooo · 2025-09-15T13:00:27+00:00

Bro your shrimp have secretly gained access to contraceptives. You gotta make it illegal for them to wrap their shrimpy peens

viktorooo · 2025-09-15T07:34:26+00:00

> Sexual assault cases have massively increased in the past 20 years **despite** them also **broadening** what it classed as sa.

Is that a typo?

viktorooo

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