The Great Resignation, found the silver lining to the planedemic

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   Castlepalomaposted 2 years ago

   The Great Resignation, or the Great awakening
   
   Think I found the silver lining to the planedemic. The is a very important message to all, since most of your waking hours in life
   is working.
   
   I lost my sculpture industry to the covid world order. Yet found something more important for myself, family and for humanity. Tiny house ,(like sculptures) community and urban farming. If an artist can do it, most people can too
   
   https://youtu.be/pOphIpddRAk

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      lovetherainposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I am sorry for your loss of your creative outlet. It is good though that you have found other things that make life worthwhile.
      
      The thing Ive learned most from the plandemic is that I take many things for granted as a first worlder. The ability to get what I want when I want it mostly. arrogance. selfishness. wastefulness and using resources unwisely and selfishly.

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         Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Think your being too hard on yourself.
         
         I'm no better or worst than anyone else.
         Everyone does something better than me and vice versa.

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            lovetherainposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            I am determined to improve as much as possible in the second half of my life since I wasted the first. Possibly a midlife crises type of thing I suppose.
            
            That includes constant self analysis so I can pinpoint my flaws to work on.

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               Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               Great!!! love and work is the key.
               
               Don't regret your pass, only regret what you don't do in the future.

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                  Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                  Can not imagine a more important topic in everyone life than working most hours of one's life.
                  
                  Not many takers on a a subject that take up the centre of a persons life greater than anything.
                  
                  No wonder the owner of the world, own you.

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      CHRIS57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Castle, what you have been doing switching from one craft to another is certainly admirable.
      
      But it will not be applicable to all.
      For example your tiny house business in Germany would require a lot of red tape to overcome. You would have to prove that you can build tiny houses that meet insulation standards and that don´t break when moved on the road. In other words you have to prove your qualification (personally and as a business) to do what you want to do.
      
      For outsiders this red tape in G. may be anoying, but as G. is still a country that makes stuff on a highly competitive level this red tape does make some sense. You may have noticed from your video link that G. has a shortage of skilled workforce. Now this shortage already existed long before Covid19. And it is attributed to the high skill barriers to enter this job market (between 2 to 4 years of vocational training).
      
      Elon Musk is building a Tesla car manufacturing plant in G. He thought he could easily hire qualified workers and management from VW, BMW, Porsche, Mercedes... the whole country is full of car makers. Well, didn´t happen, all car makers are short on personel and pay high wages, much higher than US contracts would allow.
      
      Conclusion: Low payed, low qualification jobs were the first to suffer from the pandemic. For qualified workforce little has changed from before the pandemic.
      
      Of course there is nothing planned about Covid19. It is only that some people are much more protected from the economic and social fallout of Covid19. I admit that artists are definitely on the loosing side of the pandemic.

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         Castlepalomaposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         The arts and culture of artist and entertainers. Has been the most influential tool known in the history of mankind. Longer than politicains, kings and religion. So it's as vital or moreso important in existence.  Than who are the wealthy ignorance negative people commanding world order.
         
         I use to pay for my apartment within 2 hours of work as a bricklayer. Today its costs a third or half your money , And then the Government takes a third or half your money. It why the new Aquarius age change of human events are in the process. People find it impossible for a life for themselves under the rules of working salvery. I'm lucky to know this all along, it's why my intuitive is the extreme logic that prepares for what is coming and easy for me to predict what is going to happen.
         
         Many of the youth are on to it, and happy to say it will change the extreme wealthy centrolatizion owners of us, for independent stronger individuals sharing wealth and health making more happiness. Too many People right now are very negative about their lives and they know they deserve much better.
         
         It's certainly not mainstream who are changing our lives positively by lowing their own life expectancy than adverage.
         And 3th most cause of death of medical error
         
         It's not the pharmaceutical as the most sued corporation in the world and 4th greatest cause of death in the world. Nor our saviour.
         
         It's not the Bankers or Government who are our saviour as they are the greatest scammers of all. They are being replaced by true free trade and crypto currency and people governing themselves.

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   Nathanvilleposted 2 years ago

   It’s Nothing New:
   
   Decades ago, when I left school and started work ‘staff turnover’ in jobs in the UK at that time was 10% e.g. in a small office of a dozen staff someone would leave and be replaced virtually every month. 
   
   And even before the pandemic (a report published in 2018) shows that in the UK for every 30 midwives trained and recruited, 29 would leave the profession. 
   
   And the same with Bristol buses, in the 1990s we had a chronic shortage of bus drivers until the vacancies were filled by polish workers.
   
   I also note, further down in this forum you state that “everyone work’s most hours of their life”.  I think I know what picture you’re trying to paint, and if so I would largely agree with you.  However, for correctness, most people do NOT work most hour of their working life; most working people work something like 8 hours a day, five days a week; and in the UK get six weeks paid leave each year, plus public holidays (which is similar to Europe). 
   
   And in Europe and the UK there’s a lot of emphases put on ‘Work/Life Balance’, which is why under British Law every worker has a legal right to request ‘flexible working’ (including home working) from their employer.  And below is how two British employers have responded to this law:-
   
   Creating a flexible working culture (Good Work/Life Balance) at John Lewis Partnership and Ford UK:  https://youtu.be/2Qs0EL6JWD0

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