Category: Adventurer
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I Can’t Talk About It Yet
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Ninety Seven] But I will soon. There are still some things going on here in Leander house that are up in the air and unresolved and have been this way for OVER A MONTH NOW but I still can’t talk about it. Because it’s still not my story to…
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How Do I Feel?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Ninety Five] Tell me now, how do I feel? Papa gave me, effectively, an entire morning off today and hooo BOY was it LUX! But first the news: Ministers ‘more optimistic’ about relaxing coronavirus rules on April 28: NOS Eight Dutch travelers quarantined on Greek island Rhodes during holiday…
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Binaries Are For Computers
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Ninety Two] That’s it. That’s the whole post. Oke, well, maybe not the WHOLE post – I realize I’ve been short sometimes – REALLY short – but I promise my distractedness is coming to an end soon and I’ll be able to focus again soon. Be able to post…
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A Company Wants to Hire You But
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Ninety One] They don’t have a tax entity in the Netherlands. What do you do? The short version is that every single company that extended an offer doesn’t have a tax entity in the Netherlands, so I’m doing a LOT of research on my options / their options for…
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This Is Staycation #LeanderStyle
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Eighty Nine] All day today in Groningen, Netherlands, it hails and then the sun comes out and then it hails and then the sun comes out and then it hails. Super surreal. Kind of like how I am enjoying the next three weeks of staycation. I code and then…
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Call Guinness?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Eighty Seven] Over the past four weeks I applied to thirty opportunities – twenty-one companies spoke with me sixty-seven times and six extended offers. How? Besides luck? Good question. But first the news: Family is not tourism: campaigners ask Dutch government to allow non-EU family visits Health Minister tamps…
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I Don’t Think Anyone Noticed, Though
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Eighty Five] That feeling when you realize, forty five minutes into the one hour interview, that you forgot to put on your interview scarf and are only wearing your workout clothes. I don’t think I noticeably winced too much? Thankfully they’re your plain black on black workout shirts and…
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Have You Heard of Second Holiday Days?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Eighty One] It’s a perfectly normal thing here, but it’s NOT an American thing, so you can imagine my surprise EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. when it happens for Easter and Ascension day and White Sunday and Christmas. What else happens on Mondays? Trash day. Therefore every time it’s a holiday…
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I Still Bought A Towel
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Eighty] I re-counted after posting yesterday and realized it was actually 17 / 16 / 11 which is forty four. Not forty two. Ah, well. But first the news: Dutch stop giving AstraZeneca vaccine to under-60s pending review Woman dies of lung embolism after AstraZeneca vaccine People who had…
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Forty Two!
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Seventy Nine] This week’s interview total is eleven bringing the grand total over the past three weeks up to forty two interviews. Considering I took two entire days off of interviewing, I’m rather impressed with this week’s numbers. Also, I’m super tired. But first the news: Coronavirus cases may…
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Wait, Is This Vacation?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Seventy Six] I’m taking today and tomorrow FULLY OFF of interviews and holy heckin’ it’s been a chillax day. Mostly. But first the news: Coronavirus cases increase by 13%, biggest rise in over-70s Covid-19 vaccines given to 11.7% of Netherlands adults Coronavirus vaccination fails to meet Dutch government’s targets…