• neo@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    I’m confused. Were you happy because the job sucked or because you were laid off before Covid?

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      7 months ago

      My job was totally fine, byt my partner had been laid off right before me. I was happy to be able to spend a bunch of time with them—I didn’t even know about COVID yet. Then a couple months later, everything shut down. I didn’t work for years. It was incredible.

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          7 months ago

          I’m guessing they were well off if they were able to not work for years.

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              7 months ago

              I’m not sure of many countries where the average person can take years off of work in a row and be fine financially. Do you know of any countries like this?

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        I am assuming that you had enough saved up in the bank hence you were happy about the impromptu 2 years vacation with severance granted to you?

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          Absolutely! Got a buttload of severance, then my country started paying heaps of COVID jobless bonus money for like a year and a half. It worked out perfectly (though I did feel terrible for taking advantage of that while some of my closest friends had to go into work and stuff)