It's been raining a lot here. The balcony above mine has started leaking onto mine. So now I get to deal with that. The person living in that apartment is a tenant, so I've sent the homeowners an email last night and am waiting to hear back. Don't know how it's going to go down but the tenant was nice so that was good at least. My job is glorified data entry and I'm treated like I don't know shit. Because of that motivation is out the window. Yesterday there was an exhilarating problem where the data I look up and upload was incorrect, it was by far the most exciting thing in this job to happen to me in months (with exception to the assisting writing the abstract). Took my colleagues all of an hour to figure it out and fix it. An old Portuguese friend of mine just moved to Belgrade to be closer to his girlfriend. Her cousin is the head of global human resources at AstraZeneca. He's going to poke and prod for me. We have a video call set up this weekend which should be nice. Beyond that, I've got nothing super exciting to report. Might shoot for a Hubski virtual meetup sometime next week, but that's about it.
I'm doing multiple Pubski-driftings here. Just to keep the current pub top-of-feed. Not much comment on the lower pay portion of yet - but assuming there's the already lower pay elsewhere, would that mean a significant amount less would be unlivable? Regarding healthcare, it would require saving up for the event of less pay... but I recommend reviewing 'travel insurance' as potentially interim health insurance.
Lower pay -- Highly Skilled Migrants over 30: 4840 Euro/month gross pay; under 30: 3549 Euro/month gross pay; Reduced per visa: 2543 Euro/month pay. It's a pretty significant drop and while it makes finding a job easier, it makes affording to live a lot harder. -- https://ind.nl/en/required-amounts-income-requirements As far as healthcare, I'm not sure if travel insurance would work since I'd be moving with a residency visa and not travelling for leisure. I'm sure they would fight it on those grounds. Not sure what other pitfalls may be as I haven't looked into it.
CLEARLY didn't eat my wheaties that morning. That's a simple google-search fact check... Will keep an eye out for something similar none-the-less if you haven't found something already as a possible route to insured healthcare.As far as healthcare, I'm not sure if travel insurance would work since I'd be moving with a residency visa and not travelling for leisure. I'm sure they would fight it on those grounds. Not sure what other pitfalls may be as I haven't looked into it.