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Why are you so angry bro, can’t we just talk without the anger.

I clearly stated that Manchester has incredible public transport, sure the train prices could be improved as they’re some of the most expensive in Europe, but it isn’t a case of poor infrastructure. It’s just the nature of having to take multiple modes of transport to get to work. Do you want us to build train stations in every shitty little town? What are the implications of that undertaking for the very few people that have a commute like mine.

Imma say if you live in the US then you’re in no position to lecture me about our infrastructure.

As for the job. No there wasn’t a more suitable job for me. I’m a new software developer and I had 60+ interviews with many companies in Manchester and several in London and none of them would hire me, due to the unorthodox method I entered the trade.

Also, no I will not relocate away from my family to spend three days in the office.

You have unrealistic expectations on someone who is vastly in the minority with commutes like this.

Do you shop on Amazon? As I don’t, I don’t support businesses like that. What’s the carbon footprint I’m saving here.

Do you purchase from fast food places like McDonalds? Because I don’t. I don’t support businesses like.

In fact I rarely buy new things and if I do I am supporting my local businesses, even if it means I am paying more.

Do you consume alcohol and all the carbon footprint that that entails? As I don’t.

I’m a simple guy. I drive to work and i rarely leave my home town outside of that. I walk everywhere, 3.6 million steps a year, and on weekends I walk around the woods and just chill out. My commute leaves me driving 12k miles a year and that’s my largest carbon footprint. I don’t go on airplanes, I don’t take taxis as I can go anywhere in Britain on train, heck I can go across Europe on train.

I live in Manchester. Which is an amazing city for public transport. I work in Cheshire which isn’t.

As I said. To take the train. I must walk from my town 20 minutes to the Metrolink, then take that 35-40 minutes into Manchester, then take the train 45 minutes to Cheshire, and then finally walk another 20 minutes to the office. That’s without counting any waiting periods in between. VS 75 minute drive.

We haven’t even factored in it rains 70% of days here. Or even the cost.

You can moan at my boss for not allowing fully WFH. But my point was some people can’t just commute everywhere. Perhaps when I’m more experienced I can find a job closer to home or more remote, but for now this is all I can do.

Edit: I have nothing to rebut to people online. I was merely giving an example. Get off your high horse mate.

Although I agree that using cars on pointless journeys is a waste and not good for the planet, but using public transport isn’t always an option.

If I’m travelling 6 miles in to town then I’m taking the tram, but it really isn’t feasible when travelling 40 miles to work and back 3 times a week. Sure there are trains, but I would have to get up an hour earlier, set off an hour earlier, wait 50 minutes for the train home, and get home two hours later. As I would also have to take the tram 40 minutes to the train station and walk 20 mins before that.

I have a car that I use for work. Outside of that I’m walking or taking public transport.

Nah just a regular dude trying to help others when I can.

There’s plenty of services like this that people use a firestick to connect too.

My friend uses one but I forget the name of it. You can find them online but people usually buy a package of say 20 connections and then sell them to friends and family. I’ll try and remember what to search for and come back.

Edit: IPTV is a good search term.

Thanks.

I guess I need to learn German now.

Why don’t you share it here, I for one would be interesting in checking it out.

I’ve been to a lot of gyms and people are always happy to help each other. People love talking about their hobbies and gym folk be no different.

Thanks

Thanks.

I can attest to working for smaller companies.

I also write software, but not for a technophobic company. We are consultants, I guess. We write applications for clients then move on to the next one. Often clients will pay again for extra work on existing projects so we get lots of variety and clients are loyal to us.

We too have a great level of autonomy, they trust us to do the job and we work hard because we like coding and the environment is nice and they have made my concessions for me when I’ve had issues outside of work.

This is counter to almost anywhere else I’ve worked. This is my first software developer role, but any customer service roles I did before, like 40 jobs, all wanted me to work as hard as humanly possible whilst paying me as little as legally possible. Like call centres would try and tell me I can have 9 minutes of personal breaks (toilet, drink, etc) a day. Naturally I would do what I wanted and tell them like it or fire me cause I ain’t bowing to you.

I also want to shout out Apple UK as an awesome place to work, I worked shop floor as a Christmas temp for three months and as a natural introvert who has had a colourful past I am very good at being an extrovert for periods and so excelled at customer service, like it would make me happy just being nice to customers, giving demos to the kids and talking to the kids as though they were adults, as if the product is for them then I’m talking like they’re the main person rather than most would talk to the parent.

Anyway got promoted to the Genius Bar and worked there for three years and loved it, sure it’s hard work at times and some people are fucking assholes, but on the whole it was amazing. Surrounded by very talented people from all backgrounds with all kinds of hobbies. The support from the management was extremely good, the benefits were awesome, the healthcare got me my ADHD diagnosis and literally turned my life around and it’s thanks to that and the support there that I’m not doing my dream job, admittedly for less money than I was on at Apple at the moment.

Finally, I am not absent of the fact that Apple employees or sub-contracted employees in the east are treated a whole lot worse and I actually had these conversations with managers at my store. As I did about green shirts for Earth day being counter to the message, since they had to manage shipping these around the world. And they’re not having pride flags in places where they really should be trying to change things like Saudi and Russia stores.

Which generation would you recommend? As used.