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Moving!

Amedee

A few months ago I wrote about my preferred region to work. Well, that’s no longer true. The co-housing project where I live (in Merelbeke, near Ghent) is going to end, and I need to move by the end of July 2022. This also has an influence on my preferred place to work. I have decided to find a...

How I organize my message flow

Amedee

Email I use 2 email clients at the same time: Thunderbird and Gmail. Thunderbird: runs on my local system, it’s very fast, it shows me all the metadata of an email in the way I want, the email list is not paged, I can use it for high volume actions on email. These happen on my local system,...

What are my preferred roles?

Amedee

Definitely a halfling barbarian. Alignment: chaotic neutral. Oh, you didn’t mean tabletop role playing but job roles? Riiiight… I don’t think that this blog post will ever be complete, and it will always be evolving. But at this point, some of the things that I see myself doing:...

What is my preferred region?

Amedee

When recruiters contact me, I invariably get asked in what region I am willing to work. Well. It depends.(scroll down for a map if you don’t want to read). The thing is, I actually enjoy going from point A to point B. At the same time, if it is in much less than ideal situations (lots of...

Working abroad?

Amedee

Occasionally (about 4% of people contacting me) I get a job offer for somewhere in another country. This is a list of places outside of Belgium where people are apparently interested in having me. India (Hyderabad)Germany (Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden)United Kindom (London)France...

Thanks, but no thanks

Amedee

After reading a few hundred emails from recruiters, I see a couple of trends popping up. I’m being contacted for job offers that really aren’t relevant or interesting for me. Some of them may be attributed to automatic keyword scanning. But still. If possible, I would kindly ask everyone not to...

So, how is the jobhunt going?

Amedee

It’s been a long time since I last looked for a job myself. At job[-1] (7 years) and job[-2] (2 years), the employers contacted me while I was already working somewhere else, and at job[-3] I worked for 5 years, so all added up, that makes more than 14 years since I last did anything like this....