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| JohanH:
That's so nice. Congratulations! |
| Brumby:
Congratulations! News such as this is always uplifting. :-+ |
| RJSV:
TOOKI: Many congratulations ! I had wished to ask about details, how you were getting through that period of time, but re-reading your intro helped define that, as to what income source (to rely on), uncovers a while fundamental difference, with the U.S. disability. Here it seems you just get a 'stipend' for living, and no real presence of re-training programs. Maybe that's changed in 39 years, I don't know. In the U.S. they (Disability office) would very likely send you off into depression treatment land, an appalling 'system' centered around the medications. Sorry to be cynical about SSDI here, but first off specialist wasn't, em er, uh, wasn't shall we say 'truth-full', in his report. Have me the impression that system wasn't necessarilly geared towards the client's needs. |
| tooki:
Well, let’s just say that I have a number of, um, choice words I could say about the Swiss disability office, as well as specifically about the case worker I had been assigned, who did things that actively and maliciously aggravated my anxiety. As I wrote in the first post, it took getting a lawyer involved to get them to actually do what the law said they were supposed to do. As soon as the lawyer got involved, things finally moved in the right direction. (What’s perplexing is that doing this resulted in exactly the outcome they want, too: to get someone back on their feet, rather than have them end up on permanent disability or welfare. I wonder how many welfare recipients are in that situation precisely because the disability office reneged on its duties, ultimately costing the taxpayer more in the long run.) |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: nctnico on September 24, 2023, 01:13:04 am ---I had a similar job at a research institute a long time ago. Lots of interesting stuff to work on for sure! Maybe working at CERN is next at some point >:D --- End quote --- Heh, my former supervisor at the physics department is actually designing PCBs for CERN, for the next-generation CMS detector in the LHC. (I actually did some soldering on a few early prototype boards, which are very large flex PCBs that route power and signals to the actual sensor boards and to the media converters that will convert the copper to fiber optic cables, due to both the staggering data rates involved as well as the need to minimize the amount of metal within the CMS as much as possible.) |
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