Comment on Me this morning
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days agoMy father grew up in (West) Germany, and I studied German as a child (Hallo! Ich bin MnemonicBump und ich komme aus America woher kommst du?, etc, etc), and I really wanted to move to Hamburg when I was a teen. But it turns out that your country doesn’t want an undereducated neurotic American, so alas, I’m stuck here.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, most of the EU prefers their immigrants to have real skills they want, like Medical Doctors, PhD holders, and be on the younger side to provide all the tax revenue they can get.
But they aren’t really in need of low skill workers. And it doesn’t matter where you come from. They got all the neurotic home-grown waiters they need.
architect@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
Don’t you take plenty of low skill workers from other regions?
Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not if Trump has his way.
But migrant workers have always been a thing. Doing the lowest paying jobs with no security or care. Things like hoeing fields or handpicking tomatoes. Are you willing to travel from one job to another doing backbreaking work for little pay?
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Medical Doctors sure, but c’mon. Education level is not indicative of any real life skill
Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Perhaps not. But a PhD is indicative of highly specialized knowledge, like mathematics, engineering, or physics. All knowledge sets that are highly prized by nations around the world.
Waiters need not apply…
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
What is your thing against waiters? Do you believe that they contribute less to society than someone who has a PhD in sociology or some bs?
kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
so which special skills do you have?
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I can play 25 different instruments, record and produce music at a professional level, I can direct photography for a motion pictures, write television news copy, code in 5(ish) different languages, mill lumber from raw timber, gut and fillet SO MANY different types of fish, build structure out of earthen building material, I can wire photovoltaic panels in series or parallel and am familiar with both 13v and 24v system, and I can do pretty much anything to a car that doesn’t require a lift or a hoist.
But are any of those special without the little paper that says you can do them?
architect@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
I own a small manufacturing company but god damn the eu acts like they only want major corpos with awful labor practices or poor people that don’t even speak their language to immigrate.
You’re smug now but those corpos will eat your next 💗