turn off the light! or The Earth hour Global Movement March 28, 2008
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As an AIESECer, driven by the AIESEC values and my way of being, i believe that changing the world is possible. We can take action in different ways for this, and i am writing this e-mail to inform you about a way of helping our planet with a minimum effort.
Did you ever think that you would like to make things better, but you thought you “are just one person”?
Have you heard about the “turn of the light!” event?
This is the moment when each of us can make a difference. On 29th of March, at 8pm, people around the world turn off all electricity consumers for 1 hour. Can we make this city the most “switched off” one?
Take a look at this video to understand how much this means for our planet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxu3MluKl8A&NR=1
For more details about this initiative, you can check the official site here:
www.earthhour.org (have patience it takes a while to load)
Job market motto:”please come home” March 19, 2008
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i read an article about an ingenious idea: a Romanian job market organized in Italy for Romanians that work there. They had 700 curious people and almost 7000 jobs. All of them in constructions.
i think this is great strategy…let’s see how it works…
but how about schools? these guys will get old, and i don’t remember hearing of “constructions high school” or something similar. is the ministry going to re-”build” these schools? and…also “re-brand” them?
in Switzerland almost 90% of the young people go to a “profession school” because they consider it takes too long to pursue an university and is too much theory…
on the other hand i guess Ph.D.s are most of the time pursued just to follow your passion or to get a salary in no matter what field…delaying the moment when you will have to “face it” and actually get a job…
so is the future going to bring us only 10-12 years of school? could it be that our kids will study gymnasium and than a “profession school”, gaining practical experience from 14 years old and than study an “online university” while being an employee? or maybe the employer, desperate for workforce, might offer them courses in exchange for a “10 years” contract?
i think the way things are in Romania right now contradict a lot with the spirit Generation Y has, and many changes have to happen in education and companies’ attitudes. and i bet these changes will be huge in 5 years from now…
i reached 15… March 18, 2008
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15 projects as a freelancer…i had bad clients and great clients…i had horrible moments and wonderful moments…i had 2 full months of excitement…i made many hours of underpaid work but also easy money…overall i feel wonderful..and today i have my first “Repeat client” – yuhhuuuuu!! it is such a great moment of satisfaction:)
PS: all these last 3 messages are actually referring to what i have been through the last 2 months…but i have no idea if i can change the date of publishing them or not…so …whatever, let them be all on 18th March 
enjoying life and not giving a damn March 18, 2008
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and it feels so good:)
many things happened and i was so busy and exhausted…since 10 Jan i slept only 3-4 hours per night and i worked 2 jobs…but who cares when one is as a freelancer:)…i had extremely lazy weekends to compensate…i sent 20 job applications (and sending a job application in Switzerland is a huge challenge)…i had about 4 interviews…i refused a Ph.D. position…i eat the best ice-cream in Italy and i traveled through people each fortnight…i was happy to say “i have enough money and i don’t care for more”…i was so fucking stressed that i made my dear ones worry…i got fat…i cooked the strangest food ever…i negotiated salaries…i studied for my masters less than ever…i dared for the first time in the last 10 years to buy shoes with heals higher than 3cm…i stretched my knee for the 3 time in the last 8 years…i fell in love everyday and missed my fiance every night… i started to make the guest list for my wedding…and managed to detach from the feeling my stupid clients awoke in me…i am becoming a business woman…2 full months…very tiring and exciting…10 more to go until the deadline for my goals:)…i fell in love with Bucharest once again after i thought i will hate it forever, especially after living in such a great city like Zurich is…now i am back at home in Valcea and i am enjoying my work&study holiday:)) …is nice being home and receiving greetings on 8th of March…you don’t get these anywhere else than in Romania…and there are so much many more things you don’t get elsewhere than here…semplicemente tiamo…and it’s so great not giving a damn about anything…if i find a job..ok…if not…ok…if i get fat…ok…if not…ok…if i leave Zurich..ok..if not…ok…the most important thing will happen…end of June or end of October…after more than 2 years, i will finally live together with the love of my life…and nothing else matters…well…except my travel plans…
to be or not to be in Switzerland March 18, 2008
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this is my present question…
Since i wrote last time, it’s been really long…since then, i moved in a new flat (a real adventure…2 trips with the smart of a friend:)) and i am living alone now…really cool after all…i live 30 meters away from the Red district…the place where the…sex life of this city happens…i guess…the only place:)) people here are…workaholic. all they do is: droll for a nice job in a bank, stay a while, and than in spring take the bonus and go for a better job…most probably, in another bank…
Anyways…about me…i can’t extend the contract where i work now..so i was looking for a job for a while, but all the offers i got were assistant, administrative assistant, project assistant…well…and it seems the reason is that i am coming from the Eastern Europe. so these recruitment experts around here don’t care about my academic background or work experience, they just offer me the lowest jobs in the trophic chain ever…and with contracts that would tie me up for like …2 years. These guys have a lot of nerve…they really don’t realize that we, the Easter Europeans, the slaves of Europe, can CHOOSE where to be slaves…i can get a job wherever in EU…why would i be so mad to want to stay in Switzerland when they don’t want me and offer me to “give the badges to the new employees, and make the introduction round in the company with them”. This sounds nice…but not for 9h per day!!! For Chris’ sake, i have a bachelor, now i am working on a master thesis, …i know better than wearing a nice skirt and heels, smiling and giving badges to the newbies!
Well…i feel better now…
Ok…to get a constructive conclusion out of this: the ones that want a job in Switzerland, be aware that you are just a second hand CV for the unexperienced recruiters around here…i mean, i asked him more questions than he asked me…he was making me a job offer and he was asking me if i am familiar with MS Office…the jerk didn’t even read that i have a bachelor in computer science!
It seems Switzerland is not the country for my dream life, so the plan is, if i don’t (by a miracle) get a nice challenging job that i would enjoy doing, i will just go to Italy for a 3 months break, write the book i am so anxious about writing, and sun bath in the beautiful Genova, with my darling beside me…and then we will decide together, in September, where to go…any ideas?:)
