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Cake day: June 11th, 2024

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  • After coming back from a year of parental leave I didn’t lose my job.

    My previous project came to an end just before I went on parental leave and the company couldn’t secure new projects locally.

    But because I was involved ipartially in a different department before, that department secured a internal budget for me as a Subject Matter Expert.

    Now I’m advising on that topic and was also brought in to a big internal project, so my job is secured for some time now.

    For me it’s extra difficult because I moved to a different country and have a really hard time learning the language, which is a must to get a different job here.


  • I’m born in Poland to Polish parents, but all their parents were born Germans. I moved to Germany when I was 11 and when someone asked me then I said I’m German. But then I moved to Sweden for 15 years, while there I would also say I’m German. I got the Swedish citizenship but you still can hear that I’m not a native Swede, but only Swedish people can hear it. So once I moved to Korea 4 years ago I used my Swedish passport to get in to the country (it was not on purpose but random chance, I could have chosen the polish one or the German one too). Anyway, if someone in Korea asks me where I’m from or what I am I almost always say I’m Swedish. with one exception, if a German here in Korea asks me then I say I’m German.

    I know it’s a bit easier for me because I look like I could be from any of those countries, but my identity is not tied to some specific geographic area so I have no problem being a geographical-identity-cameleon.










  • My stance is that if you make it from scratch then you know exactly what is in it. If you buy premixed then you don’t. Even worse if you buy pre cooked or even frozen after cooking then you’re basically eating like if you’d eat reheated leftovers, half of the flavour which makes it taste good is gone.

    If time is a problem I can live with not having the most of the flavour, but otherwise I totally enjoy the fresh made.