Hello, once again this month, I have another pile of thoughts. The first of them is an aspect of why young people are discouraged from working in smaller towns in Poland. Recently I was looking for a job, unemployment in Poland is only 2.7% according to Eurostat, but young people like me are often looking for a job during the holidays while studying, just to have something of their own, and I submitted 30 CVs, only one man replied, he wanted to drive Melex vehicles and transport people for tourists. Guess how much he offered. PLN 120 = less than USD 30 for 8 hours of work per day, where the above-mentioned PLN 120 is what I would burn in at best 3 days, commuting 40 km to this job, driving very economically. But never mind, the biggest problem of this type, to put it this way for an exploiter, is that it is inconsistent with the law, the minimum hourly wage for a contractual mandate is PLN 27.70 gross per hour, PLN 15 per hour, and almost PLN 30 is a slight difference. Unfortunately, I had to refuse and in exchange for PLN 100, I mowed an elderly lady's lawn in a neighboring village. The second issue is that I've been having a crisis lately in that I can't decide whether I'm a fan or a friend of my friend who makes music because on the one hand I treat him as a friend, on the other hand I bought his first album and when he played a concert for the first time it was 230 km away. I was going one way. It's a funny thing, but it's true, I got so involved that I wonder if it's more of a friendship or just being a loyal fan.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Kudos to your resourcefulness. You found another option instead of letting yourself get exploited by the lowballer.
Have you ever considered that you are perhaps both a fan and a friend at the same time? If you don’t like his music, I doubt you will make the effort to travel so far, unless he is a really good friend. You being a friend most likely gives you the motivation to support all his music-related endeavours
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Actually, you can say that I thought about this third option, but the fear of losing friendships if I were to get higher is a bit scary. I would call it a bit of a phobia, unfortunately, although I like listening to his music, I don't mean that I don't.
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