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hello dahlings...as some might know already I am looking for a new job right now...(starting preferrably in February)..in the Netherlands (Maastricht would be the best). Anyhow since I work in higher education and most of the jobs are filled internally at universities, if any of you happen to work in any higher ed institution I would appreciate a pm. I know I know...this is not a job site so forgive me for relying on the knowledge of my fellow goffs:)

oh and brussels might work as well

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Maastricht! Great choice! :D
Good luck!

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I work in Sittard for the government ('bout 30 k up north from Maastricht) myself and have built a good network of contacts through the years at the so called Centre for Work and Income. In case you won't find your way/start, feel free to PM and maybe I can provide you with some phonenumbers or ask some people if they can be of help.
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Ozpat wrote:Maastricht! Great choice! :D
Good luck!
well I am working in Maastricht right now so would love to stay...and thanks I will need it
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sziamiau wrote:
Ozpat wrote:Maastricht! Great choice! :D
Good luck!
well I am working in Maastricht right now so would love to stay...and thanks I will need it
I edited my post so just let me know. :wink:
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oh thanks! :notworthy:
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I live in Assen, have a s**t job and a degree in History. Please God somebody help me.
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I live in Assen, have a s**t job and a degree in History. Please God somebody help me.
Perhaps you could go back to University and get a degree in something useful to society this time?
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nodubmanshouts wrote:
I live in Assen, have a s**t job and a degree in History. Please God somebody help me.
Perhaps you could go back to University and get a degree in something useful to society this time?
:lol: :lol:
Then again, sweety, what education would you consider to be 'useful' to society? Hm?

Think about it.

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nodubmanshouts wrote:
I live in Assen, have a s**t job and a degree in History. Please God somebody help me.
Perhaps you could go back to University and get a degree in something useful to society this time?
All knowledge is useful.
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markfiend wrote:
nodubmanshouts wrote:
I live in Assen, have a s**t job and a degree in History. Please God somebody help me.
Perhaps you could go back to University and get a degree in something useful to society this time?
All knowledge is useful.
So true but not all knowledge is paid...
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Then again, sweety, what education would you consider to be 'useful' to society? Hm?
Oh, there's lots and lots of degrees which would be useful. Here's a few starters- computing, multimedia, law, medicine, civil engineering, or teaching.
All knowledge is useful.
Not necessarily useful to society though.
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a knowledge of what has and hasn't worked for society in the past is bloody essential, in my book
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I give a little more weight to knowledge that is useful to keep the planet alive personally -- hardly ever useful to human society the way most people see it, but very useful to human society in the long run.

A History education, I fear, also falls under those terms. Darn right we'll need it, just not right now please. Economy rules. Where is the money. And all that.

Edit: this said --- anyone that knows of a job vacancy in a higher education institution for sziamiau?
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ummm... the history of economics would be a useful thing
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Useful, yes. As in: a beer glass is useful, but only if you have beer to put in it.
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ALL knowledge is based on and builds on what has gone before and already been learned. history is embedded in everything.
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ALL knowledge is based on and builds on what has gone before and already been learned.
So where did the first bit of knowledge come from then?
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nodubmanshouts wrote:
ALL knowledge is based on and builds on what has gone before and already been learned.
So where did the first bit of knowledge come from then?
'Ouch that f***ing hurt, i'll not touch that again!' :wink:
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nodubmanshouts wrote:
ALL knowledge is based on and builds on what has gone before and already been learned.
So where did the first bit of knowledge come from then?
What kind of reasoning is that now, pumpkin?

What happened prior to the big bang?

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What kind of reasoning is that now, pumpkin?
Ah well, per Big Si's rather rib-tickling comment, the first bit of knowledge didn't come from other knowledge, but rather via an experience. So therefore the assertion that all knowledge comes from other knowledge is not really true! Eureka moments happen!
What happened prior to the big bang?
That's a good'un. My two favorite answers to this are

(a) there was no time before the big bang, so the question has no meaning.

(b) Since all our physical laws are based on cause-and-effect, then either the big bang didn't happen, or cause-and-effect is wrong. Which means physics is in BIG trouble.
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nodubmanshouts wrote:(b) Since all our physical laws are based on cause-and-effect, then either the big bang didn't happen, or cause-and-effect is wrong. Which means physics is in BIG trouble.
It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and confirm it without doubt.

"physics is in BIG trouble" only at the classical level. (But that's been known for about 100 years. History don't you know.)

On the quantum level, cause-and-effect breaks down in quite an unintuitive, even alarming way. Nothing in particular causes any individual atom of carbon-14 to undergo beta decay (for example) but we still know that half of any given sample will decay in 5730 ± 40 years. Effects without causes.

The big bang didn't exactly "happen" anyway, it's just a useful shorthand for the hypothesised boundary condition of the four-dimensional manifold that is (or appears to be) our universe. We can actually see the background glow from the decoupling event at approx T+379kY
wikipedia wrote:Two of the greatest successes of the big bang theory are its prediction of its almost perfect black body spectrum and its detailed prediction of the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background.
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