I remember "about celebrating the Worker,". We also had those in Romania as well.
Can't say it did us much good on long term analysis.
The good work life that was implemented to me as a child was : school, scholl, scholl so you can have a chance to leave the country as someone who makes money (meaning not a millionaire of course, but enough to pay the bills, even barely surviving in another country, as long as it was decent work) , otherwose, no scholl meant (as a girl) you'll become a P...ti...tute. so those were the options for me at least, while growing up: learn and stay on the streets.
Thank you, Daniela. I guess you are from a somewhat younger generation. Before 1989 in Bulgaria, few people had the illusion that they could move abroad, no matter how hard they studied. Yet, in the early 1990s, according to different sources, roughly 300 000 people left the country, mainly for Canada and Australia. Europeans were not exactly welcoming to us back then (and, for that matter, even now). The 1990s were very turbulent years, and I guess escaping the country and pr.......ion were somewhat extreme forms of the improvisation I am talking about.
Interesting that mainly us, Eastern Europeans feel very strongly to share our version of the world of work :-)
We've had it as it came. No illusion somewhat of a good life, of "you may say and do whatever you want, we'll love you nonetheless ".
Indeed, i was born just before our 1989 revolution. Romanians also migrated to canada or us in the early 90s. In 2000s most of them went to spain, italy, germany and UK, . Nowadays, we move wherever the work takes us. :)
"You may say and do whatever you want, we'll love you nonetheless "...or ..."we just want you to be happy" :-) ...no way, our parent had not have that kind of mentality :-)
That lines is a banger: Although communism was, in theory, all about celebrating the Worker, in practice no one would encourage their child to become one
Loved this piece, close to my heart (or my own experience?).
I don’t recall the saying about the study, but having university degree (”good education”) was a sign of success and it was expected in our family. No regrets here.
Thanks for reading. I think good education is still an asset in many ways, but there are many young people with multiple degrees who can't find a jobs. I guess we lost the balance a bit by pushing people that only UNI degrees matter.
Thanks for reading. Paradoxicaly the new technologies will be threatening exactly those kind of “office jobs”…as someone rightly said something like: we are preparing children for the jobs avaliable now, not for jobs that will be avaliable in 15 years time.
I absolutely love this, no notes
I remember "about celebrating the Worker,". We also had those in Romania as well.
Can't say it did us much good on long term analysis.
The good work life that was implemented to me as a child was : school, scholl, scholl so you can have a chance to leave the country as someone who makes money (meaning not a millionaire of course, but enough to pay the bills, even barely surviving in another country, as long as it was decent work) , otherwose, no scholl meant (as a girl) you'll become a P...ti...tute. so those were the options for me at least, while growing up: learn and stay on the streets.
That's the work life :)
https://danieladurbaca.substack.com/p/may-day-as-a-native-and-as-a-foreigner
Thank you, Daniela. I guess you are from a somewhat younger generation. Before 1989 in Bulgaria, few people had the illusion that they could move abroad, no matter how hard they studied. Yet, in the early 1990s, according to different sources, roughly 300 000 people left the country, mainly for Canada and Australia. Europeans were not exactly welcoming to us back then (and, for that matter, even now). The 1990s were very turbulent years, and I guess escaping the country and pr.......ion were somewhat extreme forms of the improvisation I am talking about.
Interesting that mainly us, Eastern Europeans feel very strongly to share our version of the world of work :-)
We've had it as it came. No illusion somewhat of a good life, of "you may say and do whatever you want, we'll love you nonetheless ".
Indeed, i was born just before our 1989 revolution. Romanians also migrated to canada or us in the early 90s. In 2000s most of them went to spain, italy, germany and UK, . Nowadays, we move wherever the work takes us. :)
Perfect!
"You may say and do whatever you want, we'll love you nonetheless "...or ..."we just want you to be happy" :-) ...no way, our parent had not have that kind of mentality :-)
That lines is a banger: Although communism was, in theory, all about celebrating the Worker, in practice no one would encourage their child to become one
Thanks for reading. As said table-talk is not just a small talk, it should say something ;-)
Loved this piece, close to my heart (or my own experience?).
I don’t recall the saying about the study, but having university degree (”good education”) was a sign of success and it was expected in our family. No regrets here.
Thanks for reading. I think good education is still an asset in many ways, but there are many young people with multiple degrees who can't find a jobs. I guess we lost the balance a bit by pushing people that only UNI degrees matter.
Brilliant piece, Lilia! My grandparents used to say to me "study so you don’t have to work".
Thanks for reading. Paradoxicaly the new technologies will be threatening exactly those kind of “office jobs”…as someone rightly said something like: we are preparing children for the jobs avaliable now, not for jobs that will be avaliable in 15 years time.
They were saying the same thing when I was a teenager in the early 1990s, and they were correct then