I wish for working for myself & my family in the first place, working for my community in the second place & working for society in the third place. I just realized that - could this be the way?
Like, growing my own food & cooking my own meals. Growing food for the community & teaching and socializing your kids with the other kids. & everyone could use their special talent or passion for society.
But working less hours for everyone could be a great start… 🙏🏼
Absolutely!
I used to work full-time, but now I work part-time, and he's been slowly reducing his hours, as our living costs decline.
So we now have more time for volunteering, gardening, cooking, etc.
Just make a spreadsheet and get creative fiddling with the costs. Also, take something like https://www.nettolohn.de/ and try out the effect of more or less income and different tax classes.
Germany runs on volunteer hours. People don't realize how large that is, as a part of the economy.
Not having homemakers is hurting us all.
What do you mean here? How does Germany run on volunteer hours?
A lot of things, like schools, churches, hospitals, playgrounds, food pantries, renter legal advice, etc. use volunteer work or are partially-financed by donations collected by volunteer associations.
So they’re less likely sponsored by state and communes? That’s what I perceive
The quality and infrastucture differences from one school to the next often depends upon volunteering, mostly from parents.
For instance:
Our village elementary school has it's own extensive library, that is regularly expanded. All of the books were donated by the parents and they run the library checkout desk.
All of the teachers have brand-new computers and top-quality overhead projectors and the school has WIFI and a computer lab. All paid for, installed, and maintained by the parents.
One of the parents gives the 4th graders computer classes.
There is a "healthy Brotzeit" initiative, where the local farmers, butchers, supermarket and bakers sell their items to the school at reduced price, and the PTA arranges and serves a buffet once per week.
The parents hold a "clean up the playground" day, twice per year, where they revamp the garden, pick up litter, etc.
The playground has a climbing structure, a wooden amphitheater, a pretty fountain, and stable benches, also all paid for and built by the parents.
The children have regular school trips and group activities and are never charged more than €10/child. The parents association pays the rest.
One of the parents is a farmer and has created a "school garden", where the children grow vegetables and berries. They then can and sell their produce as a fundraiser.
They do the same with self-baked Christmas cookies.
On St. Nikolaus Day, the parents arrange for Nikolaus to visit the school and bring goodie bags and they serve homemade cookies and punch in the aula.
There is an art project with a hired artist and the winning pictures are auctioned off, for a fundraiser. I have one hanging in my living room.
Etc.
There are only about 80 children in the school. There are large schools that have none of this.
Thanks for the tips Leserin 🫂 that’s genius! Not married yet so tax class laughing at me lol
Just imagining my future family :) So I can work for my dream of putting myself first with my part in this world, and then society, while really loving what I do.👀🙈 but that’s not the case yet.
Good to think about where you're going before you get there. 👍🏻
For a while, more income was always better, but now that prices on basic goods and services are rising, the math doesn't really checkout.
For instance, working full-time allowed me to afford a car, but I only needed the car because working full-time wasn't compatible with taking the bus or riding my bike.
Now it takes me 40 minutes longer, door-to-door, but I have an additional 2 hours of free time and I automatically get excersize. That actually increased our net-income because I was being taxed so heavily on those last 15 hours.
Right?
Thats crazy! And that can’t be it. It’s easier to dribble the system than getting honest awards from your work LOL. But I’m happy you managed more freetime including a better net-income!!! 🥳🙌🏼
Yeah, my husband was like,
How can we have more money, when you work less?
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Hahahaha! 😁😁🙌🏼
And then I put the surplus in gold and Bitcoin and he's like OMG 👀
😂
Girl you know how to do it :D have to imagine the „OMG👀“ 😂😂🫂
Man hunted a very smart lady 💪🏼😁
When your dorky wife spends hours every day on social media researching digital currencies and learning new programming languages. 😂
If you research like that no doubt that you know what to invest 😁🙌🏼 impressive that you both are into computer stuff!
I tried learning HTML and well I can’t bring up patience 😅😅:D
HTML is sorta out. Everyone just does markdown, now. 😁
My dad is a network engineer, so it's like the family business.
Your relay is doing well, I've noticed.
I was like, I wanna know where it all begun. :D
And people that are willing to dig into thousands of lines after lines, searching errors, wow. 🙌🏼
The reason why I don’t like coding is that I can’t stare at a code for a long time. I’m more likely a people person!
Thanks! It’s running 😆🥳 let’s see if I can still remember how to backup the notes, it’s been a while.
Btw what’s with theforest relay? Still running? I can’t click it on damus and it’s not shown online nor offline.
And one thing I think that is a little bit annoying about my relay, that it doesn’t show my website on the paid field. Because that field isn’t available in the software 🤔
Maybe that could be something you change about the software. Pull the repo and ask someone to help you dig.
That's what I just did. I pulled a repo to test something and then I asked the developer how to change just one small bit, in a few lines. And then a different bit.
I find that easier than learning how to program something new.
GM ☀️🤗
Absolutely best idea! nostr:npub1fq8vrf63vsrqjrwqgtwlvauqauc0yme6se8g8dqhcpf6tfs3equqntmzut reminded me that he already sent a request. And then he was scrolling through and found a typo! Instead of „payment_url“ it’s „payments_url“ :D :) maybe he will fix it over the weekend 🎉
Or you fix it. 😉
Or fix it together.
The goal is to try downloading the files and navigating through them, using git, etc. It's not about the size of the change.
nostr:npub1fq8vrf63vsrqjrwqgtwlvauqauc0yme6se8g8dqhcpf6tfs3equqntmzut yessss let’s do it together 😍😍 or give me a try 😏
You absolutely right, catching opportunities to learn 😌😌
It takes a lot of the pressure off if you just think of it as "trying to find out more about what he does, so that he can talk to me about it", rather than "I have to do it as well as him, or I'll feel silly".
I really appreciate his knowledge and so does he appreciate mine! 😊🙏🏼 I am always curious to understand what he’s doing.🙏🏼🥰 caught myself a good one 🫂
Same. 🥰
They are both very wisdomous. 😁
💯💯 & The way you talk about your man always makes me smile!! :)😊😍
Thinking about him makes me smile.
Unless he forgot to close the bread box, again. The unforgivable sin, IMO.
Okay, bread dumplings for dinner AGAIN. 🙄
Grrrr the bread box! 🤣🤣 I would be like „die Hühner meiner Oma werden sich freuen“ 😂
😂 oder so
Fischteich
Brotklöse sind aber auch echt gut muss man sagen. Aber zu oft… dann auch nicht! 🫣😁
Unsere Nachbarn bringen uns ihre alten Brote vorbei, meine Oma kocht die dann in einem riesigen uralten Kessel ein bzw. weicht sie die glaub ich nur ein und dann bekommen die Hühner und Enten das immer :)
Sie kocht auch darin Kartoffeln für die Enten und ich find das voll schön. 😊
its working 🥳🎉 was already fixed by nostr:npub1fq8vrf63vsrqjrwqgtwlvauqauc0yme6se8g8dqhcpf6tfs3equqntmzut in November.. just had to update. 😂🤪 (thanks!!)
I just had to merge the changes into main branch and then Franny updated her instance :)
Pull Request was opened on 12. November 😅
Amethyst says you're using it. 🤷♀️
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That 21 circle is my relay.
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Your dad?! That’s amazing!! 🥰🥰👨💻
Yea, HTML is out and nobody used it like the days I learned it.
But I still think it's important if somebody really wants to know how websites work. :)
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