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  • I cleaned out houses before a sale.
    Most of the times I was called, the previous owner had died with no next-of-kin who gave enough of a fuck to do it themselves.

    So every day, I’d be going through all personal belongings of someone who had died recently, and divided it into 2 categories: worth selling, and trash.
    95% of the treasured items the deceased left behind went into the second pile.















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    I’m a sysadmin by trade. My hobbies are:

    • cooking with nothing but a cast iron pan and a knife I forged after a medieval design
    • tinkering on bicycles ('90s MTBs, the golden age of component compatibility)
    • sewing clothes by hand
    • smashing printers with baseball bats



  • Sysadmin for one of the oldest remaining independent local newspapers in Germany.
    I commute to work by bicycle, have a 7 hour work day, and we regularly have foosball tournaments and Nerf gun battles during work hours.
    Other than that, it’s pretty standard sysadmin work, made more interesting by the specialized software we deploy, the extremely high security and resiliency standards, and the special characters who work at a local newspaper in 2024.
    The team and my boss are really chill. It’s low stress, unionized, with really decent pay, flexible schedules, right to work-from-home and 42 days of paid vacation (plus 13 national holidays and unlimited sick days).

    I’ll work this job until the newspaper goes bankrupt, when (not if) the entire sector of print journalism disappears.