General apology
5 years ago
General
Alright, I will explain what has been happening with me in the last few years.
Italy isn't a good place to be, and hasn't been for a long while now. Its impossible to land a job even with insane credentials and even if you do find employment either it doesn't pay or it pays so little its not even worth it. The only reason young italians don't go insane is because their families can afford living them off, or because they are rich enough to fly somewhere else.
My family could pay for my living expenses, since they own their own house, so they were paying for my food, but nothing more. Any extra I wanted to buy I had to pay for myself.
Last 11 years i've been scrounging for money every way I could, I ran a lot of jobs in several different places, always paid like crap or not paid at all, this includes stuff like feasibility analyst, prototype laboratory tecnician, photogrammetry artist, 3d modeler, and several others. All the while running applications for big factories and other places that could give me some safety but it became clear that without a university degree they were not gonna hire me, with my money set aside I could only afford living abroad looking for a job for 3 months or so, and my family started getting some serious income issues, and stuff started looking grim. Unable to get hired, unable to complete university, and unable to live abroad, would have meant living off my mother till she foreclosed, as commissions alone would never compensate my expenses, then the only alternative left would have been to bite the bullet, I am refusing to struggle only to secure the ability to stay alive solely.
because of that I started accepting several commissions knowing full well I was not able to finish them to the commissioner's desires. Made the prices low to still get people, then worked on them as little as possible so to cash in as soon as possible. Several times I was able to still complete the comm to the commissioner's desire, but several others people got real unsatisfied and rightfully pissed off. This was enough to keep me going for the last couple years.
Now... at 29 years old, so on the edge of employability for a state job, I somehow managed to win a very difficult selection and I am really close to securing a job for a state owned supercorporation. I already got paid enough to afford me a chance to fly abroad if I fail to secure it, so, for now, I no longer need to scrounge for money- and even if I was to keep scrounging, it doesn't really make a difference given how little money that's worth.
So, I am cancelling all commissions I have left, and issuing refunds to people wich work I still didn't complete.
I am real sorry for the trouble I caused you, if you were impacted by this. I am putting an end to this nonsense either way, both if I secure this job, but also if I don't.
Italy isn't a good place to be, and hasn't been for a long while now. Its impossible to land a job even with insane credentials and even if you do find employment either it doesn't pay or it pays so little its not even worth it. The only reason young italians don't go insane is because their families can afford living them off, or because they are rich enough to fly somewhere else.
My family could pay for my living expenses, since they own their own house, so they were paying for my food, but nothing more. Any extra I wanted to buy I had to pay for myself.
Last 11 years i've been scrounging for money every way I could, I ran a lot of jobs in several different places, always paid like crap or not paid at all, this includes stuff like feasibility analyst, prototype laboratory tecnician, photogrammetry artist, 3d modeler, and several others. All the while running applications for big factories and other places that could give me some safety but it became clear that without a university degree they were not gonna hire me, with my money set aside I could only afford living abroad looking for a job for 3 months or so, and my family started getting some serious income issues, and stuff started looking grim. Unable to get hired, unable to complete university, and unable to live abroad, would have meant living off my mother till she foreclosed, as commissions alone would never compensate my expenses, then the only alternative left would have been to bite the bullet, I am refusing to struggle only to secure the ability to stay alive solely.
because of that I started accepting several commissions knowing full well I was not able to finish them to the commissioner's desires. Made the prices low to still get people, then worked on them as little as possible so to cash in as soon as possible. Several times I was able to still complete the comm to the commissioner's desire, but several others people got real unsatisfied and rightfully pissed off. This was enough to keep me going for the last couple years.
Now... at 29 years old, so on the edge of employability for a state job, I somehow managed to win a very difficult selection and I am really close to securing a job for a state owned supercorporation. I already got paid enough to afford me a chance to fly abroad if I fail to secure it, so, for now, I no longer need to scrounge for money- and even if I was to keep scrounging, it doesn't really make a difference given how little money that's worth.
So, I am cancelling all commissions I have left, and issuing refunds to people wich work I still didn't complete.
I am real sorry for the trouble I caused you, if you were impacted by this. I am putting an end to this nonsense either way, both if I secure this job, but also if I don't.
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I hope that this job you have now works out well.
And I wish your family well too. Don't stop fighting for what is yours.