Well yeah but that’s the thing; knowing what you should be doing riiiiiigh before the concrete dries on you last mistake xD

And getting « the hand » for everything. Like applying plaster; from my first wall to my last it tell quite the story. And that’s if there’s no shit luck like « ho what’s this sus beam embedded in the wall doing and how do si deal with it no that I have a very large opening to do for this news door frame ».

No really fuck all that anxiety. Even with the all Internet cheering ;-)

That sounds like a nice situation. Broad market, customers by the bucket. That’s quite nice! I admire your line of work. I could never to it following my personal attempts to renovate my own home. You must have acquired a whole lotta skills to get where you are .

Yeah true that. Well possibly at least. They do own their skills at least. The rest is possibly rentals :-/

Aren’t you slave to your customers instead of your boss though ? Can you really afford to just close the door and go sunny side of your want to?

Yeah I was going to say… as a millennial it was a bumpy road so far… but I acknowledge that next gens will have it even harder :(

I’m quite aware of the theory and how regulations apply.

From what I see there is no functional difference between Amazon and AliExpress though. Both seem to largely skim QC. It’s also generally self-certified so the whole point is relatively irrelevant.

No one will sue AliExpress or Amazon from a small consumer perspective.

But politics for sure love to toy with China more than USA.

From where I sit it all seems very much posturing.

A tad above middle typically… it’s generally already within executive / leadership realm that the title exists.

Ah yeah good catch.

Fully aligned with the idea but the guy just got taxed 350€ given it’s a female and something. Not cheap to fix cats. And that’s not accounting for the whole « catch them » game; in our area we can get a rental humane trap from the city but they only pick them up once a month or you can drive your price 60km away on your free time. Another tax.. it’s all fucked up just to try to help :(

/venting

They are reliably the exact same products between Amazon and AliExpress… and I have doubts that those flowing through Amazon are under more scrutiny at this stage. There’s typically only a markup and that’s it. Same support mailbox and all even.

GDPR is a bit more than cookies banners… it gives rights to European like deletion of one’s data, right to get a copy of one’s data, portability to some extent and a lot of transparency about what processing is happening. And if one of our DPA is taking an interest in a particular sus processing they can forbid it altogether which all companies fear much more than fines. It’s really a beautiful piece of regulation. And I’m not saying only because I make part of my living out of it :)

Those things are not driven by the same groups of interests. We are not as monolithic as USA.