Belgian 29 year old male, accountant, into physical fitness, outings and watching TV series/films. Enjoy pestering you about your political views and interested in economics.

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Cake day: March 10th, 2025

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  • I would suggest starting your own business and invoicing those 5 SMEs. That does not seem like a fun work structure to me. I’d forego the 7h36 min work day then.

    Especially if you aren’t even using that company’s building. Those costs they make do nothing for you. You should invoice as an external party, invoice your building costs to them as well. As they now have a spot open for another employee at their building.

    My job is just being an accountant at a Belgian hospital. My boss doesn’t even want me to do any overtime unless it’s “necessary”.

    I prefer being at the office, accountancy here has a labour shortage. Main reason is boredom. I won’t be able to keep the new juniors on board if I don’t entertain them. The department’s main problem is people leaving after a couple of months.

    When others left, work stacked up. New people feel overwhelmed. They leave. Cycle continues.

    i need to be good at accountancy, but more importantly I need to be good with people in order to advance my position within the department.

    A potential leadership role in the future won’t happen if I sit at home every day.



  • Yeah I rode via the main road once as a test ride, no thanks. A bus, followed by a truck, followed by a farm tractor on a part without bike lane.

    Like a third of my bike lane of 8,8 miles is dirt/gravel road but it’s fine. It being more difficult doesn’t matter when it’s without cars.

    Also, not to be an asshole but I get to keep my tax money 🙈 big daddy government so kind to me. My end of year bonus’ personal income tax, employee and employer social contribution are spent on my e-bike. Took one of 10k USD because it costs me only… nothing. If I went with car then i would receive 1000 USD less over the span of 3 years.

    On top of that, the car would cost like 4k dollars a year on loss of resale value, taxes, maintenance and gas.

    Ah, I almost feel guilty.






  • Depends on the person I guess. I’m bored as fuck working from home. The only positive about it was that I didn’t have to commute. I’d stop working after 4 hours basically. Get less done. It’s not for me.

    At work the kitchen is nearby. Everyone is on the same floor. 5 departments on one floor. Can just go over there when I need them instead of waiting on some email that take days to be replied to.

    Working with people younger than me, they need support. A lot easier to do on site. I don’t even communicate to the coworkers not working at the office. To me it’s as if they are taking a day off.

    If their work is done, they get more work. If it’s not done then they have that work to do when at the office.

    Pretty sure there’s a lot of fraud. Because I frauded.








  • I just quit my work from home days, I like where I work. The area is well invested so it’s a higher quality than just my own pc space at home.

    Being there indeed has me more focused on working. It’s like when you try to leave an addiction behind, then you need to change your environment. Well, the opposite works as well. If you need to work a lot, then do it always in the same environment.

    The ability to work with my co workers is a lot easier at office. Otherwise it would just be phone calls or emails. When a coworker is working from home, I honestly don’t interact with that person the whole work day.

    Commuting to work is fun. I just bike 14 km to work. Mostly car free. Get paid 10 euros per day for biking. If I worked 5 days a week from home then I’d be giving 50 euros up just like that. Which is basically the difference between my pay level as accountant and adjunct accountant.

    It would be silly.