mrleiter

I love this community. I have been on here years and it became one of the very few forums where I decided to finally stop lurking and make an account. It is extremely well moderatet, the discussion are on an amazing level. Topics are fantastic.

To all of you: thank you so much and a very merry christmas! I hope you are doing fine.

From my short 1 month experiene working in a clinical ward: if young people got brought in due to a psychosis, in the case that it was drug induced, at least 50% were long term cannabis users (followed by alcohol abuse, then some psychoactive drugs, and heroin/crack).

Cannabis definitely is not the vanilla drug so many people make it out to be.

*EDIT: I get the selection bias now, sorry.

As far as my experience goes, you cannot really take retroactive actions into account. It's extremely bothersome for the parties involved, and they usually choose to fight it out over all instances, since untangling a business by force, as you can guess, is detrimental to everything you are doing. Usually the parties know about such risks and price it in (two ways: you register the acquisition and risk it being denied, or you skip the registration and hope that the authorities won't start an action by themselves).

I stuck with law right now, talked to a lot of people. I do work that leaves me enough free time so as to satisfy my other interests, learn more about it, and if after like maybe 1 year I feel confident enough to switch, I'll do it. Right now I'm content with that situation. How about you?

Disclaimer: worked for the Austrian cartel prosecutor:

Such (as in: requiring regulatory approval in general, as I cannot legally speak to this deal specifically) takeover deals are structured with a suspensive condition, pending regulatory approval. Until that condition is met, it remains pending and without effect.

Accouncement based company.

Thanks for that! I wrote you an email.

I agree with you. Yet I am not romanticizing a profession. The areas in which I have expertise in simply do not make me happy. I am happy, though, when I do something with maths or biology. So studying and working with it probably makes me happier than I am now. For me it's more about what I like/love doing, not a certain profession itself.

But thanks for pointing that out! And also for your advice.

Thanks for sharing your experience :)

Luckily enough I do not have any debt and school/university here is almost free.

I wouldn't say they are generally incompetent, it's a complex structure with many different interests being balanced out, and more often times than not it's unfair. Sometimes LE gets crippled by certain inefficiencies, intentionally and unintentionally. But in essence, law is not a creative or very productive space, it's more about safeguarding and balancing out interests.

Yes, society sometimes tells you certain things, which really aren't that great for your personal health.

Yeah, some people here advised against doing a PhD, I will keep it in mind :)

Are you happy that you did?

True perspective, never thought of that!

If you don't mind me asking: what did you do before and what do you do now?

I more and more get the same feeling, thanks for telling that story!

Thanks :)

In all fairness, this is my first post that I self-plug on Hacker News. If you have any questions or comments or feedback, I am more than happy to hear them. Thanks!

That is absolutely correct!

That is untrue. German civil law grants monetary compensation to a person whose personal rights have been unlawfully infringed upon (immaterial damages, §253 BGB).

No, this fine would go to the state. But if the fine holds up in the courts, employees stand a good chance to bring civil damages, in a separate claim.