If you’ve never received an 11-page letter essentially saying “Leave the country in 30 days,” here is a look at what that reality looks like. After leaving my role at Oticon A/S, I didn’t wait for a miracle. I knew that in the Danish system, “hope” is not a legal status. I canceled my lease, sold my belongings, and prepared for the 16th of February—my deadline to exit the EU. ...
I’ve been holding this in for a while, but I feel a breaking point coming. Looking at my circle of friends and colleagues, I see us splitting into two groups: those who realize the system is broken, and those who are still in survival mode—clinging to a fragile stability, terrified to admit how risky their position is. They hide behind the phrase “well, I’m doing fine for now” while denying the reality shifting around them. ...
After 18 months in the ‘cesspool’ of corporate idiocy, I went hunting for a Lead Microelectronics role in Copenhagen. What I found was a circus of ghost jobs, incompetent HR, and a vanishing technical landscape.