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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
May I not-so-humbly suggest that you get your derriere in gear and start looking for another position, now, BEFORE you need it? You don't have to accept a new job, just look for one and interview, saying that you are exploring opportunities...
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I know ... It's just such a difficult situation right now. I work partime (4 days), but this will end in september 2015 if I stay with my current employer. I really need the extra day off, the combination of school and fulltime work is just too hard. But if I look for a parttime job, it'll probably be parttime 'forever'. And I want to work fulltime again when we start paying off our loan, because we definitely could use the money.
So I'm still undecided. It's also not easy to find a job as a researcher that has a social dimension. I don't want to conduct research so it makes companies richer. It want to do something that really matters.
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Originally Posted by dreams
As to the toilet, I would also say keep the toilet. We were a family of 5 with 1 toilet upstairs and 1 downstairs and it was a major disaster trying to get everyone ready for work and school in the mornings. Plus, it seemed like someone was always in the bathroom when you needed it, not to mention when company was over.
Keep redesigning the plans to see if you can have that "awesome kitchen" and the toilet. I think you will really be glad if you can make it work.
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Originally Posted by cromag
Sorry to hear about your work situation, Iridal.
As far as the home situation is concerned, I suspect taste is highly personal, as my wife is constantly telling me. I grew up in a family of eight -- with one bathroom. I could easily go back to a black and white TV, I could go back to waiting for the vacuum tubes (valves) in the radio to "warm up," I could go back to hanging wash outdoors to dry -- but I really wouldn't want to go back to waiting for that one bathroom!
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Last night we decided, quite independent of each other, that we would keep the toilet downstairs
We just figured it would be too much of a hassle to have just the one toilet upstairs (what if one of us breaks a leg?). But we don't want it underneath the stairs. We're going to do it as is drawn in this plan:
https://plus.google.com/photos/10292...CKuEmqe0wfOdWw
We'll ask to make the toilet a bit smaller. Right now it's 2,1 meters long, which is huge! A normal toilet is about 1,4m long. We think they drew it like this so the door to the toilet won't be too close to the front door, but we don't care
We'd rather have some collisions between the two doors and bigger kitchen
This is probably our definite plan. We're really happy with the first floor and the attic, and the kitchen is alright too if they agree to re-size the toilet. Not as much working space as in the plan without the toilet, but I guess you have to make compromises every now and then
In this plan the island is 2,4m long, and on the other side we have another 4,1m. So it really is a pretty good kitchen, with lots of storage space and room for my three ovens!
Cappuccino is all gone, time to get to work
(Oh, and thanks to everyone for the advice on the toilet
I really appreciate it!)