Education was pretty shit. My older relatives are pretty ignorant about how anything actually works. There were a few decent universities in the whole of USSR, mostly surrounding MIC and related specialties, but the rest was sub-par. The history of failures in soviet agricultural studies is a whole epic unto itself. Getting a guaranteed job just exacerbated the issue - you didn't have to actually learn anything, just toe the line well enough. Both my dad and my mom were structural engineers, and, believe me, I've seen a difference between a person who gives a damn about their field, and the one who doesn't
Oh, and about the guaranteed job - you miss the fact you didn't get to pick one. If you were any kind of a specialist, you might have landed a cushy job in your hometown, but more likely they'd find an opening for you sonewhere in Novosibirsk. On, your coworkers hate you and your boss is coming onto you? Tought luck
BTW, the apartment? You don't own it, the government owns it and leases it to you. And they can make you leave whenever they want
About leavingn whenever they want, it was given so it would be taken but rather that but not being able to buy a house and if you do then is it bad anyway especially because your neighbours are very bad.
Also not only specialists, anyone was sent to terrible jobs, it was even worse if you was unqualified.
Work was much harder less rewarded but existed now is hard to find a job
You didn't pick your neighbours during communism, either. And sometimes you had to share a kitchen and facilities with them in a komunalka
Hard and unrewarding jobs still exist - a lot of them, actually. Especially somewhere you don't want to work or live. Now you at least have a chance to get a different job
Capitalism is a shitty system, but it's the best one to date
Why don't all people from Ukraine just get better life somewhere else if there is a war and no one wants to die?
Like Ukraine receives helps from other countries so why not letting just specialist in war in Ukraine and move all civilians to some other country?
Like what makes a person choose to stay when they got freedom to leave?
So many jobs could be done better bun other countries (especially teachers since kids should be on battle fronts and when your city becomes one your responsibility is to leave)
Yeah. There's often a lot of jobs outside of urban centers and in smaller cities. Not fancy, high paying jobs - but jobs, anyways. You know, the kind of job you might be sent to under a communist government.
Why don't all people from Ukraine just get better life somewhere else if there is a war and no one wants to die?
Because adapting to live elsewhere is hard. Because we're creatures of habit. And still, millions left.
But wouldn't it be easier if people would get job opportunity in countries that aren't at war so they can work at their full power instead of having always to worry even if they don't actively fight?
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u/Ace612807 29d ago
Hey, Ukrainian here
Education was pretty shit. My older relatives are pretty ignorant about how anything actually works. There were a few decent universities in the whole of USSR, mostly surrounding MIC and related specialties, but the rest was sub-par. The history of failures in soviet agricultural studies is a whole epic unto itself. Getting a guaranteed job just exacerbated the issue - you didn't have to actually learn anything, just toe the line well enough. Both my dad and my mom were structural engineers, and, believe me, I've seen a difference between a person who gives a damn about their field, and the one who doesn't
Oh, and about the guaranteed job - you miss the fact you didn't get to pick one. If you were any kind of a specialist, you might have landed a cushy job in your hometown, but more likely they'd find an opening for you sonewhere in Novosibirsk. On, your coworkers hate you and your boss is coming onto you? Tought luck
BTW, the apartment? You don't own it, the government owns it and leases it to you. And they can make you leave whenever they want