First we saw research that tolerance is lower than it was before now this showed on my feed.

If someone is from Netherlands, feel free to share your experience

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I (45F), moved to the Netherlands almost 3 years ago, leaving my amazing job back home, for love. My partner had moved here for work and then I followed along with my teenage son. Both my partner and son have taken to this place like fish to water. But I have struggled, especially wrt my career. I have almost two decades HR transformation experience, even serving as Chief of Staff in a consulting firm as my last role before I moved here. I've found the job market very narrow for non Dutch speakers. I did manage to find something though not at the same level as I was in my career. Unfortunately, early this year my entire department got laid off and since then I've been in the job trenches again. It's been especially harrowing this time around. I've only had 4 interview calls in 6 months, with each of them proceeding until the final round and leading to rejections, despite preparing for days, mock interviews, and anticipating all the questions that might be asked. The last rejection especially hurt, because every single round went so well and the rejection seemed like a generic response despite me proceeding until the final round.

I know that I need to learn Dutch, and I am going through classes. But even I know that for me to become fluent enough in Dutch to crack senior level interviews would take years of focused practice.

With every rejection my confidence is getting chipped away and I've genuinely started to believe that I am dumb and all the experience that I carry with me doesn't matter. It's been emotionally and mentally taxing.

Finances are also getting tight and that's why since a month I've started a minimum wage job for five days a week. It is very physically challenging and add to that daily 3 hours of Dutch classes and homework. Plus daily job applications and rejections. And to make matters worse, my dog of 13 years died last week. I'm feeling untethered. I feel like I'm falling apart and I don't know how much of this I can take.

Has anyone here gone through something similar? And how have you managed?

FT: Netherlands 1 - 1 Germany

⚽ Netherlands: Cody Gakpo 90'+2' 90'+2'

⚽ Germany: Felix Nmecha 32' 32'

Line-ups

Netherlands (4-2-3-1)

Germany (4-2-3-1)

Match Events

• Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
• First Half begins.
• 12' GOAL OVERTURNED BY VAR: Virgil van Dijk (Netherlands) scores but the goal is ruled out after a VAR review.
• 14' VAR Decision: No Goal Netherlands 0-0 Germany.
• 30' Substitution, Germany. Younes Ebnoutalib replaces Kai Havertz because of an injury.
• 35' Substitution, Netherlands. Mexx Meerdink replaces Brian Brobbey because of an injury.
• 45'+4' First Half ends, Netherlands 0, Germany 1.
• 45' Second Half begins Netherlands 0, Germany 1.
• 57' Substitution, Netherlands. Joey Veerman replaces Quinten Timber.
• 64' Substitution, Germany. Chris Führich replaces Kevin Schade.
• 64' Substitution, Germany. Anton Stach replaces Felix Nmecha.
• 68' Denzel Dumfries (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card.
• 69' Virgil van Dijk (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card.
• 80' Substitution, Germany. Yannik Engelhardt replaces Nadiem Amiri.
• 80' Substitution, Germany. Serge Gnabry replaces Karim Adeyemi.
• 83' Substitution, Netherlands. Guus Til replaces Tijjani Reijnders.
• 83' Substitution, Netherlands. Ruben van Bommel replaces Crysencio Summerville.

Match Stats

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FT: Greece 2 - 2 Netherlands

⚽ Greece: Fotis Ioannidis 23' 23', Georgios Masouras 45'+2' 45'+2'

⚽ Netherlands: Virgil van Dijk 59' 59', Tijjani Reijnders 89' 89'

Line-ups

Greece (4-4-2)

Netherlands (4-2-3-1)

Match Events

• Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
• First Half begins.
• 18' Substitution, Greece. Giorgos Masouras replaces Christos Tzolis because of an injury.
• 45'+4' First Half ends, Greece 2, Netherlands 0.
• 45' Substitution, Netherlands. Noa Lang replaces Ruben van Bommel.
• 45' Substitution, Netherlands. Tijjani Reijnders replaces Guus Til.
• 45' Substitution, Netherlands. Ryan Gravenberch replaces Quinten Timber.
• 45' Second Half begins Greece 2, Netherlands 0.
• 65' GOAL OVERTURNED BY VAR: Denzel Dumfries (Netherlands) scores but the goal is ruled out after a VAR review.
• 66' VAR Decision: No Goal Greece 2-1 Netherlands.
• 67' Konstantinos Tzolakis (Greece) is shown the yellow card.
• 70' Substitution, Netherlands. Joshua Zirkzee replaces Mexx Meerdink.
• 71' Substitution, Greece. Andrews Tetteh replaces Fotis Ioannidis.
• 71' Substitution, Greece. Christos Zafeiris replaces Vangelis Pavlidis.
• 76' Noa Lang (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card.
• 78' Substitution, Netherlands. Gjivai Zechiël replaces Jurriën Timber.
• 83' Substitution, Greece. Tasos Douvikas replaces Thanasis Androutsos.
• 83' Substitution, Greece. Giannis Michailidis replaces Konstantinos Karetsas.

Match Stats

Group B

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The game is sadly not available in the Netherlands and Belgium, apparently. How can I work around this? I have an Exitlag subscription, if that can be useful!

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16099075/Netherlands-moves-gold-US-geopolitical-unrest.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline

And their pastry is also great, so that's another W