For the times that I'm here Thread

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It's been quite a while since I've Iast posted something, mainly because I've been busy with all kinds of stuff.So I decided to make a thread in which I can just post all of those long stories, that I know you all love haha... Let me start with an update, on most things... Workwise:So far everything is going great, we recently offically founded our new company (the one I basically "developped") and all seems to be going according to plan.We've already got a good bond with two of our new companies, and I can truly see this becoming a succes. Seeing as I've practically raised this new company it sort of feels like my "child"   My uncle also offered me the chance to start working 5 days (instead of 4) with an increased paycheck, so that's pretty awesome as well.  Furthermore, that military selection process I've been going through for the past half year is going great as well. I actually had one of my dreams come true last wednesday, when I basically had one of my last selection tests. For this test I had to navigate and do some voice marshalling in a helicopter, we did two 40minute flights in an Alouette 3 helicopter, and it was just incredible, I had a large grin on my face throughout most of the flight The test was quite (very) tough, but it went pretty well! I did make a few mistakes, but I was able to "fix" them myself without any further trouble. Right now all I can do is wait, and see whether they'll let me pass (I'm expecting a call next week). What's really a relief for me right now, is the fact that should I not pass, at least I'll have a great alternative (unlike last year when it felt like my life depended on it)   So that's all going great, as for the rest of me right now:Like I said, I've been quite busy lately, work/ learning for that test aaaand going out (way too often).Last year I only went out every two weeks or so, or even less; over the past few weeks I've been going out 2-3 times a week A while back I decided to go out on a (girl)friend's brithday, and got home at 3:30am, even though I had to get up at 5am, and I had already gone out twice that week... but oh well, I've been having a blast which is all that matters. I'm not going out tomorrow night though... (which has "nothing" to do with the fact that I'll be going to a festival tomorrow...  ) But yeah, almost everything is going great! [edit, for meh story]How have you all been?

Answer 1

I had my medical and physical test today... passed it!   (long version in spoiler tag)The medical evaluation consisted of 6 parts:
-Allergy test
They tested whether or not I was allergic to certain things (such as pollen), luckilly I wasn't.
They would put a drop of a certain substance on your skin, then ***** through the skin with a needle so that the substance could enter your body and then you'd have to wait for a reaction.
Some were talking about it being quite an annoying/ painfull test, but for some reason I didn't feel anything haha
-Hearing test
Just a simple hearing test where you had to click a button if you heard a beep.
I was a bit afraid of this one seeing as I once had quite a painfull hearring "accident" when a music teacher forgot he had his speakers turned up all the way whilst displaying a beeping noise (ironically) caused by hearring damage to prevent us from listening to loud music...
luckilly though I scored really well on that test, about 1.5 to 2 times better than the min. requirement.
(they also tested my eardrums using airpressure)
-Blood/ urine test
Self explainatory, passed it.
-Eyesight tests
Pretty much everything you can test, again, had great results.
During one of the tests (field of view) you had to focus on one little light, whilst other very small lights were projected arround it, and you were tested whether or not you could see them; out of 240 light that were shown I only made one mistake (probably just blinked hahah). 
There was however one test that tested your visions field of depth, and for some reason it didn't work for me, they tested it in a different way on me after that and it turned out everything was okay (luckilly).
-Lung test/ heart test 
They tested the volume of my lungs and made a "film" of my heart, everything was great and above min. requirements
Then there was the physical part, which consisted out of three segments:
-Bicycle test
We had to first peddle going 80 rpm for two minutes, then we had to sprint as fast as possible to 120 rpm after which you had to get back to 80, then we had to speed up to 140 and back to 100 and last but not least you had to fuly sprint (at arround 5 minutes) and keep sprinting for  30seconds. 
I could've done better at this part, seeing as I couldn't keep my speed leveled whilst sprinting at the end. The thing is I mainly jog/ run, I don't really ride my bike that often... but still it wasn't that bad.
-Strength test
We were tested on our leg strength, and the strength form our abs and back.
During the leg strength test you had to push away this plate infront of you with as much force as possible, which went really really well the second time I did it, I was way over the required strength
The abs and back part basically consisted of being squished in between to plates, and then having to push those plates away from you with as much force as possible; which went quite well as well.
And there was also a small jump test, couldn't go wrong basically.
-Running test
We were placed on a threadmill with a mask covering our face which regulated/ held track of both the O2 input and CO2 output etc, and we had to run for as long as we could (up to a certain point).
The threadmill would increase in speed by 0.5km / hour every minute, untill it reached its max of arround 15km/ hour.
On average you had to run for about 8-12 minutes, and I ran 12,5 minutes, so I was really happy with that.
All in all a positive result for the physical part, the lesser performance on the bike test was compensated for by my results on the other tests.Right now I'll just have to wait for a little while again.I've basically passed everything and they're now gonna select the best candidates to fill up the open positions. Luckilly from what I know, there aren't that many who passed the tests, and there are actually quite a few open spots  It feels weird having started out with a group of 40 men, and now being the only one who's left (/ made it through every test). There are a few more candidates, but they came from a different group.