So, according to a comment on someone else's f-locked post, the age I'm going to be in 10 years, once we have few or no cats and a smaller principle on our mortgage, that is, 45, is considered "too old" to get a job in Germany, really really.
Fuck my life, fuck me, and fuck that bullshit.
I'm never going to get to move to Berlin if neither Ben (who will ALSO be 45, and a 20-year-experienced software engineer) nor I will be able to get jobs to support ourselves.
I was happy until about 10 minutes ago when I read that comment notification. Now I want to curl up and cry a lot.
Fuck my life, fuck me, and fuck that bullshit.
I'm never going to get to move to Berlin if neither Ben (who will ALSO be 45, and a 20-year-experienced software engineer) nor I will be able to get jobs to support ourselves.
I was happy until about 10 minutes ago when I read that comment notification. Now I want to curl up and cry a lot.
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Date: 2011-03-21 03:31 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2011-03-21 05:10 am (UTC)From:this much right now, don't despair yet, not all is lost ;-)
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Date: 2011-03-21 01:30 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-11-20 08:09 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-11-20 08:23 pm (UTC)From:right now the economy is down and 45 IS a stumbling block on the way to new/other employment. if you're not applying from a current job, that is. for some reason, the german job market is very unforgiving to people who are currently (and no matter for how long!) out of work. it's a lot easier to get another job if you have a current one on your resume.
however, software enginieers, especially experienced ones, are sought after. we recently changed the way our university degrees work and the industry is not responding kindly to the newfangled bachelors of sciences, they want the old school dipl-ing. or lots of experience. so, for your partner the lookout is not so bad.
as for yourself, the good thing about berlin is, it's cosmopolitan and needs people with other languages than german to cater to a variety of customers/demands. your english will most likely be the "selling" point that lands you a job. and the fact that you know german as well ;-) i doubt you'd be able to work as fully accredited pharmacist, not without jumping though lots of hoops to get your degree validated. but i gather from your recent posts you're not set onto that particular carreer path.
hope this is a tiny silver lining ;-)
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Date: 2012-11-20 08:46 pm (UTC)From:I wonder, would freelance translation work count as a current job? (I'm trying to figure out jobs I could do with a PhD in Germanistik that don't involve moving, and academia isn't one of them... I mean, moving to somewhere in the US only to move again a few years later when Berlin happens? No thanks :S Moving sucks.)
Gah I don't know what I want to do with my life. It is a silver lining, though, because Ben's got a master's in computer science and (currently) 12.5 years experience coding 3D modeling software. He's presumably staying at this job for a good long time.
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Date: 2011-03-21 03:56 pm (UTC)From:Speaking as a German, who lives in Berlin you can't say that 45 is too old to get a job in Germany. It depends a lot on what kind of job you are looking for and what industry you want to work in. And software engineers for example should have pretty good chances, particularly when they have some experience. Plus, trying to say today how the job situation in Berlin is going to be in ten years is insane. Lately we had trouble telling that 2 years in advance.
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Date: 2011-03-21 04:18 pm (UTC)From:I'm a licensed pharmacist here, but the idea of learning medical Fachdeutsch and basically repeating pharmacy school (or part of it; I don't know if I'd have to take courses or if an apprenticeship would suffice to qualify for the exam) isn't terribly appealing. And the rotating night/weekend thing doesn't thrill me, either.
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Date: 2011-03-21 05:13 pm (UTC)From:I'm afraid, I can't help with the pharmacist stuff. Maybe you could try looking for something that ustilizes your education, but is not a pharmacist, because I think you might have to re-take at least some of your courses over here.
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Date: 2011-03-21 05:24 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2011-03-21 08:40 pm (UTC)From:But you'd definitely have to take all the law stuff and courses that pertain to being a pharmacist and Germany/Europe.
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Date: 2011-03-21 09:21 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2011-03-20 09:21 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2011-03-20 09:45 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2011-03-21 04:16 am (UTC)From:--Beth
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Date: 2011-03-21 04:36 am (UTC)From:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704913704575453652182261156.html#articleTabs_comments%3D%26articleTabs%3Darticle
I already used mine so I can't see the rest.
--Beth
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Date: 2011-03-21 01:51 pm (UTC)From:I still have no idea what would be required for me to work as a pharmacist there: whether I'd have to go back to school and learn from scratch, or if I could just spend a year as an apprentice in a pharmacy and then sit the license exam. I really don't like license exams; if I sat down to take the NAPLEX today, I'd fail. (Most of us would, after a few years of work, when we don't have everything we learned in school fresh in our minds.)
Ideally, this writing career will happen by then. It doesn't pay much, most likely not enough to be proof that I can support myself (currently E10,000/yr). I don't know whether you can get multiple visas (ie one for freelance/self-employed writing, one for part-time work either through an employer or SE). http://www.toytowngermany.com/forum/index.php?showforum=180 has lots of discussion on visa issues, and http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/EN/EinreiseUndAufenthalt/Uebersicht_node.html is the official site (English version).
I honestly wouldn't mind being a tour guide with one of the English-language places there, but you have to have lived in Berlin for a year before you can apply. I would need to somehow support myself, or Ben would need to find a job that can support us both. That may be the hard part.
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Date: 2011-03-22 03:06 pm (UTC)From: