I'd forgotten, too, actually! I was just reading through tags, and I said, oh right, there's this comment...

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.)

zombieallomorph suggested on facebook that it would be hard to get a job in academia over there, since there's no lack of Germanistik majors. (He suggested DAAD or the Goethe Institut.) But translation, or, hell, teaching English (or German) at a VHS or IDK. Something. (And since I'm a writer, I have a selling point for fiction translation, because I can make stylistic choices.) I wouldn't mind teaching at a GI, but I don't know how often they hire or what the criteria are. There are a few in the US, but not here; the closest are in DC or Atlanta.

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.