I'm taking a class at the community college (which is about equivalent to a VHS), in which we go over the standards for project management. A lot of it is ... pretty obvious, really, but there's a standard for the best way to do it. Which, OK, whatever.
4500 hours of experience is a lot, but that's just to take an exam. You don't *need* the exam necessarily to work. I pulled out my calculator, and it's just over 2 years of full time work (40-hr weeks). But I'm currently doing it part time, so unless I get one of the clinical trial coordinator jobs I applied for, it'll take me a bit longer than that to get enough hours to take the exam. (I'm tracking my hours spent working on the convention, and once I've talked to Sam, I'll start tracking hours spent organizing his magazine projects.)
We have a lot fewer Ausbildung requirements here than over there, though sometimes it can be hard getting your foot in the door in certain places. If I build enough experience doing random unpaid things, maybe someone will realize I can do it for real.
Berlin: we're not exactly sure on a date yet! The original proposal had been to take a family trip over at Christmas, when his parents like doing things as a family, but Ben thought it would be nice to go sometime when it isn't freezing, cloudy, rainy/foggy, and gets dark at 4 pm. So he proposed summer as an alternative. I put a bunch of things together, he emailed his mom, and she'll get back to us when she's finished the grant she's working on at the moment. (Don't know when that'll be.) I expect we'll talk about it in detail when we're all together at Thanksgiving (late November), but probably not firm up dates yet. Maybe which season and what year...
Have you seen my ridiculously obsessive spreadsheet? Are there any sights you think I'm missing (as a resident)?
Ideally, I'd like to go out a day or two ahead of them so I can meet all my internet friends who live there, since I figure there won't be enough time while I'm dragging the in-laws around and they wouldn't be interested in, say, hanging out at a cafe for a few hours, then moving to a different cafe/pub for a few hours and meeting a bunch of random Germans.
I'd also ideally get one of my old phones unlocked & pick up a German pre-paid SIM and use that to SMS people where I am. And call ahead for dinner reservations if necessary, etc. There's a guy who has put together a convenient table of what carriers' rates are and where to buy SIM cards to get the best deal. Useful!
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4500 hours of experience is a lot, but that's just to take an exam. You don't *need* the exam necessarily to work. I pulled out my calculator, and it's just over 2 years of full time work (40-hr weeks). But I'm currently doing it part time, so unless I get one of the clinical trial coordinator jobs I applied for, it'll take me a bit longer than that to get enough hours to take the exam. (I'm tracking my hours spent working on the convention, and once I've talked to Sam, I'll start tracking hours spent organizing his magazine projects.)
We have a lot fewer Ausbildung requirements here than over there, though sometimes it can be hard getting your foot in the door in certain places. If I build enough experience doing random unpaid things, maybe someone will realize I can do it for real.
Berlin: we're not exactly sure on a date yet! The original proposal had been to take a family trip over at Christmas, when his parents like doing things as a family, but Ben thought it would be nice to go sometime when it isn't freezing, cloudy, rainy/foggy, and gets dark at 4 pm. So he proposed summer as an alternative. I put a bunch of things together, he emailed his mom, and she'll get back to us when she's finished the grant she's working on at the moment. (Don't know when that'll be.) I expect we'll talk about it in detail when we're all together at Thanksgiving (late November), but probably not firm up dates yet. Maybe which season and what year...
Have you seen my ridiculously obsessive spreadsheet? Are there any sights you think I'm missing (as a resident)?
Ideally, I'd like to go out a day or two ahead of them so I can meet all my internet friends who live there, since I figure there won't be enough time while I'm dragging the in-laws around and they wouldn't be interested in, say, hanging out at a cafe for a few hours, then moving to a different cafe/pub for a few hours and meeting a bunch of random Germans.
I'd also ideally get one of my old phones unlocked & pick up a German pre-paid SIM and use that to SMS people where I am. And call ahead for dinner reservations if necessary, etc. There's a guy who has put together a convenient table of what carriers' rates are and where to buy SIM cards to get the best deal. Useful!