Orginal gepostet von frenchkid
First of all what kind of Job are you looking for ??
My honest answer would be \"French aristocrat before the revolution\" but since this is kinda hard to get I\'d take anything. Well, pretty much anything, I\'m not going into prostitution (though I would happily work at a bordello not selling my body) and... well, that\'s pretty much it.
Orginal gepostet von frenchkid
These past two summer I\'ve had no probleme finding a job, but I haven\'t been picky, which means not an office job but jobs in construction or on the factory floor beeing payed minimum wage. Quit frankly I don\'t mind, I\'d rather do that than be mister photocopy in some bank. But a lot of my friends who try a find a job during sumer don\'t find it because they are expecting some uber interesting job in a cushy office just because they are doing (really) good studies. So lecon one, search where they need people : Construction, factories where peope are going on vacation, ect.....
I\'d gladly do any job. I have no illusions about work being fun (well, sometimes it might be) or not having to work hard. I applied for carrying parcels at UPS (several times already) - no chance. I tried to get work on the Cranger Kirmes, a really large fair around here, and was unsuccesful for the third year in a row. I said I was available whenever for anything and any payment. No offers. A friend\'s girlfriend offered to work only on weekends on jobs with no heavy lifting and for at least I don\'t know how much per hours and can\'t even begin to count the offers she gets. So men are not wanted? I check if people to assemble and disassemble the rides are needed. The signs say they are, but nobody wants me (or my friend for that matter).
Well, that\'s not entirely correct. Every year I get a single offer, I get told I am hired and the next day the guy calls me and tells me he\'s hired a random girl that just went by and probably essed his dee, if you catch my drift, and that I am not needed anymore. This has happened every year so far.
I feel kinda cursed.
Orginal gepostet von frenchkid
The reason I\'m saying that is because in your post you put emphasis on speaking two languages and beeing able to programme. Well bottom line, student job don\'t require skills, they don\'t want skilled people because they are usually smart enougth to make them feel bad and tell them what they are doing wrong. So when I\'m looking for a job I skip the part where I speak 3 languages, am a student in b school, and all that.
I mentioned this because, if I may say so, I am not dumb and learn quickly. In theory I would dare to say I am suited to many jobs. Everybody can do heavy lifting (and I gladly would too), I have some more options - which never come into play it seems.
Orginal gepostet von frenchkid
Second thing that would come to mind is appereance. One of those stupid non written rule of employement is that to have a chance to be employed you must not have your employer dislike your appeareance. Meaning that visible tattoos, big beards, long hair, piercings , ect. all have to go. Sad, but most of the time true.
You know how I look
I have long hair which I will not cut, but I keep it clean and regurlarly have it trimmed and always remind that I would happily wear it in a ponytail which is my \"talking to potential employers hairstyle\" anyway. I take care of my beard as well - I am not Karl Marx by any means, but I have some facial hair. I cut off the strays and thin my beard when it gets too thick. I may not look good or even remotely touch the beauty ideal, but I am well groomed.
Orginal gepostet von frenchkid
And lastly, I\'ve learned not to be afraid to use your friends/family to find a job. I used to be pretty uncomfortable doing that, but in the end if you\'re not going to do it someone els will, and since it\'s a student job I\'m seaking and I know I can do the job as well or better than the next guy, I decided that using contacts wasn\'t such a bad thing
Yes, I did that for three years now, did not really help me...
Orginal gepostet von Naukhel
Check your local papers for \'first come first serve\' cash labour jobs.
I don\'t know if they\'re very common, but here in T.O., there are companies that
get their general labourers in this manner.
Must have: Work boots, work gloves.
Truck pulls up. Climb on. Work all day.
Get paid cash.
I have never seen anything like this.
Orginal gepostet von Naukhel
Germany, huh? I\'ll check with my wife.
She\'s got lots of family out there. Might serve as potential contacts, if they\'re close
enough.
Thank you, but please don\'t be offended if I have no real hope in this.
Orginal gepostet von DaN
Have you tried applying for work through an agency...?
Yes, of course. Usually I get no response at all and if I keep following up I constantly get the answer that I should not call and they\'ll tell me if they have work for me. I have no faith in the German \"agency of employment\" (I think that\'s a euphemism) at all.
Orginal gepostet von Evil Dave
Unless, working at a university, or construction type job, this is too true.
Cut the hair, shave the beard.
I know it sucks, it kind of hurts the pride, but you\'ll find you have much more pride when you\'re able to pay your bills.
I just can\'t. Call it pride or whatever you want, but I don\'t think I could just get rid of something that defines me for a better job chance. I am clean and well groomed, but I have long hair and a beard. I like the way I look eventhough I know that the rest of the world disagrees with me
To me, removing this feels the same as if someone said \"go get a circumcision if you want a job\".
Orginal gepostet von treide
Seriously though, not sure what to suggest for employment in Germany. If you don\'t mind being a guinea pig and are near a big medical center, you could participate in research studies, although that doesn\'t help you much in the long term.
I thought about this too actually, but the companies I have seen do not seem too reputable and my health is far more important to me than a quick buck. Most would probably not work with me anyway considering that I have a damaged immune system anyway (always had it since birth).
Orginal gepostet von generulpoleaxe
mosch, factory work is the easiest and appearance isn\'t strict.
it\'s honest hard graft for an okay wage (often pays more than retail)
Great theory, but i have not yet been able to apply it yet...
Orginal gepostet von jahminis
it seems like you have had a lot of time on your hands this summer, and since you can program, there is no reason not to make a little website and sell all the minis you have painted in your spare time...
Have a look at my gallery. So you really think people would pay for this crap? I actually tried it before though, I could never even get the cost of the raw mini (which by all logic means that my paintjobs actually lower the quality of miniatures thus giving GW a reason to send me a stern letter
).
Orginal gepostet von jahminis
:cussing: jobs suck...
Laying on other people\'s pockets sucks even more...
Orginal gepostet von jahminis
there is the thing about bein\' careful what you wish for, as you just might get it...
\"I wish for infinity hamburgers!\"
Usually I don\'t get what I wish for. I got Cheryll which is pretty the best thing (um. Person.) I ever got in my life, but I didn\'t actually
wish for her. I would not have dared to utter a wish for something I don\'t think I could ever deserve.
However, for the sake of the fool\'s hope...
\"I wish for a job inside my moral bounds that allows me to support myself at least a little.\"
Orginal gepostet von jahminis
(someone stole my kitten last weekend!!!)...i have to enforce the rules with a tire iron(you can talk to me, or you can talk to ol\' blacky!!!), and carry a 9mm just in case...
makes me look back on the days of bein\' unemployed with fondness...
Stole. Your. Kitten.
Are you
serious?
Well, thanks for your answers, everyone. Fact is I don\'t really have a bad life. I have a good standard of life... which my parents pay for. I have access to the internet to talk to you guys, I have food and clothing, we own a house (which is rarer here in Germany than it is in America, by the way) and I\'m pretty sure that my parents would pay the rest of my fees if I actually could not pay my university bills. I have a (already kinda lower class, meaning newer games won\'t run on it) PC and several video game consoles (granted they are old ones mostly - which I love dearly). I live in luxury.
But I want to be able to afford this on my own, not because my parents see that I\'m struggling and give me something...
Strangely, ranting really calms my nerves. I like that.
