Who's in Germany or planning to come over?

Soldie

theroomisonfire wrote: »

Thanks for the tips. Do you have any recommendations as to where I can find jobs in Hamburg or any particular companies that might have English speaking jobs and would be worth targeting.

There are loads of employment websites: Monster, JobScout24, turbojob, LinkedIn, XING, StepStone, and many more.

No company will hire you just because you speak English. There is no shortage of English-speakers around here. If you have the skills/qualifications/experience that a certain company needs then they may hire you even if you don't speak German. What kind of job are you looking for?

As regards the integration language lessons, do any of the main language schools such as tandem and Goethe offer these? Also, do you have any indication as to how the integration language lessons compare to other non integration language lessons.

Many thanks

As far as I'm aware the Goethe-Institut does. I am not familiar with Tandem. Googling "integration course Hamburg" yields many results - check them out.

theroomisonfire

Soldie wrote: »

There are loads of employment websites: Monster, JobScout24, turbojob, LinkedIn, XING, StepStone, and many more.

No company will hire you just because you speak English. There is no shortage of English-speakers around here. If you have the skills/qualifications/experience that a certain company needs then they may hire you even if you don't speak German. What kind of job are you looking for?



As far as I'm aware the Goethe-Institut does. I am not familiar with Tandem. Googling "integration course Hamburg" yields many results - check them out.

Thanks Soldie for those employment websites. I will check them out. I have plenty business skills so hopefully I could find something.

Drakares

I'm moving over in the next 6 months. Not sure where just yet but been looking at Konstanz/Friedrichshafen or somewhere south.

Not fluent but have a good base. Considering quitting work and coming over for a month or 2 before searching so I'm better spoken.

I have a degree in IT management, and several IT qualifications so hopefully once the language isn't so much of a barrier I won't have too many problems!

Drakares

Okay it's confirmed. Moving to Friedrichshafen, by lake Konstanz at the end of June/Start of July

Anyone living around this area?

Lawrence1895

Drakares wrote: »

Okay it's confirmed. Moving to Friedrichshafen, by lake Konstanz at the end of June/Start of July

Anyone living around this area?

I'm from Dortmund, but I know, there is a nice bunch of people living in that area.

Wishing you all the best for the new job and the new home

Cool_CM

Drakares wrote: »

Okay it's confirmed. Moving to Friedrichshafen, by lake Konstanz at the end of June/Start of July

Anyone living around this area?

Lovely part of the world! Enjoy!

KTRIC

Drakares wrote: »

Okay it's confirmed. Moving to Friedrichshafen, by lake Konstanz at the end of June/Start of July

Anyone living around this area?

My ex is from there , beautiful area

Drakares

Cheers, folks

Looking forward to some LKW when I get there

Lawrence1895

Drakares wrote: »

Cheers, folks

Looking forward to some LKW when I get there

As in 'HGV'? 'Trucks'?

Drakares

Lars1916 wrote: »

As in 'HGV'? 'Trucks'?

I mean Leberkäse!

Lawrence1895

Drakares wrote: »

I mean Leberkäse!

I know, what Leberkaese is, I'm German. Yummy stuff alright

But what does the 'W' stand for?

Drakares

Lars1916 wrote: »

I know, what Leberkaese is, I'm German. Yummy stuff alright

But what does the 'W' stand for?

Wecken

Had to ask the missus. Apparently it's Swabian for broetchen

Lawrence1895

Drakares wrote: »

Wecken

Had to ask the missus. Apparently it's Swabian for broetchen

They have a funny dialect down there alright, but I like it

livinginkorea

All this talk of Leberkäse is making me hungry! I know exactly what to have for lunch now! Goes really well with a fried egg on top and some ketchup for the young one. Or a large slice of cheese in some bread roll.

livinginkorea

Anyone around Frankfurt or near Mainz? Been here a year now but haven't met many Irish people. Mostly English and Americans and Polish....and Germans of course

Soldie

I'm already hooked on the mighty Franzbrötchen. :cool:

jester77

Soldie wrote: »

I'm already hooked on the mighty Franzbrötchen. :cool:

If you like the Franzbrötchen, then check out the zimt wuppis. Not as sugary but lots of cinnamon goodness. I think they are a speciality of Kamps bakery, so you probably won't find them elsewhere.

snorrie

livinginkorea wrote: »

Anyone around Frankfurt or near Mainz? Been here a year now but haven't met many Irish people. Mostly English and Americans and Polish....and Germans of course

I live just east of Frankfurt, been here about 7 or 8 years now. I haven't met many Irish people either. Have met one or two through an international group that meets on Monday evenings in Bornheim.

livinginkorea

snorrie wrote: »

I live just east of Frankfurt, been here about 7 or 8 years now. I haven't met many Irish people either. Have met one or two through an international group that meets on Monday evenings in Bornheim.

I work on the Kaiserstrasse so not a million miles away at all!

ehcor

Have you guys tried www.Toytowngermany.com? There are lots of meetups for different age groups and interests. It's obviously for all nationalities, but it's a good way to meet people and there are often Irish people in there somewhere.

Also, the Irish Business Network Frankfurt arrange different events once a month at Frohsinn, near the Zeil and that's all Irish. Check out their website, www.irishbusinessnetwork.de.

Then there's Waxys in Frankfurt, it's not your typical flatpack foreign Irish pub, it's much more homely and there always seems to be Irish people in there, give it a go!

Dr Strange

Anyone currently in Berlin?

Apanachi

Preusse wrote: »

Anyone currently in Berlin?

Unfortunately yes...

Dr Strange

Unfortunately, because of the humid air at the moment or other reasons?

Apanachi

Preusse wrote: »

Unfortunately, because of the humid air at the moment or other reasons?

Unfortunately because I'd rather be home in Ireland (the humid air bugs me too, I miss my Irish Atlantic breeze)

I'm also not a city person, but lucikly I live just outside of city, so I only have to bear it here during the daytime, in the evenings I can go home to my nice quiet suburbian life

Dr Strange

Ah yes, I see. Luckily, my stay is only temporary for research purposes.

munchkin_utd

is the air in Berlin noticably more humid than Ireland, or is it just warm and humid or something along those lines?

I find Munich air to be too bloody dry. Hands are only recovering now somewhat from a serious problem with the dry winter air.
I thankfully dont suffer from the Föhn which is the mysterious warm airflow from the alps that gives many folks headaches.

Has anyone noticed the crazy amount of Germans who have hayfever and Asthma compared to Ireland?
I know barely anybody with asthma (i.e. only 1 person comes to mind who uses an inhaler) and when I came to germany I had to look up hayfever on the internet to see what the hell it was!

jester77

munchkin_utd wrote: »

is the air in Berlin noticably more humid than Ireland, or is it just warm and humid or something along those lines?

I find Munich air to be too bloody dry. Hands are only recovering now somewhat from a serious problem with the dry winter air.
I thankfully dont suffer from the Föhn which is the mysterious warm airflow from the alps that gives many folks headaches.

Has anyone noticed the crazy amount of Germans who have hayfever and Asthma compared to Ireland?
I know barely anybody with asthma (i.e. only 1 person comes to mind who uses an inhaler) and when I came to germany I had to look up hayfever on the internet to see what the hell it was!

I know one lad who never suffered until he came to Germany, birch trees which are on every street here are what is causing it for him.

Lawrence1895

jester77 wrote: »

I know one lad who never suffered until he came to Germany, birch trees which are on every street here are what is causing it for him.

I don't have any problems with hay fewer, since I live in Ireland. Maybe it's the breeze from the sea, which makes the difference.

No sea shore near Dortmund, where I'm from, sometimes it was really awful, but when I went to Hamburg, Bremen or Rostock, it was much better.

munchkin_utd

Lars1916 wrote: »

I don't have any problems with hay fewer, since I live in Ireland. Maybe it's the breeze from the sea, which makes the difference.

No sea shore near Dortmund, where I'm from, sometimes it was really awful, but when I went to Hamburg, Bremen or Rostock, it was much better.

Theres, comparitively speaking, shag all birch trees in ireland which seems to be the most aggressive trigger of hay fever on the continent.
And, rain aparantly dampens down the effects of pollen in the air.....
something which is in abundance in Ireland!

Lucario

munchkin_utd wrote: »

Has anyone noticed the crazy amount of Germans who have hayfever and Asthma compared to Ireland?
I know barely anybody with asthma (i.e. only 1 person comes to mind who uses an inhaler) and when I came to germany I had to look up hayfever on the internet to see what the hell it was!

Shíte do people ahev bad hayfever over in Germany? :eek:

Going over in June to Bavaria and then traveling for a while and finally going up to Schleswig-Holstein. I've both hayfever and asthma so the dry weather could irritate the hell out of me :pac: Generally how's the weather so far? Hoping to get a slight tan while I'm there anyways haha

munchkin_utd

Nah, you'll be grand.
All the pollen is in the air now mainly from trees but that'll have passed by the time you're over.

What's really aggressive is the birch tree which is far more common in Germany than Ireland so it's effects are more profound. But it all comes in a burst in may. In Poland it's so synomous with this time if the year that the month of may is named after the birch tree!

Just be glad you aren't coming in may or you would probably be very miserable!

Misty Moon

If you check the wetter.de website, they show what the pollen count is going to be like, too. If you hover over the pollen picture you can see what kind of pollen it refers to. Here's today's for Düsseldorf, for example:
http://www.wetter.de/deutschland/wetter-duesseldorf-18220611.html showing mid-level birch pollen count, tomorrow is low-level birch and grass pollen. Of course, that's 'cos it's pissing rain but whatever, I'll take it. It's typical that birch pollen is the one thing I'm actually allergic to.

munchkin_utd wrote: »

is the air in Berlin noticably more humid than Ireland, or is it just warm and humid or something along those lines?

I find Munich air to be too bloody dry. Hands are only recovering now somewhat from a serious problem with the dry winter air.
I thankfully dont suffer from the Föhn which is the mysterious warm airflow from the alps that gives many folks headaches.

Has anyone noticed the crazy amount of Germans who have hayfever and Asthma compared to Ireland?
I know barely anybody with asthma (i.e. only 1 person comes to mind who uses an inhaler) and when I came to germany I had to look up hayfever on the internet to see what the hell it was!

I knew far more people in Ireland with asthma than I do here. Hayfever maybe about the same although in Ireland it tends to be self-diagnosed and people just suffer through it or use OTC meds. Here I had to go and get a proper diagnosis (was trying to donate blood and they don't let you if you're in the middle of bad hay fever and insist on having the allergens report from your doc) but that's fine because the doctor gives me good meds that work (even if I do usually end up getting a nose spray - I hate taking it but it does help).

Don't know about Berlin or Munich but in Düsseldorf the winter air is ridiculously dry and it gets really, really humid in summer. Total opposite of Dublin where you're checking for damp in winter and not in summer.

herthabsc

I am going over to the sacred Fatherland this evening and can't wait to get over there to the Allgaeu region! - Oberstdorf, Obersammergau, Garmisch-Parkinkerkin etc - lovely wheatbeer, mountains etc

livinginkorea

This is a shout out to the two girls who were on the train to Koblenz speaking Irish! Fantastic stuff!

I have been outside of Ireland for 10 years now and never heard Irish spoken (apart from craic in the Irish pub) so it really made my day.

Apanachi

livinginkorea wrote: »

This is a shout out to the two girls who were on the train to Koblenz speaking Irish! Fantastic stuff!

I have been outside of Ireland for 10 years now and never heard Irish spoken (apart from craic in the Irish pub) so it really made my day.

I was walking down a busy street in Berlin one day and two guys were standing near the train station station when one of them looks at me and said "Dia duit cailín deas álainn" - I just smiled, said "Go raibh maith agat" and walked on, his face was priceless and his friend was in stitches laughing, I don't think he was expecting anyone to understand him, let alone answer back "as gaeilge"

livinginkorea

Apanachi wrote: »

I was walking down a busy street in Berlin one day and two guys were standing near the train station station when one of them looks at me and said "Dia duit cailín deas álainn" - I just smiled, said "Go raibh maith agat" and walked on, his face was priceless and his friend was in stitches laughing, I don't think he was expecting anyone to understand him, let alone answer back "as gaeilge"

I was thinking if I should say something but it would have been strange after 'listening' for so long so I just left it

Drakares

In Friedrichshafen now, just about settling in! Picked up my first blood injury playing astroturf with a group of the missus's brothers friends. Am studying German in CJD 4 hours per day, going from A2 - B2.

All going well, though these Bratwurst and Weisswurst are so damn tasty I think I've put on some weight!!

DesertCreat_15

Drakares wrote: »

A group of the missus's brothers friends

Wait til they start coming with kegs of beer and a lift of shots telling you that "you must drink, you are irish" :pac:

munchkin_utd

Drakares wrote: »

<snip>
All going well, though these Bratwurst and Weisswurst are so damn tasty I think I've put on some weight!!

you sure its not the beer?

I remember back pre celtic-cub days (before students had 1000s upon 1000s of euros of cash to go travelling to the other side of the world for the summer, so came en masse to Munich) it was very noticable how a lot of the ladies went home significantly chunkier and rounder than when they came, mainly from a diet of beer !

Andrew Purfield

munchkin_utd wrote: »

is the air in Berlin noticably more humid than Ireland, or is it just warm and humid or something along those lines?

I find Munich air to be too bloody dry. Hands are only recovering now somewhat from a serious problem with the dry winter air.
I thankfully dont suffer from the Föhn which is the mysterious warm airflow from the alps that gives many folks headaches.

Has anyone noticed the crazy amount of Germans who have hayfever and Asthma compared to Ireland?
I know barely anybody with asthma (i.e. only 1 person comes to mind who uses an inhaler) and when I came to germany I had to look up hayfever on the internet to see what the hell it was!

I lived in France for a year and spent 6-7 weeks on an internship in Berlin and also have been to Munich on holiday for a week. I've never had hay fever outside of Ireland. The pollen here is unbelievable. I should know, I sell strawberries and daffodils every summer and spring!

The whole week in Munich it was 38 degrees and we spent a day in Austria like that too. Air was dry alright but nice. No hay fever.

Andrew Purfield

bump. Anyone any experience working as a language assistant in Austria? I learnt my German with Austrians and Germans in France and for a while through working in Berlin but only been to Austria for a day so 12 hours a week working for the dept. of education on a decent basic wage interests me more than 2-3 euro an hour to clean books again like I did in Berlin..also will be a good way of spending a year abroad I figure to get fluent before maybe doing a masters somewhere in the auld Sprachraum.

Ardennes1944

Finishing my Masters in BIS in July, hoping to get an internship in Germany if no graduate programmes in Ireland come to fruition, has anyone done any sort of IT or business analyst internship in Germany before?

Andrew Purfield

I did a business one in a bookshop before but it's half the pay of jobbridge. Was a joke too as it was just a glorified cleaning job. Answer you better to get any job that isn't strictly an internship as it will at least pay average basic of 800 plus a month. Germany is like anywhere else and employers take advantage of interns to get them to do the most degrading work.

Having said that you could try IT, especially if you don't have fluent German.

hfallada

Whats the best affordable city for employment at the moment? I have retail experience and will be able to give excellent references. My German is ok, but not perfect. Like I can understand about 85-90% of German radio or a TV show. What city would be the best for a summer job(from Mid-May onwards) and Ill be going back to college in mid-September.

Lawrence1895

hfallada wrote: »

Whats the best affordable city for employment at the moment? I have retail experience and will be able to give excellent references. My German is ok, but not perfect. Like I can understand about 85-90% of German radio or a TV show. What city would be the best for a summer job(from Mid-May onwards) and Ill be going back to college in mid-September.

I would rule out the East of Germany and the Ruhr Valley (Dortmund or Essen), as you can find the highest unemployment rates in the country in these regions.

hfallada

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

Finishing my Masters in BIS in July, hoping to get an internship in Germany if no graduate programmes in Ireland come to fruition, has anyone done any sort of IT or business analyst internship in Germany before?

Look up linkedin. I seen hundreds of internships for just banks in Frankfurt a couple of weeks ago. Try linkedin

Crumpets

Heading to Göttingen in September to attend Georg-August Universität for the year. Excited!!

TheBoss11

Hi guys, looking to go to Germany for the summer and just work for the Sumner months and then come home. Just wondering is there any websites I could look at to get a job before I go over? It's something I would really love to do

Lawrence1895

TheBoss11 wrote: »

Hi guys, looking to go to Germany for the summer and just work for the Sumner months and then come home. Just wondering is there any websites I could look at to get a job before I go over? It's something I would really love to do

https://ec.europa.eu/eures/home.jsp?lang=en

Gives you some background information about Germany as well.

zweton

is it possible get an english speaking i.t job in any of the cities?