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Is there a legal way to get a deposit back from the landlord if I’ve left the country ?
How are you supposed to get a normal job in the country? Okay, pretty much every job requires a bachelor (better a master of course). But even then you look at job postings and even for ENTRY LEVEL/JUNIOR positions they always say 2-3 years experience. And for every internship they always say ONLY STUDENTS because they'd have to pay at least minimum wage unless it's a mandatory student internship. How the hell did anyone here ever get their first job?
They all get free education. It’s beneficial for discounts until they’re 40 to avoid any real working. Although I do have a degree, I really find degrees as useful as toilet paper seeing so many with one of those, but not able to pin A to B. Anyway, this is my rant to a different topic.
I guess at least having those on my resume, I got me to the interview stage a few times. Who knows.
To answer your question: if you are good in your field, just be confident. Don’t get put down while trying. Once you get to the interview table, sell yourself fairly and openly. Be modest as the common sense dictates, but not too modest. Here it seem a weakness rather than a quality.
On your CV elevate your working experience rather than your education and focus on your strength points.
Know what you want, what you’d like to do, what you’re good at and go for it.
Do not seem to willing to do everything. German employers find that desperate.
Use bigger words to describe poop tasks you had. I literally saw people selling themselves and their lack of experience by putting a bow on the poop. You can make everything sounds fancier than it is with a little effort.
And now, on the “black market” type of suggestions. No one asks for proof of your degree here. I might be wrong, but in three years never happened to anyone I know.
Just add a fancy BA and MA from a University in a foreign country, and you’re set. I add my master degree in my CV all the time, even though I dropped out of it, and never graduated it. I would admit not having the degree, but no one asked so far.
I also know someone who said that went to Uni, but in fact.. didn’t. Guess what happened?
Yup, no one checked. ;)
Good luck and fingers crossed!
Also, make up some experience in some foreign country, ask a friend to be available for a reference etc. if needed. You know, the usual... Lie a bit. :) But make sure it’s plausible.
They want 2 years of experience? Well, let me tell you about that one startup in Kuala Lumpur I was doing my management cycle at & the internship for that super secret project for a company I cannot disclose much as I signed a strict confidentiality clause.
Get creative.
Also, if you have a name that is hard on pronunciation, adjust it.
If it’s Tzymotzhy go for Tim etc.
Last name is Garcia Lopez De la Venga, go for just one, or.. Sklinkatinkachenko, go for the beginning part: Sklin.
From Tzymotzhy Sklinkatinkachenko = Tim Sklin or ... Tim Venga
( I apologise in advance for offending anyone with my fictive names here)
When you get the contract it will be as in your ID anyway.
I can tell you how it is. The HR departments in Germany are often full of sh*t. They want to hire a guy with a PhD, 10 years of experience, ideally you're 25 and are available 24/7 while working for 2000€ month max. Their expectations are completely out of touch. Unless you have any sort of connections, you can spend years of unsuccesful job hunt, like I did. Had to do further education as a web dev, because my original university degree was worth f*ck all.
This proves exactly their racism sometimes. They act so multi kulti for the sake of politically correctness, but they will always go for a German that has the intellect of a cabbage instead of a fairly bright or eager to learn foreigner.
One of the best qualities you must focus to develop is adaptability and willingness to learn.
Germans lack that by nature, and are socially autistic (and evil spirited, I might add).
No matter how much experience you have a new job is a learning curve. Always.
You can even learn from scratch on the job if you’re not a moron. That is why you see so many dysfunctional companies with dysfunctional people & a toxic competitive vibe.
If a German is feeling threatened by you because you are smarter, better, faster, you will prove nothing to anyone, except how stupid you must be to think they will see you less than subhuman if you’re not German.
Bonus point if you are from a poorer, conflict country or such. They’ll just assume you have not seen civilized world until you reached Germany.
Even the most multi kulti, vegan, leftie, refugee welcome type of Germans have this thing.
Übermenschen Syndrome still lingers on this society.
"You can even learn from scratch on the job if you’re not a moron."
Says a lot about a culture that thinks its own citizens are so mentally deficient that they need 13 YEARS of mandatory school followed by AT LEAST 3 MORE YEARS of higher education PLUS a PRACTICE JOB (i.e. internship/trainee (because for some reason trainees in Germany are just interns) to do any job at all. Germany just might be full of the stupidest people on earth.
To the person who said make up degrees. Obviously you are from a third world country. At some point, someone may ask for the degree and probably will. It's pretty easy to figure out that someone is lying about having a masters degree. You can figure this out with a Bachelors as well.
I am the one with the suggestion. Well, I did not “lie” about having it. I did my master. I just never did the final project to get the degree, but I do list it as it’s relevant knowledge I got there for my current job. I do not care, no one cares and I earn 5K+ per month. No one will ask at this point, and I am not even feeling guilty. They can call the University and confirm my registration, but who exactly does that?
I used to live in Berlin and escaped. My mistake is that I moved to VIENNA. Now why am I posting here? Because I have noticed that basically ALL GERMAN SPEAKING COUNTRIES ARE THE SAME: full of racists, degenerates, assholes and idiots and generally angry people without decent manners. Luckily I will be leaving Vienna at the end of the month but its exactly like Berlin: fake claims of "beautiful city" when it is in fact a dirty and grotty idiot fill of cunts. I advise anyone seeking to leave berlin: DO NOT MOVE TO ANOTHER GERMAN SPEAKING COUNTRY. Any country that is German speaking - I have learned - is as a rule of thumb just full of stupid assholes. Vienna has pulled the same trick as Berlin - pretending to be a nice city to lure in Tourist money - now that that is gone all these cities are going to get their comeuppance. Deservedly so!
I. Trying to understand this. I just spent a few hours reading about “influencer” In Berlin. Piecing together their stories that didn’t match up. It seems everyone I know is extremely broke. Do people really say “I’m going to Berlin to be an artist” and make up these OUTRIGHT LIES that they are living off of this?!? I could barely afford to eat!!! And nobody paid me for anything. Flashback two years to when I was living in another city and I could make enough money to buy clothes at a 60-80k year income with my other job - but not even THAT, I could NEVER buy that expensive clothing they wear and travel INTERNATIONAL as to Asia North America AND Europe!!!’
How rich are these kids ???! I’m seriously wondering because even on 80k I could never do that.
They don’t even have CV or website !!
And here they are saying how they made it in Berlin when most artist there can not even feed themselves ! And yes it is specific. To Berlin because there is absolutely no money there !!!!!!
Can someone please tell me ONE person they know who makes That kind of money off of art and doesn’t have parental support ?????
I know of only one person through a friend of a friend, a Gucci stylist and for some other brand.... but everyone I know is dirt poor !!!
I post often on this site lately because I want to expose the lie that is this City!!!! It is really not ok to say you moved to Berlin to be an artist with no experience and then bam you get all kinds of fashion and gigs. that’s not how life works!!!! It’s such a scam this city. At least in a city like NYC there is an actual economy you can make tips at a bar or work another job even rent is higher. Berliners make 40 in tips in a 12 hour shift !!!!
All these “artists” are CONSTANTLY lying about where they get money from (their parents) .... quite sick of this poop
This city needs to be exposed for what it is!!!! I am gone now. And now I can actually get my life back together but even when I make a good income.... it will never be like that .
People if you are giving your Children 100,000$ a year to live in Berlin as an “artist” there is something wrong with you, stop trying to live vicariously through your kids , this actually tricks the rest of the world into thinking there are actual WELL PAID opportunities in that city , which there are NOT
Ps and I know what real influenced are. These people are not real influenced. Maybe they do a few things one of them, the rest no. And there would be something that said “paid partnership with ____” and evening those were so far between.
Berlin is a lie
"Had one friend who had gay men pay to suck his penis"
This is seriously more common in Berlin than a sane person would think. Go to pretty much any park within the Berlin ring and look for secluded areas - you'll always find gross old men looking to pay to fuck.
Actually I’m the OP and a sex worker. And Berlin was trash for money. That’s why I left. I won’t work for cheaply. Don’t you realize people pay €30 at brothels?! Disgusting !
There is no way those artists made any money as sex worker in Berlin, sorry. They also look too innocent for that and some were men. They just have rich parents.
Because even in Berlin some months phones do not ring... and germans were ALWAYS lowballing, wanting to met right away, usually late at night and to come to my personal address with ZERO identification/screening ??!! It’s completely bananas . But that is how Berlin and most of Europe operates, can’t wait to make six figures in 2021 in a safe and upscale environment.
I found all germans care about is sex. They don’t care about upscale services. They don’t even understand when you try to talk to them. Man, in USA I would have people take me out for dinner , overnights, weekends. Hahahahaha I would rather shoot my self than do that with a german
I literally had men write me “hast du Zeit” for three years. Til. I realized . It’s not the same person writing me from different numbers. All germans are the same . No respect for sex workers, no concept of class or how to properly introeuce themselves. As if I would just see anyone and risk my safety? I wouldn’t . I’d just wait for a German who followed instructions (1/20 ) or for an American tourist to come through. And those American tourists reminded me what it’s nice about doing actual things together and treating me with proper respect .
I knew many trust fund kids. They all had "projects", studied at places like central st Martins. Tbh, I don't blame them for living the life they're living. No pressure, no bills so you can generally pursue what interests you. I agree that claiming to make it in Berlin is BS. I'd have more respect for them if they just said "I have a fund so I can do whatever the F I want".
op here again. and no, I didn't know berlin sex work was so trash before moving, obviously. some months I did well at 5000. but I usually only made 1500-3000. which is not exactly the point of my job!!! the point of my job is to live fabulously. something which is completely lost on berliners.
plus, I never registered. in germany they make you register and get a card saying you are a hussy and go to all kinds of vocational training. but really they just want your tax money (again, not the point of my job). and I have heard this week, police are posing as clients and raiding peoples apartments, because theyre not supposed to be working under corona. this country is a hellhole.
and yes the problem with the trust fund kids is the point being, they perpetuate the illusion that is berlin with all of their lies about "making it" there as an artist. whereas I know the reality, there is no making it there. and even me as a sex worker could not afford that with my income. its just too crazy.
I'm just remembering now my awkward dates with germans. one just talked about the most random, not arousing or interesting stuff - his car, fro 1.5 hour, the other one, just sat blankly staring at me when I tried to be friendly, the other one, was completely obliterated on cocaine, the other one, thought he could just pay me and treat like an object, the other one, tried to lock me in the apartment after and demand my real name.....
I am surprised women let men in this country act this way. you can tell a lot about a country by the men through my job. I would say germans were by far the cheapest, most boundary pushing, and weirdest. they even want to have sex with the blinds or window open, they really don't care if the neighvours directly across see or hear. they really have no sense of the term "discretion
plus also haha......most of them or one point or another complained about price because they were used to a brothel service..... idiot this is not a brothel.... then they try to tell me how it is,,,,, clearly have never been anywhere else on the planet.....
really I wonder why german women put up with some bullshit, but maybe theyre just as desperate to have sex as they are, I mean they do it for free anyway, withut the men even having to flirt, take them on date, or pay for dinner..... classless and boring
I know im ranting but maybe this is interesting for people to read....in comparison.... north American cleints book weeks in advance for when they travel....german client "Hast du zeit?" Oh, sorry, one hour is too long from now to meet. I want to meet you at the drop of a hat. Of course you're just sitting around all day waiting for sex.
American client- they give me their real name and linkedin so I know its not police and they aren't a rapist. German client "I'm afraid of my personal information being stolen" BUT " let me come to your house now (where your name is on the doorbell) without telling you who I am"
American client - tries to actually get to know me German client - focuses on solely sex and acts weird when I try to make myself human by talking to them - wow what a turn off, I just wanted to bang with them having zero boundaries and then leave and pay hardly anything!
American client - respects price structure before contacting me
German client - tries to negotiate price even when it is clearly listed online
American client - doesn't go to brothels, because views women working there having sex for low money and 10-15 men a day as disgusting, would rather pay more for someone who doesn't work that way
German client - does not see women having sex with 10-15 men a day disgusting, doesn't even consider that, just wants something cheap./
they even have a category on berlin intim called "hobby whore"
oh heres another one
American client - likes nice lingerie and branding, personality
German client - knows fornicate ALL about lingerie and even finds it ridiculous!?!?!!?!!!? (what kind of idiot hates lingerie) and likes the fake tits, trashy porn look, completely characature
Besides this is “Berlin hater” not “women hater”
I’m a ho that hates Berlin so I’m just writing on this forum so people see the reality of this sham of a city. Not even hos can supplement their living as “artists” unless they want to work for cheap. It’s a joke
I kinda of enjoyed the elaborated comparison OP made.
I do agree it says a lot about what we all experience on a human level with Germans. Also, that is how a savvy prostitute should be: Erotic.
I am a girl, not getting laid much. I prefer a connection which I don’t really get... But one time I had sex with a German guy and it was quite good. I was somehow attracted and confident to him to be openly into it, erotic and enjoying it.
Then all fell apart as he got insecure and afraid that I was exaggerating getting pleasure with him. Like boy.. What? RIP
Are your physical attributes even 300€ worth?
If yes, you should have registered and worked at Artemis. Stop complaining, life is not fair. Seems like you started to approach the wall and you’re just bitter that you didn’t find your personal Edward Lewis aka suggar daddy yet!
youtu.be/eDYXjFCkzyg
Above. You’re an A**hole.
You can offer an erotic experience with all kinds of physical attributes.
You can see drop dead gorgeous women stiff as planks and robust women luscious as sexual AF. As in every job, it requires skills, tact and experience to make it worth the money.
And no, I am not the OP, but I think prostitution comes in many form. From cheap to high class.
We categorize any other good we consume like that, so dafuq is that comment of yours?
OP did say that the purpose of the job is to live fabulously (for her) so ja, frustration is due in that case.
Lol, the guy saying I should work at Artemis. This guy is totally a German. Did you not read anything I wrote ? These freaking retards think brothels is the only form of sexual experience. Morons, this isn’t taking a woman on a date. This is a brothel. Where women work for cheap because they usually have no clue they can charge more, thanks to Berlin clientele. And no I was not on Kaufmich. Com . That literally translates into “buy me” . The ad sites in Berlin are so cheap and trashy. There is nothing erotic about any of this. When I met Americans or went to UK, it was nice to have people with some kind of social skills. Berlin is the dark ages. Backwards, “prostitution”, that the women working in if they were educated properly on how workers can make a living in other countries, would not work under those conditions. But usually they come from a shittier economic situation than Germany and don’t know any better.
and no I would never register with the German system, trash German poster above. Why would I get a card that says “whore”, which would be on my permanent record for travel and other employment, and go to vocational traning for that????? Oh and pay all kinds of tax? fornicate germany! I escaped, fornicate them, and fornicate their future. Those fuckers aren’t even helping Italy in Corona. I hate them. I’m glad I never paid any tax and I’m glad they didn’t ruin my life further !
And why you are also trash is you are telling me how to run my business as if germany isn’t somehow responsible. I’ve worked all over the world, and I have NEVER met such trash clientele and cheap people as I did in Berlin.
Ps I charge over 1000 per hour in USA. Idiot.
And PPS I don’t want a sugar daddy, idiot. I could easily find one. I don’t want some moron controlling my life and lowbAlling me. I like working for an hourly rate. And not getting a billion texts message from some idiot. I like when clients come see me and then LEAVE. Idiot...
Although I will say this, apparently dommes make good money in Berlin. That’s the only people I know of, professionals in dungeons make good money. And trans. Or if you want to go to an upscale agency, but for that you have to register and pay out 40%, so theres no point.
Germany is so backwards to make people register . And apparently now the police are going around, busting people for working during corona and raiding their apartments. Because there is no screening for workers safety in Germany. I am so glad I am not there anymore. I don’t regret moving to that country because it taught me a lot and it was a good challenge, but fornicate Germany.
Spend time with a German and they’ll turn any positive experience to a negative one. Why are they so negative about everything. Pisses me off to no end
Everyone I know who has been in Berlin for a decade are still wearing things went out of style at that time. Ear tunnel, white dreadlocks, I mean really the early 2000s never ended in Berlin
So true.
I have seen so many ugly looking creatures because they lack all sense of aesthetics in their looks. Some are not ugly-ugly, if you look closer, but they uglify with their (non)sense of style.
If you see someone beautiful, atractive and groomed, definitely a foreigner.
Examples I know: German girl with a grnerally beautiful face = one of the most repelent and unattractive atractive people I have got to know. Posture, style, manner, idiotic thinking... all dumpster quality.
One foreigner girl, full of charm. Slick, subtle, feminine. Has a rather big nose, but her sexiness overwrite any perfect facial feature the other one might have.
It this city is rather cool to look like a hobo or like a Chucky doll with botox and fake lashes. No in between
Only Germany would birth Freud
What the hell is with all these "Freud wasn't German" and "Hitler wasn't German" people here? For all intents and purposes, everyone from Germany/Austria/Switzerland is a fornicating with mother German if they grew up speaking German because they all have the same idiot culture and are all autistic fucks.
People have been complaining previously about having to pay for toilets, and so on. Even beyond death, these miserly cretins want to rinse you...
UK: Graves chosen for re-use must be at least 75 years old and notices are posted on the headstone and in advertisements for six months beforehand. If there is an objection, the grave will be left untouched. ... “With so many, after 75 years, families have moved away and the graves are not visited any more.
Unlike American/UK cemeteries, due to lack of space, the "final" resting places in Germany are not eternal. The plots are usually leased (subscribed to) for a certain period of time (15-25 years). After that it depends on the descendants (or the community if it's a famous person) to finance another period of 15-25 years. If no family is left, and the grave is old, the plot is cleaned and will be used for another burial. The cemetery administration alerts the family of the deceased about the pending leveling by a small sticker on the gravestone or plot.
That says it all really. I went for a walk in a cemetery today. I found out it was built by nazis, and then I learnt the above information.
Disgusted.
Yeah, all those neon orange stickers in cemeteries are tacky as hell. God, imagine what these sick Germans do with all the rotting caskets they dig up every year. Retarded country that has no value for the sanctity of human life and death. And BTW - it's illegal to keep the ashes of a loved one and open casket funerals are also illegal in Germany. Everything is illegal in Germany.
if Germany is a first world country, please explain how any area that is not "german" does not have paved roads?
germans don't understand the concept of boundaries
in fact they enjoy pushing foreigner's boundaries for a little power trip
that's the only power they can get out of being jealous they were raised in this prison
Berlin is the prime example of “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” except the book you found in a box on the street and there were bed bugs nesting in it
Hitler must be rolling in his grave with all these auslanders everwhere
The reason why Berlin is poop is because people think it’s a paradise. There is no place on earth like it. Well kids, you can’t have highs without lows. Look around at all the scowling faces and at everyone’s lives around you. Nobody is thriving except the tourists, newcomers and maybe an occasional german. The reality of the place is that it is dark and sick, but they cover it up with fanfare and drugs. It’s a void.
Why is my name on my doorbell with the exact location of my apartment in the building? I want privacy. This is creepy
AND in this fuckking country litterally ANYONE can buy ANYTHING online 'auf rechnung' so basically just giving a name and adress as mean of payment (to pay upon receiving the products and the bill). And this is how, a few years ago, some clever jerk ordered some overpriced sneakers for a total of 600 € under MY NAME and MY ADRESS. He just had to pick up the parcel as soon as it was delivered at my neighbor's (because I am basically never at home when delivery guy comes), I guess he could see via online tracking where the parcel had landed and YES, my idiot neighbor gave a parcel under the name of his female neighbor to a male stranger he had never seen before without asking anything. So I, without knowing what had hapened, see the delivery notice in my mail box a few days later, wonder what it can be because I don't remember having order anything, go up the neighbor who tells me 'someone' already picked it up. In the moment I assume the whole thing might have just been a weird mistake but then, a few weeks later I get a bunch of inkasso letters urging me to pay for those fuckking sneakers. Of course I never paid anything, filed a complaint at the police station, the officer was extremely retarded and didn't seem to understand what had hapened. Fortunately I left the city a few months afterwards, never heard from it again but I guess my Schufa must be brilliantly fuckked up now.
The kind of things that can ONLY happen in Berlin. I am still full of rage when I think back about it.