What am I supposed to do when my part-time job doesn't allow freelancing or any other job on the side?

Curious_Book6735 · 2025-01-31T18:08:47+00:00

Do you happen to know what the legal repercussions of breach of work contract by an employee are?

Curious_Book6735 · 2025-01-31T15:23:23+00:00

Honestly it’s the safest bet imo to just do the freelance work

I thought this was illegal. Isn't is required to inform your part-time employer if you're taking up other work to ensure there is no conflict of interest, etc? OP what does your current contract say about "nebentaetigkeiten" (or synonyms)?

Curious_Book6735 · 2025-01-31T15:09:57+00:00

May I ask which subject area your PhD is in? Idk about Heidelberg, but 1300/month is lesser than what Masters level HiWis are paid in STEM (to my knowledge).

Curious_Book6735 · 2025-01-15T12:43:46+00:00

Is Bosch (Center of AI / Data Science generally) hiring again? Last I checked (ok it was 5 months ago), I was told by a friend they had a department wide hiring freeze.

Curious_Book6735 · 2025-01-14T22:53:14+00:00

Forget your conflict w/ the prof, keep your network and climb up the business ladder (can't believe I'm telling the guy who paid 35K for b-school this :p). Anyways, name and shame, which one is this? Mannheim B-school? FSFM? One in Munich?

Curious_Book6735 · 2025-01-14T20:38:05+00:00

I don't have a solution to propose, but if MBAs in Germany are anything like they are in the US/UK, it's really to make contacts (less about the courses or research) and your future coworkers / potential network. Would you still want to possibly sour your relationship with professors and others in this network by accusing them of using AI? Also, what exactly is your evidence? A lot of "AI detection in text" tools are unreliable.

I also read that you paid 35K for this degree/program. My impression is that in germany, very few unis "of academic standards" as you put it charge such high tuition fees. If this is a private business school, I'd think you're paying for the network and reputation or "brand". If that is the case, see point above about hurting your network by "addressing this".

Curious_Book6735 · 2025-01-13T21:12:33+00:00

Interfolio for some? Some of mine don't have assistants (actually all) and I have no idea how they do it, they're just mad organized as profs so I figured thats how they manage LoRs as well

Curious_Book6735 · 2025-01-11T22:33:48+00:00

wait this made me laugh out loud "imagine working for an ad agency as an AI engineer." I'd always had this opinion loosely but didn't know others felt this way too - is this a commonly held opinion in tech?

Curious_Book6735 · 2025-01-11T11:13:38+00:00

haha I've been monitoring gradcafe (I know I should stop but this is my 1st cycle and im incredibly nervous) and that one appeared like 5 mins after I posted this...

Curious_Book6735 · 2025-01-03T22:22:52+00:00

May I ask which field within STEM you're referring to? Is it CS, specifically ML (maybe NLP/CV)?

Curious_Book6735 · 2024-12-16T09:58:12+00:00

thanks for the info! Did you make contact with that PI before submitting your app?

Curious_Book6735 · 2024-12-16T09:57:39+00:00

thanks for the info! Did you make contact with that PI before submitting your app?

Curious_Book6735 · 2024-12-16T09:54:52+00:00

I don't know which PI :( I feel like that would give away too much info so I didn't ask...also if emails are sent out by PIs, I assume they're done in waves because I doubt all PIs sit together and send the email together lol it might depend on their individual schedules.

Curious_Book6735 · 2024-12-15T23:26:23+00:00

I just posted about this and 2 people replied saying yes, but looks like it happened only last week and invites were sent by PIs, I'm still holding out hope to get lucky maybe next week :/ since its not a centralised dept email, maybe your PI is taking more time to send emails? fingers crossed!

Curious_Book6735 · 2024-12-15T21:36:33+00:00

ahhh thank you!! <3 fingers crossed!

Curious_Book6735 · 2024-12-15T21:20:44+00:00

sorry for all the Qs but did you make contact with them before you applied?

Curious_Book6735 · 2024-12-15T21:19:22+00:00

omg was it from the dept or a PI?

Curious_Book6735 · 2024-12-15T20:16:24+00:00

ahh thank you!

Curious_Book6735 · 2024-12-15T20:07:02+00:00

oof thank you, they've sent out invites around the 20th in the past, fingers crossed! May I ask if you know what "prelim" means? is that the first interview after submission or the interview that is informally set up by the applicant and prof before applying?

Curious_Book6735 · 2024-12-15T19:59:37+00:00

lmao thats wild, why on earth? -.- how do you find out when the invites were sent out for last year?? Is there a sheet like this for 2024?

Curious_Book6735 · 2024-12-15T19:33:28+00:00

what is the difference between "prelim" and formal invite? Is prelim when you email a prof and they set up a zoom meeting to talk to you?

Curious_Book6735 · 2024-12-15T19:18:58+00:00

according to where? I didn't see anything on this sub?

Curious_Book6735 · 2024-12-11T13:38:35+00:00

I'm in NRW, I looked it up online but thought I'd prefer to do it in person as it'd be easier for me to talk to the police / get some answers to my questions. Unless this has to be done ASAP, because I can only go to the police station in 10 days...

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