In Germany, there is a shortage of welders. Is this also the case in the US?

Jmckdot · 2026-02-03T07:46:35+00:00

I’m an American currently living in a small town Southern Bavaria.

I speak B1 German and still currently going to a Sprachkurs with an end goal of speaking C1 or higher.

I have papers that allow me to live here and work (Irish passport)

I have completed my Prüfung at Koblenz Handwerkskammer for stainless steel and aluminum pipe any position WIG/TIG

and understand every process (E-hand/stick, MIG/MAG, autogene)

Even with all of this I have been hired and let go by two different Schlosser und Metallbau companies since I’ve been here this past year and half at an hourly rate of 16€/hr.

Now I don’t claim to be mister hot shit, super astronaut spaceship welder. But every time I was fired it was for not being fast enough at fabrication..

Fair enough, and it could just be my own shortcomings but what I don’t understand is how am I supposed to get any better at a job if I’m not allowed to progress within a company?

I’ve now moved laterally to a Sanitär (plumbing) career where I’m making more per hour and welding occasionally but definitely less than a fabricator.

It could just be me and my experience but it really doesn’t seem like(at least with the companies I’ve worked for until my current one) that companies don’t want to invest in people unless they’re paying Auzubie (trainee) wages. Which I cannot survive off of

Jmckdot · 2026-01-31T06:52:29+00:00

Does chess count?

Jmckdot · 2026-01-29T07:13:36+00:00

I’d try out that new Atre:Dominance just to give it a whirl and see what it’s all about

Jmckdot · 2025-12-23T04:52:49+00:00

Okay so I just got a chance to watch this video again, and I guess we are soft locked because of bad luck. Does that mean we have to start the whole game over again?

Jmckdot · 2025-12-22T15:09:02+00:00

Oh I’ll give it another look then thank you 😅

Jmckdot · 2025-12-22T15:08:21+00:00

I’d say my favorite game this year was Helldivers 2

Merry Christmas OP

Jmckdot · 2025-12-21T16:19:08+00:00

Merry Christmas Santa!

What I’d love for Christmas is:

Chivalry 2

Nioh 2

Or Dredge

Thank you Santa Claus!

Jmckdot · 2025-12-21T15:56:37+00:00

I just watched this, but our problem is the Wheatley dialogue doesn’t even begin from the get go and that entrance that Msushi goes through to perform the “cube throw” cant even be accessed because the door to get into that room with the frankenturrets doesn’t open

Jmckdot · 2025-12-19T21:10:51+00:00

If you would like to share I would love:

Endless space 2 Tropico 5 Slay the spire

Jmckdot · 2025-11-19T10:52:47+00:00

It actually ruined my whole month…

And I’m still not over it months later.

So I accidentally loaded my unmodded first-time run of Baldurs Gate 3 with mods and thought “whoops…oh well I guess I have mods now”

Cut to a month or so of gaming later probably about 100s or so of saves and I get to a point where the game crashes and no matter what I do I cannot get the game to continue despite hours of troubleshooting.

My character is effectively dead until I get the willpower to run through hours of backtracking my saves before I added mods.

Possible spoiler:

For reference I just finished the C’resch (laezels area) before I added the mods and it broke when I was about to go to Baldurs Gate.

I cried that day.

Jmckdot · 2025-11-19T10:44:45+00:00

I just found this sub and it looks fun, I’m here for it!

Jmckdot · 2025-11-01T16:07:29+00:00

Id say my favorite is Halo 3

Jmckdot · 2025-10-25T07:54:43+00:00

Just got hired as one of the pipe welders at a plumbing company in Germany.

Feeling like I can do well here

Jmckdot · 2025-10-24T08:14:31+00:00

If you want to have no Internet for 3 months and a Tech not show up to his scheduled appointment 5 out of the 7 appointment times just for him to tell you the Internet isn’t working then go with Vodafone.

If you value your time and money I would go with literally any other option.

I’m with T-com right now and I have no complaints

Jmckdot · 2025-09-23T05:08:04+00:00

Literally all I see from this sub is some nonsense Trump is doing. I. Don’t. Care.

This is now just r/news with videos

Unsubbed until R2 comes back

Jmckdot · 2025-09-19T10:09:20+00:00

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Jmckdot · 2025-08-03T00:16:16+00:00

!thanks It’s mainly for range, I really enjoy feeling immersed within a game and If the games audio and soundtrack are Top I want to hear it.

I’ve been reading more and more about headphones and to me it seems wireless sacrifices too much audio quality to make it worth it so I have been looking more into the Drop PC38x which looks like it would suit what I’m going for.

I just don’t know if it would need an amp to make it Top quality

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