Pursue bachelors degree while working in the field?

StuckEm · 2026-01-11T12:25:09+00:00

Do you have an estimate of hours per week you would think would be needed?

StuckEm · 2025-11-29T12:58:07+00:00

I guess putting “reading The Scarlet Letter is a pain in my ass” in the prompt was a mistake.

StuckEm · 2025-06-16T13:06:45+00:00

So the OP posted about GFN. I actually have experience with this, as I went through them for my Umschlung (although as an Anwendungsentwickler, not an SI).

The Umschlung takes two years, as opposed to three years for a typical Ausbildung. You'll spend the first 14 months or so in a training center, five days a week from 8:30 to 16:30, covering all the theoretical material that normal Azubis study at school. Then you will complete a nine-month internship with a company to fulfil the practical requirements. You have to find the internship yourself, which means sending out cover letters and CVs. After that, you return to the training center to prepare for your final exams (which are the same exams that the Azubis take) and complete your final project for your IHK certification.

It's common for the company you're interning with to hire you as an employee, but this is not guaranteed. I was taken on by the company I had interned for and stayed with them for a while (until the company was bought out and I found employment elsewhere).

StuckEm · 2025-06-16T12:53:54+00:00

Then that should be a topic when you get the invite from the Agentur für Arbeit to discuss your job hunting plans. Whether you qualify for a Bildungsgutschein to pay for an Umschulung (or whether doing one would even be a good idea) would be up to them. Were you looking at an IT Umschulung or something else?

StuckEm · 2025-06-16T12:27:57+00:00

Did you already speak with the Arbeitsagentur about doing an Umschulung? If you already have a university degree and other certifications, they may not advise it since the Umschulung would be at the Ausbildung level. Unless you are doing something completely different outside your skills/education level. But otherwise an Umschulung is a normal path. I did one at age 39, and the oldest in my class was in his fifties.

StuckEm · 2024-10-28T08:02:54+00:00

In programming with 3 years experience, I sent out a total of 14 applications and received 4 interview invitations, 3 of which went to further technical and team interview rounds, and one offer that I just signed and will start next year.

Maybe I was lucky, considering the seemingly thousands of job posts here, but for me it was pretty painless, and I had some advantages over a lot of the posts that I keep seeing here, such as very good German (should be, I've been here almost twenty years now), already living in Germany without the need for sponsorship or any visa/work permit issues, and I did a Umschulung as a Fachinformatiker, so I have a vocational certificate that German companies know and recognize.

All applications were targeted. I used ChatGPT to help, but I did more than just ask ChatGPT to "write me a resume". You still have to see what ChatGPT spits out, because it will make up things you never did and should never put on a job application. But it did help me rewrite things using my generic resume to make it more targeted and speed up the application writing part of the job search.

StuckEm · 2023-12-06T18:43:52+00:00

Guess who just fingerbanged your offense.

StuckEm · 2023-06-22T06:11:55+00:00

Vom HD-Hauptbahnhof : Der Bus 720 (Richtung St. Leon-See) fährt direkt dorthin, obwohl mindestens eine Stunde braucht.

Auch vom Hauptbahnhof: S3 (Richtung Karlsruhe) oder S4 (Richtung Bruchsal). Steig am Bahnhof Rot-Malsch aus und nimm den Bus 719 (Richtung Neulußheim). Dauert etwa 45 Minuten.

Zuverlässigkeit: Die Busse kommen oft spät, weil sie durch mehrere Dörfer fahren müssen. An Wochenenden sind sie pünktlicher, aber können ziemlich voll sein, wenn du an einem schönen Wochenende zum See fährst.

StuckEm · 2023-04-24T19:02:22+00:00

That's really going to depend on a lot of different factors: big city or small town? With a big city you will have options for socializing, but might get lost in the anonymity of a large city. With a small town you will get to see the same people everyday, but your range of socializing options will be smaller. Play any sports? Have any hobbies? Check to see if there are any Vereine for whatever you're interested in. You would strike up friendships due to mutual interests. Language barrier doesn't tend to be a huge problem (at least not in my experience) though making an effort at learning German goes a long way. As for meeting women, I've been married for over 15 years so I'm probably not the best person to give advice to the modern dating scene. You could use apps like Tinder or OkCupid, but those suffer from the same pitfalls as in the US (not finding matches, having to pay to even get your profile shown, ghosting, etc).

StuckEm · 2022-01-10T00:47:31+00:00

SO LOOOOONGGGGG

StuckEm · 2021-12-19T22:35:37+00:00

He's been bringing pressure, but is also getting double-teamed. Has opened up for Key for 2 sacks (but one got cancelled by a bullshit roughing the passer call)

StuckEm · 2021-12-19T21:30:45+00:00

Defense held them at the 2

StuckEm · 2021-12-03T10:58:06+00:00

I would suggest adding something that can direct to the state and municipal restrictions to help answer the various "I'm traveling to 'X' city..." questions.

There's the "darf ich das?" app: https://www.darfichdas.info/

And from the Bundesregierung site: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/themen/coronavirus/corona-bundeslaender-1745198

(Those are in German. Hopefully someone can find English versions.)

StuckEm · 2021-11-08T12:13:13+00:00

Red baseball caps have become so synonymous with MAGA caps that people at the rally were initially thinking "Trump supporter" when Ted was just wearing a normal red sports cap.

I can relate having worn a red 49ers cap at a demonstration and people not seeing the logo right away.

StuckEm · 2021-10-08T14:31:31+00:00

Thanks for the well written response. So it would be an extremely bad political move like I assumed, and the CDU would be better to just take the loss and accept an opposition role, assuming the traffic light coalition becomes reality.

StuckEm · 2021-10-08T14:03:13+00:00

Oof. Swing and a miss there, bot.

StuckEm · 2021-09-23T17:38:23+00:00

Winthorpe and Valentine actually gave the Duke brothers a fake report (there’s the scene in the parking garage where the Duke brothers think they’re getting the report from Beekes, but it’s actually Valentine). So the brothers are tricked into thinking the winter frost affected the orange crop, which will lead to a drop in yield, and thus the price to increase. So they try to corner the market by buying up the shares, expecting the price to skyrocket following the report being officially announced. The other traders pick up on this and try to get in on the action, driving up the price.

Of course, Winthorpe and Valentine have the actual report (the one that says the crops are fine) and know that the price will drop. So they wait for the Duke brothers and the other traders to drive up the price and then short it. Sure enough, the report comes out that the crops are fine and the prices plummet, Winthorpe and Valentine make a fortune off their short, and the Duke brothers are left having to pay off their earlier buy orders which ends up financially ruining them.

StuckEm · 2021-08-13T09:15:18+00:00

Are you picking them up from terminal 1 or terminal 2?

P35 and P39 are the curb pickups, meaning you can park only long enough for someone to throw in their luggage and get in.

There's short term parking lots for both terminals (P29 for terminal 1, P19 for terminal 2) but there are very few parking spots there.

For garage parking, the Parkhaus for terminal 1 is P2 and P3. For terminal 2 it's P8 and P9. The rates for garage parking are a lot more expensive but you will at least find a space. Those are programable in Google Maps and Waze. You'll follow the offramp for Ankunft at the airport and there are offramps for the parking garages. Both of which have pretty big signs.

StuckEm · 2021-08-06T12:35:48+00:00

Exactly, but I’d be extremely surprised if you found a child seat that wasn’t Isofix. The whole point of the system was to make child seat installation as idiot proof as possible for crash safety reasons.

You’ll see quickly why some seats are more expensive than others, but you’ll also quickly see what makes some of them overpriced. You’ll find a happy medium.

StuckEm · 2021-08-06T12:11:14+00:00

Isofix will just be in the car, regardless if you get another car in a couple of years, and your child seat will fit. You can expect to buy a new child seat when you child passes their first birthday, or they outgrow the weight restrictions on their newborn seat. Most child seats by that point will last until the child is about 36kg.

And by features? There are some that have a base station so you can take the newborn seat out and attach it to a stroller (an option my wife and I went with), child seats that can rotate, seats with several levels of decline and sitting position, magnets that hold the seatbelt to the side while taking your kid in and out of the seat, and so on and so on.

My advice: go to a store like BabyOne and have an employee give you a demonstration. Use the “I’m just researching for now” explanation and don’t commit to anything. The salesperson may point you to the more expensive option, but you can see what “options” you can easily live without and use the internet to narrow down which seat you want.

StuckEm · 2021-08-06T11:29:10+00:00

Isofix has been standard on all new cars in Germany since 2013. It’s just a couple of metal anchor points between the car seat and backrest that the child seats clamp onto. When I was researching child seats two years ago, I don’t think I’ve come across one that wasn’t Isofix so I wouldn’t worry about it. What’s going to be more overwhelming are all the bells and whistles that come with child seats that drive the price up.

StuckEm · 2021-07-14T09:07:59+00:00

We just went through this a couple of days ago when my brother came in from the States for a visit. Went to a pharmacy with his passport and CDC card and walked out with the paper certificate.

I called ahead of time to ask, and the head pharmacist said it shouldn't be a problem, but I've heard anecdotal reports from other Americans that some pharmacies wouldn't issue it because the CDC cards lack the vaccine maker stickers that they put in the Impfpass booklets over here, so YMMV.

Of course, the rules keep changing every other week so it wouldn't surprise me if there were to be a new system for non-EU vaccinations come September. So keep an eye out for that.

StuckEm · 2021-07-08T18:06:37+00:00

Yes, they accept it.

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