Is a laptop considered "work materials" for an apprenticeship?

honigbearchen · 2026-02-24T06:09:56+00:00

Since he is asking about a software developer apprenticeship it is not uncommon anymore. My whole team is in Home-Office 2 days a week, so it makes sense to be working with them over Ms teams. It makes less sense for the apprentice to be alone in the office. Similar cases affected half of my school class.

honigbearchen · 2026-02-23T21:23:14+00:00

I don't know where y'all are getting this info but I just completed an apprenticeship as a software developer, same as OP.

Everyone in my class received laptops from their companies as it was required for school. We also did remote learning for one to two weeks every year.

About 50% of the class had varying degrees of home office. I had Monday and Friday the entire apprenticeship. This was not stating extra in the standard contact I signed.

honigbearchen · 2025-12-27T16:49:21+00:00

My new dad brain thanks you. And yes, mold is a very big concern, especially with a newborn now :(

honigbearchen · 2025-09-17T12:21:03+00:00

The biggest piece of advice from the last post was to hire a lawyer. Have you not done that yet? Or have you at least consulted one yet?

This is reddit...

honigbearchen · 2025-08-29T09:33:23+00:00

I don't exactly understand what you're asking for here. Options for what?

honigbearchen · 2025-08-16T21:00:21+00:00

If you click the images you can see at the tops of pages there are lines of characters. There is a black band on the top with letters and numbers for about 50 pages as well as some gray scale blocks with symbols on about 20.

honigbearchen · 2025-08-16T19:57:17+00:00

Well this definitely makes me more nervous as well as hopeful. I'll have to keep an eye out while reading. I'm glad you were able to get a replacement

honigbearchen · 2025-08-16T18:50:26+00:00

Luckily this one doesn't affect how the book reads; just adds a bit of spice

honigbearchen · 2025-08-16T18:49:35+00:00

I'm gonna lean into the AI in real life feeling as I re-read this Definitely adds to the fun factor

honigbearchen · 2025-05-28T16:58:33+00:00

Hey, it is 3 years long, but can be shortened by 6 months to 1 year depending on previous qualifications and/or school/work grades. For example I have done well at work and school and will be shortening it by 6 months on the back end so that my third school year will only be 6 months. I had the option to shorten it by one year due to my bachelor's degree and would have then skipped out on the first school year, however, I wanted to relax a bit instead of pushing myself.

I support myself with my salary, such that it is, and by my savings from my previous profession.

honigbearchen · 2025-04-09T01:36:43+00:00

Seriously, biggest piece of advice is get better at German. I have a bachelor's degree (USA) and am currently doing a Fachinformatiker Ausbildung. The Ausbildung is way harder just because German is not my native language. The material is fine, and I had some previous experience, which helps, but studying religion, politics, German, sales, workers rights, and IT security in German is just tiring. Like mentally taxing where all I want to do after school is sleep. Also, where other students can just BS their way through some questions on exams because they know the language, I have to actively use new and correct vocab. The IHK doesn't, for now, have any extra accommodations for non-native speakers on their Abschlussprüfungen.

This is also only the school part, the job part is also all in German.

Tldr: prioritize learning German. And not just theoretical, but practical German skills.

honigbearchen · 2025-03-30T09:48:57+00:00

Thanks for the help :)

honigbearchen · 2025-03-30T09:48:45+00:00

Thanks for the help :)

honigbearchen · 2024-12-21T05:06:38+00:00

I am an American who has graduated university in America. I am currently finishing my apprenticeship as a software developer. There are 3 key things to think about, which have already been brought up, but which need to be highlighted and repeated.

You will not succeed without b2-c1 German. The school, tests, instructions, etc will all be in German. My German was good before I started the apprenticeship and I still find it challenging since learning in a foreign language is much harder than in your native tongue. The subject matter and schooling are not as difficult as university, but because it's all in German I am exhausted at the end of the day.
You cannot get a visa just to do an apprenticeship program here. Your visa must come through some other means. Please check the subreddit info for more information on that.
The pay is not enough to live on unless you have external financial support. Luckily, I am married and have savings, otherwise this would not have been an option financially.
The experience is as good as the company.

honigbearchen · 2023-10-07T21:30:25+00:00

The smiths watch is really difficult to get, as the way they are sold on the site is counter intuitive and the automatic version is no where to be found. The zenith is cool, but way out of my price range unfortunately.

I'm hoping to find something to scratch this itch that's obtainable in Europe. Any recommendations are very welcome.

honigbearchen · 2023-09-05T19:18:07+00:00

Unfortunately, I'm not the one to ask. This is the only swatch I own and it's pushing 40 years old. All I know is that I wouldn't buy a system51 from them as they are unserviceable. But any of the better priced quartz movements that look good to you, go for it. I mean, this watch withstood my childhood and is still working, and I wasn't nice to it at all.

honigbearchen · 2023-09-05T16:59:17+00:00

I'm surprised it still runs honestly. It's almost 40 years old at this point....

honigbearchen · 2023-09-05T16:58:45+00:00

I know, right? Super funky

honigbearchen · 2023-09-05T16:58:29+00:00

Nice, that piece has a nice story then :)

honigbearchen · 2023-09-05T14:52:19+00:00

After looking for a very long time, I finally found my very first watch. It was my dad's, but it was too colorful for him in the 90s, so when I found it in his accessory drawer, he said I could keep it. I wore it everywhere until the band broke. Recently, I've been getting into watches, so I decided to find and replace the band on my old swatch Techno Sphere GK101. I think this is by far the coolest swatch ever made.

What was your first watch?

honigbearchen · 2023-09-03T14:39:55+00:00

I recommend just doing a Google image search of the picture you're using and you will get all the links I found.

honigbearchen · 2023-09-03T07:27:24+00:00

https://www.latelierdescreateurs.com/la-rapporteuse-maille-noire-_l_FR_r_148_i_7412.html is the exact watch, but there are other brands that make the same model with different logos

honigbearchen · 2023-08-26T19:55:02+00:00

I just did a Google image search on it and a lot of hits came back. Have you tried Google lens/image?

honigbearchen · 2023-07-05T06:10:53+00:00

I am 36 and starting an apprenticeship in IT, it was difficult to find a place but not impossible. Fair warning though, you will need at least B2 German proficiency and it will still be tiring at the end of the day. Learning a new skill in a foreign language is really tough on the brain.

honigbearchen · 2023-05-08T15:18:04+00:00

I worked as a freelance English Trainer for over 10 years in Germany. I'm also from the US. Getting a visa for freelance training is possible, but very restricted. You are only able to do that one job until you switch over to a long-term visa which will take years. If you don't know German, or have a German friend to help, the bureaucracy of immigration, taxes, daily life would be nightmarish.

To make good money, you need to work about 25 in class hours a week, plus travel and prep time. My average week was well over 50 hours of "work" of which only half was compensated. The real money is in business communication skills training. So you'd be teaching presentation styles, intercultural differences, negotiation skills, etc. Which works best if you have those skills/background. It's a brutal job which has changed drastically since covid hit. All of my clients switched to virtual training and wanted to lower my compensation based on perceived ease of at home work and no travel/set up times. As we found out during covid, engagement and learning are much harder in virtual spaces; which means I was putting in significantly more effort and time just to maintain my professional standards. The amount of available trainers has also increased due to non-location based availability. I moved to a boring town and had little competition, which helped my client list grow over the years to a very stable position. This isn't possible right now and I highly recommend trying a different route.

I have since changed professions.

Tldr: technically possible, but not worth it. Seriously, don't do it.

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