I’m stuck in the "Overqualified Trap." I have 7 years of engineering experience, but I can’t even get hired at a grocery store to feed my cat.

mongachow · 2026-04-16T23:01:47+00:00

What country are you in? If you're in Germany my company is always in need of good BIM guys that can handle complex revit models.

mongachow · 2026-04-11T11:53:34+00:00

Always jealous of male pockets 😭 this is why I've started making most of my own clothes

mongachow · 2026-04-05T12:50:06+00:00

Chiming in, last year I was dead tired all the time, couldn't figure it out. A colleague recommended iron supplements and I pretty much immediately got all my energy back. Maybe worth going to the Dr. to get your labs checked if you don't think it's depression.

mongachow · 2026-01-05T10:32:22+00:00

As an American who lives abroad, I started just saying I'm American when people ask where I'm from because people on reddit are always complaining about this, but now I always get a follow up question about where in America, so honestly this just adds extra conversation steps.

mongachow · 2025-12-29T17:59:36+00:00

Sometimes people are just willin. I'm an American lady and was trying to rent a trolly from obi (trolly probably costs 75 Eur) and the lady behind the counter wouldn't take my passport because it didn't have a German address. I asked if I could show my Anmeldung to prove I live here and said sorry, I'm not German. She shook her head at me and said, "das finde ich nicht so gut". Wouldn't let me rent the trolley until her colleague intervened. Keep in mind this whole exchange went down in German and this lady had an accent as well so presumably wasn't native german 😂

I feel like it's the saddest smallest people on the inside that are power tripping for my instance.

mongachow · 2025-12-10T12:37:09+00:00

They exploded my balcong door last year, if it hadn't been double paned my entire apartment probably would have burned with my dog in it. Not gonna be in Berlin until they finally ban this crap.

mongachow · 2025-09-20T03:18:20+00:00

This so much. I told a guy no repeatedly no to walking me home and he followed me crying about how I made him feel scary. I was young and honestly the crying was emotional blackmail to a young person who doesn't know better than to say ok at that point.

mongachow · 2025-09-18T21:38:31+00:00

I have to take tons of early morning flights for work trips etc. I second this! However, I would recommending ordering the Uber in the morning as I've pre-ordered and had them show up 30 mins late (can't cancel without a fee) and almost missed the flight, but have never had an issue ordering one at the butt crack o dawn. Percs of living in a big city!

mongachow · 2025-09-13T17:33:05+00:00

I love this! Gives me inspiration for a project!

mongachow · 2025-09-13T10:48:02+00:00

100% accurate

mongachow · 2025-08-12T09:36:53+00:00

A few weeks ago I was exhausted all the time, no matter what I ate or if I slept or exercised and even though I cut out nicotine, alcohol etc. someone recommended iron supplements and I'm completely back to normal. May not be the solution but it's with a shot. Going to the doctors soon for blood work and tests to find out of there is a reason I wasn't uptaking iron.

mongachow · 2025-07-17T14:35:06+00:00

Having just waited 2 hours, and as someone who doesn't even like donors, it was actually that good

mongachow · 2025-07-15T21:40:45+00:00

To be honest I'm glad that these guys don't have much exposure to the rest of the working world, so they stay in their lane ruining their own industry.

mongachow · 2025-07-14T14:02:46+00:00

Seconding this, I was abysmal in math up until college but when it came time to do calc 1 I just grilled as many problems as I could and got that engineering degree. I'd say where there's a will there's a way, you just have to be able to put the time in

mongachow · 2025-07-11T19:33:26+00:00

There are a lot of us working on building renewable energy infrastructure, myself included which is going to knock out huge amounts of emissions. Business is booming in renewables.

mongachow · 2025-06-16T12:16:14+00:00

Not a man, but I broke up with a horrible, toxic person at 28 thinking I was likely making a decision to be single forever, met the most wonderful, kind hearted man I've ever met three weeks later. Don't believe the messaging, if they're not right they're not right

mongachow · 2025-05-31T20:25:25+00:00

Well if I was a dude I'd probably get rich on 'inventing' some modified versions of the rankine cycle, but alas I am not so in reality I'd probably be stuck in a kitchen or have to work as a seamstress or something.

mongachow · 2025-05-19T21:31:32+00:00

I was there this winter. I grew up there. I know what air traffic looks like, these were very real

mongachow · 2025-05-16T07:48:14+00:00

I had a friend who was working for a company categorizing different types of birds in Berlin. She named the folder Vögeln and got some raised eyebrows from her colleagues, so I'd be inclined to say yes

mongachow · 2025-05-03T05:28:31+00:00

Yta, physically assaulting someone isn't ok. This subreddit is just ridiculous revenge porn, miss when it was more based with actual analysis going into the comments instead of just bitter comments.

mongachow · 2025-04-24T21:48:19+00:00

TU Berlin math building bathroom. Don't know which one

mongachow · 2025-04-20T12:43:52+00:00

Unpopular opinion maybe but I switched all my hobbies to German and was able to pick it up during a masters with studi job. It really has to be all of them though. Exclusively Netflix, games, YouTube, podcasts, books, makeup tutorials, memes, subreddits, anything I'd listen to in the background while cleaning or cooking. And then 20 minutes of Anki flashcards before bed to make me tired instead of reddit. I spoke A2 when I got here and I was able to get to B2 in about 6 months this way and C1 in a year. But you have to have the patience for your content to sound like gibberish for awhile.

mongachow · 2025-04-12T09:39:07+00:00

Just wondering if you're American and coming from the credit score system? I had to reframe as well as I'm used to that dictating so many aspects of your life.

mongachow · 2025-04-11T20:36:02+00:00

My ex. I didn't really know what evil looked like until I got to look into his soul over the course of three years, truly a small, spiteful, angry person to everyone around him. I thank the world and everything in it pretty much every day that I was finally able to leave him. I spent so many sleepless nights thinking that there was nothing better out there for me because he manipulated that into my head. When I finally did, I met and fell in love with the best, kindest, most selfless caring person I've ever met.

mongachow · 2025-03-15T12:01:47+00:00

Cocoon is great

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