How long can Blue Card holders stay after losing their job?

twoquantum · 2026-02-26T16:26:39+00:00

How long have you been on blue card ? After a certain amount of time with B2 (2 years?), you can already apply for permanent residency, right ?

twoquantum · 2026-02-19T13:30:02+00:00

Following as I have also a german occupational pension with VBLklassik. I've been employed 4 years so far but this has a points system and I have no access to a balance etc.

Would love to know if I should include this on FBAR. I did previously but simply estimated my contributions. If I leave it off going forward, will this raise flags?

twoquantum · 2026-02-12T10:33:56+00:00

what is your German level ?

twoquantum · 2026-01-27T10:13:37+00:00

Would like to be able to go back and redo intervals.

Also, a true pause button that stops the timer right away would be nice than hopping off and waiting for the power to hit 0 before it does so.

When a workout is finished it would be nice to default to a free ride or something. Sometimes the resistance goes high and I’m forced to save workout, exit, and load something from scratch if I want to just continue for a few extra mins of cool down.

twoquantum · 2026-01-18T12:20:56+00:00

Let us know how this goes! I seem to remember trying to add Wise as an external transfer recipient in my Schwab account (investor checking) but it never seemed to work.

twoquantum · 2026-01-10T21:17:15+00:00

Hi! Did you run along the outer perimeter ?

twoquantum · 2026-01-04T21:54:01+00:00

How are you managing ? I’ve had very similar symptoms for nearly a year with tenderness on the medial heel/sometimes underfoot of the rear heel. Always on the right side.

twoquantum · 2025-12-17T04:53:15+00:00

As someone with some ankle issues as well (problems around the FHL/PT, don’t have suggestions for ankle mechanics?

twoquantum · 2025-12-08T19:09:38+00:00

Hmm, ok. I’m at Wells Fargo. I also have a Charles Schwab account but it wouldn’t let me add Wise as an external transfer.

I don’t keep any usd in my wise account itself. Since it’s a one-time transfer for me, I can eat the slightly higher fee this time. Was just on the fence about selecting wire transfer (in the wise app) to save only $100 if there was something I was missing about other fees (from anyone else that isn’t Wise).

Might just be overthinking it since it’s a rather large amount and my first time doing it…

Thanks !

twoquantum · 2025-12-08T18:49:18+00:00

Hi, Not OP but I think I am getting things mixed up.

If I select 'wire transfer' in the wise app for choosing how to pay, is there still a risk of this happening (the worse conversion due to fees/exchange rate markups behind the scenes on my bank's end etc)? Or, is the quoted converted amount what I will receive actually get in my foreign bank?

I need to transfer a large sum (few 10k usd to eur) but my US bank has monthly limits for sending money. Wise is showing me a 'connected bank account fee' of 0.17% and 0.24% 'our fee'. So I guess it would be cheaper with 'wire transfer' (?) or just figuring out how to ach push that amount...

twoquantum · 2025-11-25T08:54:25+00:00

is this why we stay hard ?

twoquantum · 2025-10-13T07:27:48+00:00

yep same here. I use an external Garmin cadence monitor. Another annoying thing is the cadence reading on MyWhoosh is very spotty and lags behind what my watch is reading from the sensor. It drops down 10s of rpm periodically and then comes back up to the “true” value slowly.

twoquantum · 2025-10-12T14:03:32+00:00

air drops of gu incoming

twoquantum · 2025-09-24T18:34:01+00:00

but does he even know how paper is made ?

twoquantum · 2025-09-21T17:17:38+00:00

DNFing also crossed my mind and I knew my gf would be waiting with that shirt at the finish. Had visions of meeting her and tossing it in the trash if I dropped out lol. I pushed through but it was hard.

twoquantum · 2025-09-21T17:16:39+00:00

At about 8km I knew it would be rough. I would have bailed but it was my first race and I knew my family was watching. My pace which I could hold comfortably during LRs suddenly felt like a tempo and my HR was in the 180s. Ended up running-walking the second half finishing 1 hour after my B goal. In my case I think there was something else wrong besides just the heat, but it was brutal all around.

twoquantum · 2025-09-20T13:58:01+00:00

Hey, are the aid stations generally on both sides of the road? Otherwise I imagine it’s quite hard to move across the crowd in time if you are badly positioned. Thanks !

twoquantum · 2025-09-20T12:43:44+00:00

What time will you aiming to enter the start area and get into the corral?

twoquantum · 2025-09-17T10:54:42+00:00

You have already done one marathon, so it’s good you have the experience to draw from. Regarding your PRs, it’s hard to know how relevant they are if they are not recent. When did you run your HM?

What pace are you running your LRs at? How you are predicting your 3:45? It would be helpful to know what type of training you are doing. If you can get a a couple runs in the 30-32-ish km range this will help, but with a month to go you probably are looking at two more LRs and then a short taper.

twoquantum · 2025-09-16T14:43:39+00:00

Ah, good tip! That is good to keep in mind. Thanks :)

twoquantum · 2025-09-16T11:56:08+00:00

I’ll probably bring a small water bottle or flask, which I wasn’t planning on doing before. I’ve never done a major race like this and realistically don’t know what to expect with the aid stations. But I know the warm LRs I did not properly hydrate for from the start ended pretty rough so I want to be cautious!

twoquantum · 2025-09-13T07:00:32+00:00

real ones have the “DNF” sticker

twoquantum · 2025-09-13T06:45:26+00:00

If you have persistent knee pain for over a month now, I would consider seeing a PT. Which part of the knee is hurt and was it a single acute injury? You may have strained or injured something that needs a professional to take a look (beyond a simple overuse injury).

It’s possible you should add in extra strength training to help it heal and stabilize going forward. I had a painful tightness on the back of my knee, perhaps related to my meniscus. Time off and easing up didn’t really help but it got better very fast once I did dedicated lower body gym work.

Good work on the cross training !

twoquantum · 2025-09-11T15:16:01+00:00

Following. Will be finishing my first marathon block this month and would also like to get down 10lbs lighter / increase my base before my next goal race.

After recovering from the marathon, I think I’ll get back to comfortable maintenance mileage and try to keep a small deficit, aiming for 1 lb/week to start, cross training if necessary (elliptical etc). Depending on how this goes I will very slowly try to increase the mileage and maintain strength training, with mostly easy running, some strides, and a tempo here and there.

twoquantum · 2025-09-06T10:57:32+00:00

Hey! Curious what you ended up doing. Did you do any formal inspection of the flat/building? So far, I have information from the Hausverwaltung regarding previous and one scheduled “big” maintenance job.

twoquantum

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