The Off Topic Topic

[Zanza]

Yeah sorry. With "starting" I meant "just arrived in Germany".    Most people I know working there did have previous experience.

Ok. No idea what exactly a "technician" is, but earning €50k doesn't seem to unlikely.

Average salaries per sector of industry (full-time employees, before taxes, without extra payments such as christmas or vacation or bonus):
http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1789/umfrage/durchschnittseinkommen-in-deutschland-nach-branchen/

[Iormlund]

I was thinking of anyone with some kind of higher education (not necessarily engineering/uni) who does reasonably complex technical work. The people I know do things like SAP consulting, high powered-laser commissioning, software development (both regular and industrial), project design/documentation ...

[Zanza]

SAP consultants with experience will make 70-120k, software development maybe 50-100k. No idea about the laser stuff, project documentation can be low-level administrative stuff or being the project manager with a huge range of possible incomes.

[The Brain]

SAP sucks sweaty man AIDS ass.

[Josquius]

Just walk?  How far is home?

60km as the crow flies.
I'd probably be getting home just about now.

Ugh...gross.

Just rent a room in a love hotel and sleep in a real bed.

...a manga cafe is gross but a love hotel isn't?

One has a clean bed and the other doesn't.

It sounds more comfortable (and more expensive) certainly.
But the choice of the word 'gross'....That applies far more to love hotels.
Plus going to a love hotel alone would really make me feel crappy. May as well go to a capsule hotel if I'm splashing out.

[Josquius]

SAP consultants with experience will make 70-120k, software development maybe 50-100k. No idea about the laser stuff, project documentation can be low-level administrative stuff or being the project manager with a huge range of possible incomes.

Wow. I really wish my job had let me have a go at SAP. That sounds lovely. I could support a full football team of kids on that.

[Caliga]

SAP is really big around here due to all of the local manufacturing.  Princesca uses SAP at work (she is in the alcohol manufacturing business).

[Liep]

A colleague just said 'see you later, honey' to me. In english. That was weird.

[Ed Anger]

She/he/it wants you. Bad.

[Ideologue]

Just walk?  How far is home?

60km as the crow flies.
I'd probably be getting home just about now.

Yikes.  I figured it was like 15km tops.

[CountDeMoney]

SAP is really big around here due to all of the local manufacturing.  Princesca uses SAP at work (she is in the alcohol manufacturing business).

SAP = BARF

And it's S.A.P.;  they hate it when it's called "SAP". 

[Josquius]

Just walk?  How far is home?

60km as the crow flies.
I'd probably be getting home just about now.

Yikes.  I figured it was like 15km tops.

If only it were so. Then I could have had a life these past months

[mongers]

Just went out to sit in the garden at dusk, to catch the swallows wheeling and screaming about the house; for some reason they do this for only 2-3 minutes shortly after sunset.   

[Grey Fox]

Got a WiiU for my birthday. That was unexpected.

[CountDeMoney]

Happy Birfday.