...
> Well, I do not receive any unemployments aids at all. As soon as I
> learned that they are not interested in promoting me to a new job
> instead of paying my unemployness I told them they could stick their
> money where the sun doesn't shine... If my wife wouldn't work I'd be
> living right under some bridge now.
=-0
>
> > (believe me, this is true), and 40% of the rest silently disappear once
> > they hear they won't be millionaires in a couple of months.
> > Ok, I understand that you are among the remaining 10% - but for me it's
> > very hard to imagine that you cannot find a job in the SW business
> > somewhere in Germany - even if it's only a Helpdesk serviceman, but a
> > job is a job and if you know how to install Linux on a PC, you're
> > more advanced than 99% of your collegues.
>
>
> Well, I know there are plenty of jobs out there, but either you are
> expected to
> be an IT pro or they are somewhere else. Here in Berlin it seems to be
> impossible to get some job. No, not even at Vobis. I wrote them all, I
> placed adds in the newspapers and on online job adverts. No luck.
> It is not that I am some computer newbie: I have been building computers
> myself (for me and my wife) for some years now, repair others, know what
> it takes to install, configure and administrate Windows NT WS, Linux,
> FreeBSD, BeOS, Solaris. I have a small network over here which runs with
> NT, 98 and Linux. My English isn't that bad.
> "Ah, no degree, no official training? We are so sorry, but...".
Well, I give a **** about degrees really. I don't have one myself because
after 2 sessions at a German university, I found that it was pretty useless
what they were talking about there - I have never seen so much theory that
could not be used for anything else except other theories ;)
> > We're really having a hard time to get qualified people here - even
> > for such subtle tasks like answering on the telephone.
>
> Well, looks like I've chosen exactly the wrong place to dwell...
Well, we are about 50 km outside of Berlin, so in the next couple of
years it could well be that we can employ more people - especially
people who know how to install Linux or FreeBSD and how to insert
a CD-R into a drive or create an ISO image ;)
Please feel free to send us your papers early next year or so ---
if we are still here chances are good that we need some more personal ;)
>
...
> > I cannot find your order here ... I will double-check this Monday.
> > As I said, we did have some problems in the past, but this should
> > improve now.
>
> Well, ok. I'll give it another try as soon as Debian 2.2 will be out.
> Forget about 2.1. With M6 being out and having to rewrite the HTML
> version of the aolm-FAQ my time is filled up ;-).
ok
The Mandrake will probably be available Thursday or Friday - depends
on the speed of our CD-Burners. We have loads of preorders already
even though the delivery time is 2 weeks on our web page ;)
...
>
> No offense was meant, but I keep hearing what you wrote all the time and
> I find that - hm - annoying from time to time.
Well, you shouldn't be too serious about (black) jokes =)
Try to cheer up and be more optimistic - you should consider the situation
your future employer is in - would you want to employ someone who is
pessimistic and depressive all day ? Probably not.
But we should probably continue discussion outside of this mailing list now,
I don't want to disturb people more than necessary..
Best Regards
Bernd Hentig
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