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  • Jacking it all in and moving to the Alps
  • alpin
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    The building trade may be different, are you employed full time, or just move between short term contracts?

    i was employed by the firm. i wasn't paid the same as the other guys as i didn't have a German qualification. they were earning 14€/hr, me 12.50€/hr. if i had wanted to earn more i'd have had to spend three years doing an Ausbildung. if after that i wanted to earn more than 14€/hr i'd have to spend 30-40K€ of my money and give up 2-3 years of work/life to complete my Meister.

    any over time worked wasn't paid as such, but given as holiday when the firm didn't have any work on (you couldn't take the 30 hours overtime from last month and take a week off when it suited you).

    i figured it wasn't the life for me.

    where in Germany are you?

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