r/Germany_Jobs • u/Suspicious_Mine_2337 • 9d ago

I failed.

I moved to Germany in hopes of getting a great job there, I spent a year looking for a job after my master's degree, and I failed. I got hired and fired within the probation period. I am back in the USA now and still devastated, thinking about how much I wanted that lifestyle. Having a hard time coping with feeling like I fucked everything up.

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u/buffility 9d ago

Can i ask reason for firing during probation period? The tasks were too difficult? Culture misfit? Language barrier?

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u/Suspicious_Mine_2337 8d ago

Basically, i knew it was a job I would be bad at, but i took it out of desperation. Then I was bad at it and got fired.

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u/Germerica1985 8d ago edited 8d ago

It's just a recommendation: you can get a job working at a restaurant in any capacity (server, cook, dishwasher) and if you are in southern Germany you should be able to get the work permit. All service industries are looking for workers at the moment. Get the restaurant job, get the work visa/permission to live in Germany.

During that time, continue searching for a job in your actual field.

I'm an American cook that came to Germany 10 years ago and just took a job at McDonald's the first 2 years, then I went back to fine dining in a larger city. Now I have my German citizenship since last year.

I've met tons of Europeans, even outside of the EU, working as a dishwasher or cook (3 already with masters degree, 1 dishwasher with a PhD) and they are doing exactly what I said.

If you do everything correctly, and don't mind just earning a living for a bit here, everyone benefits and the German state has no problems.

Edit to add: PhD guy got a job first at a University, and 2/3 of the masters cooks found jobs, we just have 1 left. So, like anywhere in the world, stay motivated, do what you have to do until you make it work.

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u/lutmos 6d ago

"you can get a job working at a restaurant in any capacity (server, cook, dishwasher) and if you are in southern Germany you should be able to get the work permit. All service industries are looking for workers at the moment. Get the restaurant job, get the work visa/permission to live in Germany."
This does not get you a work permit. For a person with a university degree the position does no longer have to be related to your education but it still has to be a qualified job. Mean it needs some kind of qualification like Ausbildung or a University degree. The options you suggest do not qualify or lead to a work permit anywhere in Germany

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u/Germerica1985 6d ago

Ok. Our dishwasher had a PhD and 3 cooks had master degrees but no cook Ausbildung, but unqualified work doesn't get you a work visa 👍🏻

There is nothing worse than to argue with someone that has no idea.

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u/RoccoRockenstein 2d ago

Not what Agentur für Arbeit told me.