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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Braket: 2:22pm On Jul 14, 2018
chuksey1:


Hehe. Abeg e good say you run oo. Which kin work be that self. 8hours straight standing through out. Na punishment or na slavery? Nonsense

Abeg how much is the average pay per hour for these part time jobs

Lol, standing is not even the problem, but the stress attached isn't here.
No unskilled work is easy in Germany sha. Because most times they don't allow you to seat at all, but you get 1hour Pause.

I met a Chinese friend at the train station today, and she said she works in a shopping mall, but the only issue is that she doesn't seat grin grin.

The pay really depends on a lot of factors, whether it is through a job agent or direct jobs and the likes.

But mostly €9.50 through agencies sha. But it also depends on the work itself.

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Nobody: 7:22pm On Jul 14, 2018
Braket:
Thank you for the drama that happened while I was away. It was fun reading it and really eased my stressful week grin grin

I think it's safe to say that making one Euro here in Germany no be beans at all, coming from Nigerian work experience.

No time for playing.


Remember I mentioned how a journey of an hour turned to 4 stressful hours last week? The fact that I needed to pick something at home and head out again?

Well I was going home to pick my safety boot for a night shift I had. Little did I know I have not expressed the greatest stress yet.

Getting home to pick the safety boot and heading out again, I had no time to rest.

In short, I started the night shift work in a biscuit factory from 10pm to 6am.

What I did basically was packing 5 biscuits into a big pack, then send it to a taping machine and it rolls off to logistics department.

All these were done while standing.

I had to be fast because the biscuits won't stop coming so speed was need.
I was battling with a lot of things, the stress I expressed during the day, back pain, leg pain, hand pain, the pain of not closing my eyes since 5am that I work up.

In my mind, I was just cursing the owner of the biscuit factory grin and the day I showed interest in the job.

Shebi I said time was fast in Germany, nah line oh. The time is freaking slow when you have to work while standing.

Immediately my supervisor announces 5 minutes Pause, I dash out of the freaking place. But at that moment, the time gets faster and I report back to work.

In short, I worked myself out on Saturday and had to sleep all through Sunday, starving at some point.


Morale of the story cheesy.
When you hear the pay, it makes sense in naira. But please don't be fooled, everything goes back to the system.

If you have the mentality of coming to Germany to hustle with student visa, these are the kind of unskilled blood sucking jobs you will get and trust me, you will surely grow old very fast. And the painful part, half of your money goes back to the government who in turn pay them to their senior citizens and those without jobs that end up using it to smoke cigarette and drink beer, and still hate you for being black.

Funniest part, one will think a lot of people working these jobs will be foreigners. Nah lie oh, most of them are citizens.
This I think is the main reason they need skilled works and thereby making their education free to bring in people to fill the space.

Person wey get head no get cap.

That must have been stressful to do....
Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Nobody: 7:44pm On Jul 14, 2018
When you tell people abroad is not a bed of roses especially for unskilled work, they doubt!
Stories from Australia shows many Nigerians doing "muscle jobs"

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Braket: 9:32pm On Jul 14, 2018
Jigba:


That must have been stressful to do....


These few weeks have been really stressful for me.

Last Friday was another stressful day for me.

Everything was going smooth until I headed for the store, the genesis of the stress.

I always have this plan of heading to the store quickly and coming out within minutes, it has never happened oh cheesy

On getting to the shopping mall, the fire alarm tripped off, forcing everyone to come out. We all stood there for an hour before it was restored and allowed back in.

After getting in nah, I started stocking up for the weekend and the next week. Not until I got to the counter before I realized I had bought more than I can carry, and I didn't go along with a big bag embarassed plus I went out with a bicycle that has no basket. Double trouble embarassed

The worst part, I can't use the bus except I have to park the bicycle in town and come back to town to get the bicycle (I could have used the bus with the bicycle and my loads, but it's past the time I can take a bicycle bicycle on the bus).

I had no choice than to rugged myself home oh cry
The ride was so slow because of the too much weight on it, and some point, I had to push the freaking bicycle and the load, so freaking stressful cry.


Picture of how I hanged my small hand bag on the bicycle. Plus I had to carry a very heavy bag as well cry

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Nobody: 9:47pm On Jul 14, 2018
Braket:



These few weeks have been really stressful for me.

Last Friday was another stressful day for me.

Everything was going smooth until I headed for the store, the genesis of the stress.

I always have this plan of heading to the store quickly and coming out within minutes, it has never happened oh cheesy

On getting to the shopping mall, the fire alarm tripped off, forcing everyone to come out. We all stood there for an hour before it was restored and allowed back in.

After getting in nah, I started stocking up for the weekend and the next week. Not until I got to the counter before I realized I had bought more than I can carry, and I didn't go along with a big bag embarassed plus I went out with a bicycle that has no basket. Double trouble embarassed

The worst part, I can't use the bus except I have to park the bicycle in town and come back to town to get the bicycle (I could have used the bus with the bicycle and my loads, but it's past the time I can take a bicycle bicycle on the bus).

I had no choice than to rugged myself home oh cry
The ride was so slow because of the too much weight on it, and some point, I had to push the freaking bicycle and the load, so freaking stressful cry.


Picture of how I hanged my small hand bag on the bicycle. Plus I had to carry a very heavy bag as well cry

Lol at least you made it home cheesy. I'm guessing you didn't ride the bicycle, you just dragged it along with you.

I think you should buy a basket cause of next time.

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Braket: 10:07pm On Jul 14, 2018
Jigba:


Lol at least you made it home cheesy. I'm guessing you didn't ride the bicycle, you just dragged it along with you.

I think you should buy a basket cause of next time.
I rode the bicycle oh, but on the last gear and then dragged afterwards.
Basket makes it look girlish. grin cheesy

Between you should be done with exams now abi? Heard studienkolleg are the first to write exams.
How did your variable analysis go?

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Nobody: 10:15pm On Jul 14, 2018
Braket:

I rode the bicycle oh, but on the last gear and then dragged afterwards.
Basket makes it look girlish. grin cheesy

Between you should be done with exams now abi? Heard studienkolleg are the first to write exams.
How did your variable analysis go?

It doesn't look girlish lol grin.

Yea I'm done with exams. It was simple and I wrote well smiley.

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by MaryTD: 6:45am On Jul 15, 2018
Few month ago I have back pain and my chair was normal and have problem on seat that cause back pain. I changed my chair and use good recliner chair, Now I am fine.
Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by KendrickAyomide: 8:27am On Jul 15, 2018
chuksey1:


Hehe. Abeg e good say you run oo. Which kin work be that self. 8hours straight standing through out. Na punishment or na slavery? Nonsense

Abeg how much is the average pay per hour for these part time jobs
una lazy finish including braket, i shame for una. i work 12 hours morning and Night shift 7-7 at Guiness Benin city factory for less than a 100 dollar pay.. most of the time we stand. wtf

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by manneger2: 11:04am On Jul 15, 2018
Travelling abroad is not easy especially to do unskilled job, Germany is better, in Dubai once they have done your visa u can't stop the job till after some months or year depending on the contract, with Dubai hot weather, I will start Germany process when I finish my contract with this company, bro stay strong.

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by chrisb2r200: 2:08pm On Jul 15, 2018
Following....more grace to OP....meanwhile I will be heading to Berlin come September. I would need someone there or going to connect with. @Berliner . I hope u read this. Feel free to PM/mention @all
Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Braket: 2:13pm On Jul 15, 2018
KendrickAyomide:
una lazy finish including braket, i shame for una. i work 12 hours morning and Night shift 7-7 at Guiness Benin city factory for less than a 100 dollar pay.. most of the time we stand. wtf
grin grin. While I was doing the work, I was just thinking about how utilization dey Nigeria.

I have friends that are bricklayers and I am like we do the same thing but the pay is way different.

One of my friends here said he once worked at Guiness Benin city.

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Braket: 2:17pm On Jul 15, 2018
manneger2:
Travelling abroad is not easy especially to do unskilled job, Germany is better, in Dubai once they have done your visa u can't stop the job till after some months or year depending on the contract, with Dubai hot weather, I will start Germany process when I finish my contract with this company, bro stay strong.
There's light at the end of the tunnel for you bro, I followed Dubai thread when I still had time back then.

There's a Nigerian guy studying for his PhD here, he told me how it was hard for him to raise blocked account funds because of the working conditions in Dubai, but when God was ready to take him out, he was able to raise more than the funds within months and he went back to Nigeria to apply for his visa.
He told me that part of the money is still in his account because when he got to Germany, he got a scholarship that covered his studies after the first semester.

Morale of the story, don't give up bro.

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Braket: 2:37pm On Jul 15, 2018
chuksey1:
It appears round neck T-Shirts is very cheap over there cos thats what almost everyone rocks in the summer. Like how much do they go for there. And do they sell high quality secondhand clothes shoes and bags there at very fair rates. Or is it better we buy them from naija before coming over.

Cc. Braket
Cc. Jigba

My advice, grab everything you can grab in Nigeria or wherever you are before coming here.

Their fashion industry get as he be oh, alot of expensive rubbish. If Aba people get better finishing, they will beat these people hands down.
The sneakers I see here be like Aba made tongue, unlike USA where correct kicks dey. The only thing I like here is there jeans, buy two expensive jeans and you're very okay for the year or few months. A friend bought two jeans for €65. All the ones I came with from Nigeria, I am lookin for a way to dispose it.


Bag......... Everyone here carries backpack oh, even the very senior citizens, no matter the kind of work you do here, you must to have a backpack, some even have ones that has rollers grin.

Hence, bag is very expensive. I mean a small bag can cost as much as €200.

T shirt? You can get a better t-shirt in Nigeria if you go to some stores that sells quality. I will advise anyone to come buy jeans here,they are expensive yes but you don't need alot because they don't get dirty. I have only washed my jeans once tongue

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Braket: 2:38pm On Jul 15, 2018
LUCAS99 I see you oh cheesy
Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by LUCAS99: 2:44pm On Jul 15, 2018
Braket:
LUCAS99 I see you oh cheesy

Wetin I do Boss?

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by LUCAS99: 2:54pm On Jul 15, 2018
Braket:


Lol, standing is not even the problem, but the stress attached isn't here.
No unskilled work is easy in Germany sha. Because most times they don't allow you to seat at all, but you get 1hour Pause.

I met a Chinese friend at the train station today, and she said she works in a shopping mall, but the only issue is that she doesn't seat grin grin.

The pay really depends on a lot of factors, whether it is through a job agent or direct jobs and the likes.

But mostly €9.50 through agencies sha. But it also depends on the work itself.


Most unskilled Jobs here in the United States are the same way.

You stand on your feet for the entire 8 hours & only get a 30 minutes lunch break.

After a while I got used to it.

But the best job I had was a job as a Security Officer at a luxury condominium & office

The only thing I needed to do was to monitor the security Cameras & make sure that only authorized personel are allowed on the premises.

Sometimes I got bored of sitting for a long period of time & got up to walk around.

You also needed a Security Badge to scan inorder to access the elevator.

I was paid around $10.00/ hour.

I think I'm kinda spoiled now since I always look for jobs that lets me sit down for the entire duration of my shift.

And inorder to get a Security License in the United States you need to either be a Citizen or a Permanent Resident of the United States.

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by chuksey1(m): 2:59pm On Jul 15, 2018
KendrickAyomide:
una lazy finish including braket, i shame for una. i work 12 hours morning and Night shift 7-7 at Guiness Benin city factory for less than a 100 dollar pay.. most of the time we stand. wtf

After working in guiness do u not go home to rest during the day. Remember in Germany you wilk have to attend classes and also study

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by samuelkingz(m): 3:32pm On Jul 15, 2018
KendrickAyomide:
una lazy finish including braket, i shame for una. i work 12 hours morning and Night shift 7-7 at Guiness Benin city factory for less than a 100 dollar pay.. most of the time we stand. wtf
pls tell them..I remember when i worked at bimbo detergent factory in kirikiri...7am to 7pm..packing the detergents into cartons standing...or when we use shovel to pour the fallen crumbs into the pulley to be remodelled or the chemicals that made your eyes teary and red and your nose running....just for 700 naira...I took painkillers daily. menial jobs ain't bad abroad,it all boils down to having a plan and using these jobs as a stepping stone.

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by 9iceDaniel: 3:57pm On Jul 15, 2018
samuelkingz:

it all boils down to having a plan and using these jobs as a stepping stone.

Yes, I agree with you but no, I disagree because he his a student because that is not his primary objective but a side hustle

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Braket: 5:04pm On Jul 15, 2018
LUCAS99:


Wetin I do Boss?
Thought you were passing through to ask someone out cheesy
LUCAS99:


Most unskilled Jobs here in the United States are the same way.

You stand on your feet for the entire 8 hours & only get a 30 minutes lunch break.

After a while I got used to it.

But the best job I had was a job as a Security Officer at a luxury condominium & office

The only thing I needed to do was to monitor the security Cameras & make sure that only authorized personel are allowed on the premises.

Sometimes I got bored of sitting for a long period of time & got up to walk around.

You also needed a Security Badge to scan inorder to access the elevator.

I was paid around $10.00/ hour.

I think I'm kinda spoiled now since I always look for jobs that lets me sit down for the entire duration of my shift.

And inorder to get a Security License in the United States you need to either be a Citizen or a Permanent Resident of the United States.
Ja, this is not far from the truth, the jobs that allows you to sit are so boring you feel sleepy. But they are way better than the standing one jare


samuelkingz:

pls tell them..I remember when i worked at bimbo detergent factory in kirikiri...7am to 7pm..packing the detergents into cartons standing...or when we use shovel to pour the fallen crumbs into the pulley to be remodelled or the chemicals that made your eyes teary and red and your nose running....just for 700 naira...I took painkillers daily. menial jobs ain't bad abroad,it all boils down to having a plan and using these jobs as a stepping stone.
I can't agree less, the menial jobs are not really that hard but it is still hard grin

Using as stepping stone, that's true. Working such jobs make me realize why there are alot of opportunities in the skilled labor field that they take people from other countries to fill them up.

All boils down to having plans and spiritual backups.

Connection and moving with the right people is needed here one way or the other, because not all job openings end up on the Internet.

Please don't rely too much on the Nigerian community when you come here. Most of them will f*ck you up and hide vital information from you. I will post about my experience with them in this city later

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Braket: 5:05pm On Jul 15, 2018
9iceDaniel:


Yes, I agree with you but no, I disagree because he his a student because that is not his primary objective but a side hustle
That is the main problem. Working this kind of jobs makes the day wasted
Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Chriswazo(m): 8:05pm On Jul 15, 2018
Braket:

That is the main problem. Working this kind of jobs makes the day wasted

Cars d cheap for Germany Please can you find out for me. More so, aside cars, what other business opportunity can one harness in exporting from Germany or bringing in? I heard afro food stuffs cost there too
Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Chriswazo(m): 8:10pm On Jul 15, 2018
Braket:
Thank you for the drama that happened while I was away. It was fun reading it and really eased my stressful week grin grin

I think it's safe to say that making one Euro here in Germany no be beans at all, coming from Nigerian work experience.

No time for playing.


Remember I mentioned how a journey of an hour turned to 4 stressful hours last week? The fact that I needed to pick something at home and head out again?

Well I was going home to pick my safety boot for a night shift I had. Little did I know I have not expressed the greatest stress yet.

Getting home to pick the safety boot and heading out again, I had no time to rest.

In short, I started the night shift work in a biscuit factory from 10pm to 6am.

What I did basically was packing 5 biscuits into a big pack, then send it to a taping machine and it rolls off to logistics department.

All these were done while standing.

I had to be fast because the biscuits won't stop coming so speed was need.
I was battling with a lot of things, the stress I expressed during the day, back pain, leg pain, hand pain, the pain of not closing my eyes since 5am that I work up.

In my mind, I was just cursing the owner of the biscuit factory grin and the day I showed interest in the job.

Shebi I said time was fast in Germany, nah line oh. The time is freaking slow when you have to work while standing.

Immediately my supervisor announces 5 minutes Pause, I dash out of the freaking place. But at that moment, the time gets faster and I report back to work.

In short, I worked myself out on Saturday and had to sleep all through Sunday, starving at some point.


Morale of the story cheesy.
When you hear the pay, it makes sense in naira. But please don't be fooled, everything goes back to the system.

If you have the mentality of coming to Germany to hustle with student visa, these are the kind of unskilled blood sucking jobs you will get and trust me, you will surely grow old very fast. And the painful part, half of your money goes back to the government who in turn pay them to their senior citizens and those without jobs that end up using it to smoke cigarette and drink beer, and still hate you for being black.

Funniest part, one will think a lot of people working these jobs will be foreigners. Nah lie oh, most of them are citizens.
This I think is the main reason they need skilled works and thereby making their education free to bring in people to fill the space.

Person wey get head no get cap.

Can one do business there while schooling like buying and selling or even exporting of goods I guess that would be illegal with the student visa, but can it work

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Cesar247(m): 8:39pm On Jul 15, 2018
Life in Germany can sometimes be tough,but life in most part of europe is getting tougher for immigrants.
The immigration crisis has made europeans suspicious of immigrants,nevertheless Germany is abound with opportunities.

Learn the language,that's very vital for your stay and survival in Germany.

Stay positive and learn fast

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Braket: 8:22am On Jul 16, 2018
Chriswazo:


Cars d cheap for Germany Please can you find out for me. More so, aside cars, what other business opportunity can one harness in exporting from Germany or bringing in? I heard afro food stuffs cost there too
I really don't know much about cars or business here for now. I have been to an Auto Haus once and the cars I saw there were about the range of 8000 euros upwards.

Owning a car is not a problem for them here, because they massively produce cars and people get them on contract. Used cars aren't that common like it is in USA.

One thing you should note about Germany is that, there are not a lot of used things flying around like USA where used phones, laptops and the likes are like pure water grin.

Here, they prefer to keep their things or when they sell it, it is somewhat expensive to even think of sending to Nigeria and sell.

As an international student from outside EU, you're nit allowed to freelance or own a business.

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Braket: 8:24am On Jul 16, 2018
Cesar247:
Life in Germany can sometimes be tough,but life in most part of europe is getting tougher for immigrants.
The immigration crisis has made europeans suspicious of immigrants,nevertheless Germany is abound with opportunities.

Learn the language,that's very vital for your stay and survival in Germany.

Stay positive and learn fast
Thanks bro.
The immigration crisis is causing issues no doubt.

The language I am so sure I will learn.

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Chriswazo(m): 8:56am On Jul 16, 2018
Braket:

I really don't know much about cars or business here for now. I have been to an Auto Haus once and the cars I saw there were about the range of 8000 euros upwards.

Owning a car is not a problem for them here, because they massively produce cars and people get them on contract. Used cars aren't that common like it is in USA.

One thing you should note about Germany is that, there are not a lot of used things flying around like USA where used phones, laptops and the likes are like pure water grin.

Here, they prefer to keep their things or when they sell it, it is somewhat expensive to even think of sending to Nigeria and sell.

As an international student from outside EU, you're nit allowed to freelance or own a business.

Thank you bro

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Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Benfaco: 9:19pm On Jul 18, 2018
Braket:

Thought you were passing through to ask someone out cheesy

Ja, this is not far from the truth, the jobs that allows you to sit are so boring you feel sleepy. But they are way better than the standing one jare



I can't agree less, the menial jobs are not really that hard but it is still hard grin

Using as stepping stone, that's true. Working such jobs make me realize why there are alot of opportunities in the skilled labor field that they take people from other countries to fill them up.

All boils down to having plans and spiritual backups.

Connection and moving with the right people is needed here one way or the other, because not all job openings end up on the Internet.

Please don't rely too much on the Nigerian community when you come here. Most of them will f*ck you up and hide vital information from you. I will post about my experience with them in this city later

Please more updates from you bro. I've been an ardent follower of this thread.
Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by Intergrity19: 10:46pm On Jul 18, 2018
Please op can someone run a business online while in Germany as a student?

The kind of business is BLOGGING and E-commerce

Is it allowed?
Re: The Adventures Of A Village Scholar In Germany by usebog: 10:21am On Jul 20, 2018
Great one bro

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