by Sarah Fürstenberger | Feb 18, 2014 | German vocabulary, Red tape and bureaucracy, Work and employment matters
Remember my last post where I talked about my wonderful new job? The one I was excited about after the eight months of freelancing and running around in many directions trying to make a living? Well, one of the perils of working for a start up company is the very...
by Jane | Feb 10, 2014 | History and culture, Medical matters, Work and employment matters
It’s unusual for me to find that it’s my turn to blog and not have a topic or two that I’m bursting to write about. When that happens, I virtually leaf through Spiegel online and its English section, The Local and Deutsche Welle. My Facebook feed...
by Sarah Fürstenberger | Jan 13, 2014 | Expat issues, German vocabulary, Work and employment matters
Both Jane and I have mentioned the concept of the Rabenmutter, which is defined in the Wikidictionary as “A raven mother, a loveless, heartless, cruel, unnatural, or uncaring mother; a bad mother who does not take good care of her children.” Now no one has...
by Jane | Jan 7, 2014 | Expat issues, Red tape and bureaucracy, Tips, advice, suggestions, Work and employment matters
Like Sarah did several years ago, I mentioned our foray in having an au pair. We had had one from South Korea last summer, a relationship which ended pretty miserably. Despite our efforts to have fair and adjusted expectations of a young woman, age 20, from a culture...
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