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Systems engineer……a bit routine, but a good job.

I work in Munich as a systems engineer for a large computer company….it means that
…I don’t know what it means. I’m working….doing…putting the software together for
the consumer machines. From day to day, I build what we call images…Windows and the
right drivers for our hardware and misc. programs which we decide to use…we put it all
together [...]

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Marketing & PR…travelling and working 5 hours a week..Wow!

I am a Marcom (marketing and communication) …specialist?  My job title is PR
& sales. I work in a team of people and together we provide sales departments with
marketing material in order to support them. I used to work in Munich, but now I travel
around the world to make sure that <pause to think>…it’s basically looking [...]

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Assistance at a large company….what does that mean

I worked for a fairly large conglomerate in Munich, Germany doing marketing and
assistance. Assistance is basically doing shit…organizing meetings…no, I didn’t make
coffee. I refused to make coffee.
Before this job, I studied and I took the job because it paid well. I’ve been doing it
for 2 years and I kept doing it because it paid well [...]

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Computer contractor….good pay, but I want to do something more worthwhile

Where should I start?…well, I’m really not employed at the moment, but my last job was as a contractor working in Munich, Germany. I worked for a really large computer company there helping to troubleshoot problems with their Electronic Commerce systems. I must say that it was a rather nice job in a lot of [...]

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