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Need Advice

Post Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:05 pm

Desperately seeking any sustainable Job in Germany or Schweiz-
Can any of you PLEASE try to help me?

Where are most english speakers (who are not super-educated) finding gainful employment in Germany or der Schweiz?

Are there particular Zeitarbeit Vermittlung Firmen (Temp Agencies/Job Recruiters) that are especially active with venig-German-speaking Canadian & US citizens? If so where (& what) are they? Are there better cities that I should be in instead of the Bodensee region? If so - then please tell me as I have a place to sleep, job-hunting/traveling financial support, & moving support for only one more month.

For almost a year I've been in the Bodensee Region near Konstanz/Überlingen/Tüttlingen but I haven't been able to find work except to possibly work with stressed-out 20-year-olds at 'Burger King' - and I'm over 40.

My current Work-permit/Visum is based on me being a generic 'Teacher' at a Tüttlingen (DE) Zeitarbeit Firme (Temp Agency) but they will have no work for me until the summer time. But I am officially told I can easily get a different 'Arbeitserlaubnis' (work-permit) at any other Job prospect as long as the job is full-time and has an open-ended end-date.

I am being supported by a friend for only one more month and I MUST be on my own by then. I'm stressfully frightened because I have absolutely no options outside of Germany, I have no family, and (like 100,000's of shocked Americans) I will never return to the US due to the 3rd-World true-Nazi-like Country its turned into and especially considering the unspeakable illegal/violent things its doing to its fewer honest well-earned citizens. I have been unbearably stranded in South America for the past 2+ years because of this, and I even have an official complaint pending with US Congress over the appalling illegal out-of-control USSR or Nazi-like things I've repeatedly witnessed there - but I don't what to make that the topic here; I am really trying desperately to permanently sustain myself in Germany where I grew up long ago. This is my only home in the World.

For my past occupations: I have been in Technical Sales for Mechanical/HVAC/Electrical Contractors in the US other countries previously, and long ago I did electronics/mechatronik assembly & Quality Assurance, but my very limited German is holding me back from finding any real job in the small towns around Bodensee - but I'm eager to do ANY type of gainful employment to be able to survive either in Germany or preferably around the DE/Schweiz border regions. I will eagerly work at a fast-food sweatshop or similar mindless labor if I must - it is much, much better than returning to the Bandits & blistering Sun of Latin & South America which was certainly never my home.

Note: My first work-permit/Visum in Germany last year was to teach at a Language School near Konstanz, but after sitting on my teaching materials for many months the School finally called to say that not enough students enrolled in the class I was supposed to teach - so I remained unemployed.

I am also willing to move almost anywhere (anywhere that I can afford to live) for 'gainful' employment lasting a year or longer.

Any kind advice is greatly appreciated. Regards to all
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