And so I begin to lose my faculties

[scooterscot]

I was just wondering - not commenting on the sitch specifically!

Like UK in 70's really...

You miss it don't you?

Come Sunday everybody and their dog is out about walking, participating in some family activity or in the beer garden.

[suityou01]

What was your pin, in the end?

It was .....

[suityou01]

Nope! There's no debit card either! Stuck with a maestro EC card. But then people continue to use case much more than cards, at least that's my observation. You produce a card at the end of a meal in the restaurant and you get a dirty look.

Cash is king here.

I pay on a card in a resturant here, without any filthy looks.

You do remember to give TrinkGeld don't you?

[scooterscot]

You do remember to give TrinkGeld don't you?

Never more than 10%, and only if they've earned it.

Can't speak for other cities, but Munich remains very much cash & coin based.

[stek]

Things have changed since 2006, actually quite a few of the above existed in 2006 as well...

This was Berlin tho, back of beyond Dresdner Bank corner of Sophie Charlotte Platz, Charlottenburg - funny how you remember not being able to get in....

Loved it though, me and the missus will go back one day - she is an interpreter/translator in German and it's all a bit wasted working in Bradford albeit for a German company....

Loved Berlin tho - shame there;s no jobs...

[scooterscot]

Loved Berlin tho - shame there;s no jobs...

Berlin is booming, there's loads more jobs these days.

Stepstone is always a good place to start looking. And forgot linkedIn, in Germany it's Xing.

[stek]

Berlin is booming, there's loads more jobs these days.

Stepstone is always a good place to start looking. And forgot linkedIn, in Germany it's Xing.

Got Xing - and gulp.de!

Never much comes up in Berlin tho - Dusseldorf and Frankfurt yeah, turned one down is DUS tho a while back - wish I'd taken it now!

[darmstadt]

Berlin is booming, there's loads more jobs these days.

Stepstone is always a good place to start looking. And forgot linkedIn, in Germany it's Xing.

There is de.linkedin.com and I get more German contacts from that than Xing. Xing is okay but gulp is much better, just typing in AIX and berlin gives you over 1500 jobs. There's even a jobserve.de. There are some excellent lowkey contractor sites in Germany where you'll find some very niche projects as well.

[scooterscot]

Got Xing - and gulp.de!

Never much comes up in Berlin tho - Dusseldorf and Frankfurt yeah, turned one down is DUS tho a while back - wish I'd taken it now!

Dusseldorf is a good spot to be too, with Koln nearby, you could even get the train to London.

[scooterscot]

There is de.linkedin.com and I get more German contacts from that than Xing. Xing is okay but gulp is much better, just typing in AIX and berlin gives you over 1500 jobs. There's even a jobserve.de. There are some excellent lowkey contractor sites in Germany where you'll find some very niche projects as well.

I've got a couple of direct jobs through xing. Haarrmpph..