nice little or medium size town for working holiday?

Hi there

Im planning to go working holiday in Germany maby next year for 3 to 5 month

however I heard the emloyment rate is low so I am bit worried.

I stayed in berlin before for 4 month so I can speak a bit of German to live(as in finding apartment, buying ticket, and setup bank account).

However, Im looking for nice little or medium size town to do working holiday.

just wondering what jobs are avaliable here in germany?

is there youth hostel work or fruit picking or help at wine yard?

I would like to practice my german as much as possible

thanks

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Hi lungfish

I would roughly decide on a region where I would like to stay and then start looking for jobs in that region (website the town, website of local newspapers,...)

Let%26#39;s take for example Luenburg in Lower-Saxony, about 50km southeast of Hamburg. To get an impression about the town, have a look at wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lueneburg

For finding jobs you could go to:

http://www.lueneburg.de/index.htm?baum_id=265

- go to %26quot;Jobbörse%26quot; and enter: %26quot;Stellenangebot%26quot; for Anzeigentyp, %26quot;Lüneburg%26quot; for Region and then %26quot;alles%26quot; to see which jobs are offered.

http://www.meinestadt.de/lueneburg/jobs

klick on the different possibilities (e.g. Helferjobs, Gastronomie,...) and see what is offerend. You can also post your application but that would make 19,50 EUR and I don%26#39;t know whether it is really worth to invest that much money.

http://www.luenepost.de/

This a weekly newspaper that is distributed to every household for free. Just klick on %26quot;Stellen-Anziegen%26quot;. Lueneburg has 3 postal codes: 21335, 21337 and 21339. Enter them one after another in the field next to PLZ-Gebiet. After having browsed through the results, you can enter the license plate (LG) next to KFZ-Kennz. Doing this, you will enlarge the region that was covered with the postal code and also receive results from the villages in the surroundings.

Also, you can think about what you would like to do (working in a pub / restaurant, office,...) and then write emails in order to ask for a job. Lüneburg is famous for its pubs and many students are working there in the evenings or at week-ends. Most pubs are at the stint: http://www.meinestadt.de/lueneburg/jobs and in Schroederstrasse: belocal.de/lueneburg/…3389.html

This was just an example. There are most likely easier ways to find a job.

Luebeck and Goettingen might also be some towns you might like to work and live in.

Do you already know where you would like to live (south, north,...) If yes, it%26#39;s easier to recommend some towns to you.

In case you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask me.

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%26gt; however I heard the emloyment rate is low so I am bit worried.

Depends on the region. In Berlin the unemployment rate is still high.

In Southern Germany there are regions with an unemployment rate of 3,5% (which means by German standards: full employment). The smaller and medium size towns are here doing actually better than the big ones.

%26gt; is there youth hostel work or fruit picking or help at wine yard?

%26gt; I would like to practice my german as much as possible

thanks

Than fruit picking and wine yards are an option, but not ideal to practice German

a) that%26#39;s not the best work to train your language skills

b) you co-workers will be mostly non-Germans

With some German skills you could e.g. work at pubs, beer gardens.

If you can work outside the %26quot;student season%26quot; (in Summer mid July till mid September) you have even more choices. Also in industry etc.

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Re setting up bank account: not that easy as a non-resident. We have an apartment in Berlin (so bills to pay etc) and managed to open one with Deutsche Bank which has monthly maintenance fee of around 4.50€.

For 3-4 months not sure how useful it is/how much you need one. In the old days having a post-office account in your own country meant you cd use post-office accounts while abroad, so ask about that. (Postbank in Germany told me that normally non-residents can%26#39;t open an account there)

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thanks guys

I don%26#39;t mind staying either in the south or north as long as it%26#39;s a nice little or average size town.

I%26#39;ve only been to a few places in germany anyway which are berlin, potsdamn, munich, garmish-parakirchen, and a day trip to regensburg. I also came to germany for exchange before at gissen for 6 weeks, so have visited bundingen and lich.

I would like to get away from the big bustling cities for a while, and try to practice german with locals.

I dont mind working in pubs since I have an Australian qualification of bartending certificate, but not sure if you need the qulification in Germany.

I am wondering how much do you get paid pro stunde for a bartender or fruit picking?

from personal experience, to live in berlin, you need about 6 to 8 euros a day for food at least if self cooked, but this might be more for other cities since berlin is cheap.

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The fact you are not (I assume) a EU national may affect where you can work, though possibly not for casual work. Strictly speaking non EU nationals require a work-permit.

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#Lynda

I guess you don%26#39;t really know what a Working Holiday Visa is.

With this visa the OP can work legally in Germany.

germanembassy.org.au/en/…20Holiday.pdf

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Hi lungfish

It always depends on the region you are working in but for fruitpicking you can assume approx. EUR 5.50 per hour and for working in a pub EUR 5-7 (mostly + tip).

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