{"id":43,"date":"2014-02-15T21:05:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T21:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.projectpenniless.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2019-01-08T15:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:55:56","slug":"well-what-happened-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.projectpenniless.com\/en\/lastyear\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, what happened last year?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is not part of my actual journey and should be seen as an appendix. It’s purpose is to clarify a few things regarding references to the last year.<\/em><\/p>\n

After getting back to Germany in January last year, I spent about a month just trying to figure out what I was gonna do next. Without success as you can imagine. The usual way would have been quite easy: School, studies, work. When thinking about studying, I would have had to decide on what<\/strong> as well as where<\/strong>. Neither am I comfortable studying Mechanical Engineering simply because it was the first thing that came to mind, nor am I sure about living in Germany for several years while doing so. Well, sitting around doing nothing is even worse and thus in March I started a voluntary service in biotechnology. After about three to four months working for the BRAIN stock corporation, I started developing the plan for my journey and I resigned after a total of six months voluntary service. That was at the end of August and I had already made the decision to move to Greifswald for the next few months. I had to take care of a few things before I left though.<\/p>\n

The following month went by quickly while – in preparation for my travels – I had my last immunisations done and got rid of my wisdom teeth. They would have had to be pulled out later anyways but I didn’t want that to happen somewhere in South America. Or any other place for that matter, where medical facilities could be rare or the insurance unclear.<\/p>\n

In October I moved northwards to the Baltic Sea and even though I had started searching for a job while I was still in Darmstadt, I hadn’t been successful so far. I had to hurry as any time spent without earnings meant less money for my travels and as a result I didn’t care too much what kind of job it would be. In the end, I had a chance at a call center, a delivery service and super market.
\nWhile trying to sell products for Bofrost<\/abbr>, I had to realise being a bully isn’t really my strength; and I think that is a requirement if you’re trying to sell something to someone who clearly doesn’t want it.
\nBurgerKing<\/abbr> has a delivery service in Greifswald. Sounds strange? Yeah, it feels that way as well. While I didn’t want to work in the kitchen there, I didn’t mind driving around and delivering burgers. That worked for a short while until it became obvious that not all parts of the – so far only verbally concluded – contract were made clear to me in the beginning. Let’s just say I’m not willing to work a stand-by duty (unpaid while not working) below minimum wage.
\nThat way I ended up starting to work for Netto<\/abbr> and even though the beginning was rough, it was a lot better than the first two options. And now, after two months working for them I’m actually quite happy with the new store I’ve been moved to. Even though I won’t be there for much longer as I handed in my resignation for the end of this month.<\/p>\n

Hope that clears up those last few posts and you liked it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t think the last twelve months were adequately retold and I’d like to catch up on that for those interested in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.projectpenniless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.projectpenniless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.projectpenniless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.projectpenniless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.projectpenniless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.projectpenniless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"http:\/\/www.projectpenniless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.projectpenniless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.projectpenniless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.projectpenniless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.projectpenniless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}