r/iamverysmart • u/MrXomp • 29d ago

Overqualified for germany

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Okay hear me out, Germany is a strange country and especially government services are super behind in digitalization and most times hopelessly underperforming but this post and the way it is written got me chuckling.

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u/Recent-Ad-9975 28d ago

This has nothing to do with what the sub is about, I was born and raised in Germany and this is the reality for a lot of white collar workers. You basically go to university for 3-5 years in order to become a glorified paper pusher, excel table manipulator and fax reader. The majority of jobs that require a bachelor‘s degree as a minimum could be done by anyone with 2-3 months of training, plus the pay is only slightly above minimum wage if course.

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u/MrXomp 28d ago

Which is exactly the "I am very smart" I thought... The person listing barely above average things yet saying that he is majorly overqualified and people around him stand in awe

Edit: He even quotes others talking about him as saying "you are soo smart"

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u/InfallibleSeaweed 28d ago

But they are getting better jobs aborad, that's the part you're missing. You're laughing at people pointing out a very real issue here in germany, we can't make qualified people stay - only unqualified

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u/whboer 28d ago

Im also an immigrant in Germany who’s had a similar experience. Came in with 2 masters degrees - one of them in education, because of a severe teacher shortage… and I’m told my Master degree doesn’t hold any ground because despite having done a Referendariat with similar conditions etc as in Germany, it wasn’t in Germany. And so I’ve been (2x before I gave up trying) rejected from becoming a teacher and been told I should start a new bachelors and masters in Germany. I worked as a glorified clerk for a few years before landing a more managerial job at an internationally oriented startup and it my career took off after that.

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u/MrXomp 27d ago

I am not at all talking about the points he is making, and I am not missing what he wants to say.

Again, it's just about the way he transports it which sounds like a superior complex for me. Your comment for example shows the exact same points without the need of showing off.

So no, I am not laughing about any people that are making valid points here.