I went on the Web this morning looking for translation jobs.
I ran into an ad from a company claiming (in English) that they had 200,000 jobs in Germany! I personally doubt whether the government Employment Offices across the country have that many vacancies at the moment, but it was worth investigating.
Checked the first page - sales this, sales that, sales the other! If you do not like selling, if you actually loathe the very thought of being obliged to sell something? Forget it? Join the long-term unemployed? Give up looking?
IT positions, translation work, things that I could do? No sign of anything - needless to say!
Why they did not advertise themselves as having "200,000 SALES jobs in Germany"? Maybe they would realise that many people would not even look at what they had to offer.
But in a world where the choice increasingly seems to be selling or flipping burgers, what else might you expect?
I have a week - and then I am forced back on to Hartz IV, like it or not (and I don't!). I also this week have a discussion with the tax authorities on how the company that I was working for produced some phoney figures for my income between 2004 and 2008, and I am somehow responsible for that - either way it looks like they will want some money back from me (some hope! They might as well lock me up in jail and throw away the key, even if I think that I personally have done nothing wrong).
If I get through the next week intact, I will survive anything. "Bleak" understates it.
Advertising agencies are full-service businesses, which can manage every aspect of an advertising campaign. They vary widely in terms of size and scope and cater to different kinds of businesses. The agency is independent from the client and provides an outside point of view to the effort of selling the client's products or services. Thanks a lot!
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