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ButtHate
Sep 26, 2007
27, in my experience, is not an abnormal age to get your first real job. Where are you located approximately? In some places, e.g. rural East Germany, it's going to be harder to get going without moving. Most of the stuff you probably already know, but:

Call the Arbeitsamt and get a personal consultation.
It kind of depends on the person you'll talk to, but it can be useful. Bring your CV and some questions with you.

Go to jobfairs near you, but inform yourself about the companies before and ask relevant (non-basic) questions to the ones you are interested in.

Consider if you would be interested in an Ausbildung. I know people who did start theirs in their late 20s after failed study attempt and they seem to be happy now. The pay will be very low in the first 2-3 years, though. You can find some of them e.g. through the jobboerse.

Consider getting your Abitur in an Abendschule once or before you have employment as your long term plan (once you are at a manageable stress level where adding the additonal workload wont crush you).

If you want a job that is manageable, consider working for the state. The pay for the lower grades (1-4 is probably your range) is ok compared to similar jobs and the stress levels seem (from an outside perspective) very managable. You have defined raises, 30 holidays, and some job security. Plus you could conceivably get a job working with kids, e.g. in a KITA. Can start looking here for open jobs and check out the appropriate paygrades.

If you are married and your husband pays taxes in Germany, change your tax class to III - V from IV - IV until you find real employment, if you haven't already (and even then, calculate if it is advantageous to keep it). Difference in your salaries could easily make this 100-200 Euro more a month.

Quit the church if you havent yet, unless that's something you want to be paying Kirchensteuer for with every paycheck.

edit:
Luecken im Lebenslauf. In your case I'd call it a "Auszeit aus gesundheitlichen Gründen" and not go into more details. Though do show that you still held some temporary employment and that you are now fully functional.

ButtHate fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Jun 10, 2019

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