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09/01/2019

At the beginning of last week, I did my first short and small road trip since I live in the USA. The very first road trip was a ¾ year ago Los Angeles - San Diego.

There are two videos about the road trip on Youtube (only in German). The first part can already be seen and the second part is visible on Wednesday morning (German time).  

I uploaded another video to my "private" Youtube channel. But it is only a small driving video from San Diego and shows downtown from different sides.

It is supposed to convey what I have learned to see and love every day. In the next time comes more of it.

This year is at 2.9 Labor day. This is celebrated all over the USA, takes place every year on the first Monday in September and is the same as May 1st in Germany = Labor Day.

There will certainly be many events, some museums lure to this day with free entry or heavily discounted tickets (at least here). Many Americans also use the day with their families. Soon I will tell you what experience I have gained. The next big event after Halloween is Thanksgiving on 28.11 = a kind of harvest thanksgiving.  I am looking forward to finally getting to know these celebrations. Now I start to plan the first visit to Germany, but it will be very small, I will not visit all the people, but only a very small selection.

08/24/2019

Currently, there is nothing new to report. I drive the day or night over for Lyft and enjoy the area. Every day I look forward to coming along the Pacific or into the "mountains". Downtown at night is also nice to look at. There are many great corners here where you don't know what you should have. From September 3rd I will be working in the German Preschool for 3 months. If I can still drive for Lyft, I'll have to find out. But I think that it will be very difficult, from the financial point of view, to make a profit.

I published a new video on my Youtube channel, with answers to your questions.

In the past, I have been asked questions here on the blog or on Youtube, among various videos. I go into these in detail. It's difficult to ask for answers to anonymous questions in the blog, so I prefer to go into it on Youtube or here in the blog in the future. I am happy to encourage emigrants, to support them and to be able to help with my experiences. I wish you a lot of fun and success with the adventure in your new home. (Video is only in German)

08/13/2019

In the last few weeks, a lot has happened that you could see in the videos 32 and 33 on my YouTube channel, and so I seldom found time to add anything to the blog. Emigrating is and remains an adventure, which I like very much. Straight lines are too boring for me, and I am happy to learn from mistakes.  But at the moment everything is going well again.

Three more weeks until the preschool starts.

I had only thought about coming to Germany, but I quickly got that out of my head, because I actually intended to do this in September. But as compensation, I will make a small road trip of 3 days. I have the car and the money for the trip too. For the trip I will make a video with the "Best off" of the trip. But before I go on a trip, I will be busy and work. There will also be a "Question-Answer" video on my YouTube channel where I will answer all the questions I've been asked in the blog or on YouTube. I thank you for your support and ask. (Video only in German)

I also feel a bit torn. On one page I would like to please as many people as possible, whereby it is my life and I don't have to please anyone with what I do and do. This also includes the topic of going to another state in order to be better off financially. But to be honest, I like it here and I don't do it because of the money. I don't care about that at all, but make sure that I can finance myself and that the fun remains with all that it does so far.

I also love to be independent, like now. I work, have no direct superior and can work when, where and how I want. I love to take a break somewhere and sometime as I want. In an office job I wouldn't have the freedom anymore. The concept doesn't work out quite as well with preschool, but I only have to work 5 hours a day, that's fine again and afterward, I'm free again if you understand what I mean.

Nevertheless, I will still look at other states, but not for financial reasons, but rather out of curiosity. I like the countryside which I could get to know here, through which driving.

Still, something to the Blog. Tumblr was sold to WordPress, what will happen in the future, I don't know yet. However, it may be that I have to move my blog. Since the blog and YouTube is and remains a "non-profit" project, I don't want to invest any money for it.

07/14/2019

it runs now to some extent with driving, there is already again the next problem.

By the check scam of last month, where I now with $200 in the minus with my current account, the credit institute closed me the bank account. That is now already good 2 weeks in such a way. Lyft tried to deposit my first earnings into my bank account, which didn't work. So it is not possible to balance the account in order to continue working with it. I had to react quickly and opened a new bank account with Chase at the beginning of this week. I immediately informed Lyft of the new bank details and received the earnings for the first two weeks. The problem now is that I now have to wait for the bank papers and the card that I can work with the account. This means that I can transfer money and withdraw it. I have already brought my credit card to the limit to be able to refuel. Normally you shouldn't do that if you only have one month. This doesn't have a good effect on the credit score, which you should build up here to rent apartments or buy cars, houses or other things later. The weather is still very fresh on the coast, but very good in the interior. I am currently looking for new accommodation with more privacy and fewer problems. What's new is that I'm applying for other jobs in IT and education ("back to the road" so to speak). The next two weeks I will tell you more about this in a new video.

07/02/2019

With time, where I drive around here, I like the city more and more, from the scenic aspect...

Yesterday I thought about making a video with all the hotpots you should have seen. By that, I don't mean the sights, but rather places where you have a good view of certain things, like beaches, cities or whole valleys. Where you can watch and enjoy the sunset. The question was whether I should move on to Florida or not? But I think with what I see here, I'd rather stay here. Only flat terrain would be too boring for me.

On the upper picture, you can see approximately how old the area around Del Mar, north of San Diego, is. A very interesting contemporary witness. You can see this when you walk on the beach to the south at the Pacific. I will definitely take a closer look at this area and record it in the video.

The picture below this paragraph is part of Downtown and Seaport Village.

I'm doing relatively well, but I'm tired from time to time. But that's normal for the beginning. I still have to get used to driving, it's only the beginning of the second week. Since the summer holidays are here, it is difficult to get enough passengers in the morning. The day after tomorrow, the 4th is a holiday. I think I'll go into it soon and tell you how I felt about it. I will drive anyway.

06/22/2019

Once again, everything comes out different from we thought. The job I thought I had turned out to be a scam and cost me well with all $150. I am now even more careful than before. But in the next video, I'll go into more detail and explain what happened (only in German).

My DL has now arrived, Juhu, but what to do with the good piece?

06/13/2019

Do to in July

Search and buy (specific) vehicles

Find a other apartments

Earn the first money  ✔

06/13/.2019

Do to in Juni

find a Job   ✔

apply for Credit card  ✔

Driver license Done  ✔

Search and buy (specific) vehicles

Earn the first money

06/072018

05/30/2019

Now 3 months USA is over, I got to know a lot, love a lot and not like a lot. Well, since I still don't have a job, I have to pull the ripcord. Unfortunately, I won't be able to afford the rent this month and therefore I will have to fly back to Germany. I'm trying to get money for it in different ways, which I can pay back at the end of June. The blog here still goes on, because I plan to emigrate again at the end of the year. This time even better prepared than now. In Germany, it will be difficult, because I don't know how I will do it yet. Should I register again or not. Should I work as a freelancer, but should I have everything taxed via the USA? Or is there a problem if I register again in Germany for 6 months? Questions about questions. You want to do as little wrong as possible and pay as little as possible.

05/16/2019

Something completely different. This entry is not about me this time, but also about a dream that is on the war to realization. If you would like to support German music and a young artist, please feel free to do so under the following link. The YouTube channel of the artist is also included. In sometimes we often need support from other people to make our dreams come true.

https://www.startnext.com/projekt-weltweit

04/29/2019

Do to for May

Find a Job

Looking for the own Apartment

Finished the Driver license

Looking for a Car

04/28/2019

04/23/2019

As already reported in the last video, I completed on April 22nd the first part for the American driver’s license. As in Germany, that was the theoretical part. The picture shows the current driving license with a passenger who has a valid American driver’s license. Here the driver License is called. When I applied for my driver’s license, I decided to add RealID to it. This means that the driver's license is also valid as ID and that I only need the DL for flights within the USA and no passport or green card. I still always take these with me. At https://infosandlinkstoemigrate.tumblr. (only in German this time)  com you can re-register or re-register your driving license (only in California). On May 15th the practical test will take place after which I will receive my driving license by post and can then officially drive a car. 

04/26/2019

04/11/2019

tomorrow, Friday, I'm starting on my first job. As I mentioned a month ago, there was a job as a mechanic at Lyft. Now I can work there tomorrow from 6:30 to 14:30. 4 days (from Friday to Monday) a week per 8 hours to mid-June. That's a start to securing my future for the next few months. I hope of course that everything goes well and that on Saturday you don't mean that I don't have to come back. The whole thing will take place in downtown (about 6.6mi from my accommodation). However, there will still be applications for IT, have some interested parties. With the job now, I have health insurance and pension insurance. That was very important to me because I didn't like to fight my way through all the insurance stuff (there's 1000th as with the banks). The foot's already in the door. I look for jobs on different platforms and providers like Linkedin, Monster, Indeed, etc. to name just a few. With some job offers Recruiting companies are behind it which have again bandwidth and pass the curriculum vitae on. Most of the time I registered and published my revised curriculum vitae. I'm now starting to write down the companies to me all so I can “not make available"; my traffic jams when I need them when I have the right job. Otherwise, I run the risk of still getting 100terte job offers(exaggerated) by mail and calls to freelance projects.

Post-Part I

04/04/2019

There's some news to report. But let's just start where we left off. I sent on my private Facebook profile, personal contacts to the April Fool, where I claimed that I would break off the whole emigration adventure and come back again. In the last Youtube Video, I resolved the whole thing. The option to end the whole thing nevertheless only comes into question if I should not be able to gain an economic foothold. Although I would like to prevent this, even if some people would be very happy about a return, understandably. I reported in my last blog entry about the website and app “Meetup" and that I will test them. The service is free of charge if you don't form your own group or event or if you plan and hold it. I was now at the first mentioned “Event" called “GermanStammtisch" in a restaurant in SanDiego. There were nice people with different backgrounds, who can speak German or want to learn it. For me as “newbie", a chance to make contacts and to get the first experiences live from other emigrants. I found out a few things that might take me a little further in my career and possibly simplify my new life. I can recommend every immigrant or visitor for a certain time, this kind of community pages or apps, because it simplifies the former toa foreign area and you meet one or the other helpful like-minded person.

The experience reports of those who have already emigrated are, of course, based on their objective perception and do not have to agree with the same result and experience, since various factors play an influential role. I spontaneously registered for another group from the mentioned site. This one is about the English language. The group meets for just over an hour a week every Thursday in SD Towndown. A lecturer takes care of the whole matter and helps one with language difficulties. The focus of the group is to speak English and learn in a relaxed atmosphere.