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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

As an American, how do I sign up to work in Germany? Practically speaking, not just the "official" way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Go to the website of your nearest friendly German embassy and read about visa rules. Or you could just try coming over as a tourist to get an idea whether this is actually the place you want to live in. If so, start learning German. That's always your first step.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well really the only step is to get hired in the first place, then you can request residence based on that.

But it's next to impossible to get hired as someone outside of the EU/Single Market unless you have many years (3-5 probably) of experience in a highly in-demand field/specialization, usually STEM stuff especially anything in tech or engineering, but also medical jobs since most EU countries put an artificial restriction on the amount of doctors that can be produced – in fact, because of this, western European countries tend to import loads of doctors from eastern European countries and Cuba which often don't have these restrictions and can produce many excess doctors. Keep in mind though medical professionals that, due to those artificial caps on doctors (which were created as a way to restrict supply and maintain the high status/prestige and pay of being a doctor) you usually have extremely long hours and are overworked to hell, with relatively poor working conditions, but I imagine it's still way better than in the US (which also has those artificial caps) for most who aren't top surgeons since at least the EU has worker protection laws lol.

I imagine trades are also highly valued by the government seeing as Europe has a critical shortage of people working in trades, due to the governments neglecting them, refusing to do much to value them, leading them to have worse pay and conditions than white-collar jobs. Why go through all the bullshit that is working a trade in the EU and just get underpaid and mistreated, when you can instead get 2x the pay and benefits of working an office job? So that's also probably doable.