Away from Home
Hello, fellow LDR'ers!
Currently I live 480 km (300 miles) away from my home Berlin in a city in the south of Germany.
I guess that's a really small distance compared to lots of other couples on here!!
I graduated from engineering just when the financial crisis was soaring and had a hard time finding a job eventhough I had good grades. Additionally, eventhough Berlin's the capital it doesn't really offer too many jobs in my field.
So I decided to search for jobs anywhere for the sake of my career.
For months I didn't get any offers and then in summer 2009 I had two offers: one in Berlin and one in South Germany. The job in Berlin would have been better paid but it was a job in sales that consisted only of calling companies and trying to sell a software that costs 30,000€… Not a great job! So I decided to take the job in S-Germany.
When I knew that I would sign with that company, conicidentally on a science night at my university I met the guy who's now my b/f.
I had had a crush on him some years ago, I even met him on a sports weekend a year before that but he wasn't interested in me.
That night, though, we talked and I told him about my fate (moving away from the coolest city in Germany: Berlin) and he "pitied" me… but said that I should send him messages via facebook once I've moved.
Of course I didn't wait so long! Luckily I had about a month left before starting the job and I messaged him a week later or so.
We soon had or first date, and second, and so on… then the first kiss!
And soon after that I moved…
To be honest I wasn't even sure whether I wanted to be in a relationship. But when I was in the new city, in my empty appartment, I missed him and I asked him to come visit me.
I guess our relationship was a bit awkward in the beginning (we saw each other every 2nd weekend) but now over a year later I feel so close to him
.
Unfortunately my job turned out to be a nightmare but I didn't have the energy to look for another job in the beginning. I'm tied down w/ a 2 yr contract that forces me to pay back 2 month of my wage should I quit before July 2010… (eventhough I think that can't be legal…)
I want to look for another job (hopefully in Berlin!!) after x-mas and maybe even try to find sth. now (and see how I can quit q/o paying back money!!).
Anyways.
That's my story.
- Cloudy
Currently I live 480 km (300 miles) away from my home Berlin in a city in the south of Germany.
I guess that's a really small distance compared to lots of other couples on here!!
I graduated from engineering just when the financial crisis was soaring and had a hard time finding a job eventhough I had good grades. Additionally, eventhough Berlin's the capital it doesn't really offer too many jobs in my field.
So I decided to search for jobs anywhere for the sake of my career.
For months I didn't get any offers and then in summer 2009 I had two offers: one in Berlin and one in South Germany. The job in Berlin would have been better paid but it was a job in sales that consisted only of calling companies and trying to sell a software that costs 30,000€… Not a great job! So I decided to take the job in S-Germany.
When I knew that I would sign with that company, conicidentally on a science night at my university I met the guy who's now my b/f.
I had had a crush on him some years ago, I even met him on a sports weekend a year before that but he wasn't interested in me.
That night, though, we talked and I told him about my fate (moving away from the coolest city in Germany: Berlin) and he "pitied" me… but said that I should send him messages via facebook once I've moved.
Of course I didn't wait so long! Luckily I had about a month left before starting the job and I messaged him a week later or so.
We soon had or first date, and second, and so on… then the first kiss!
And soon after that I moved…
To be honest I wasn't even sure whether I wanted to be in a relationship. But when I was in the new city, in my empty appartment, I missed him and I asked him to come visit me.
I guess our relationship was a bit awkward in the beginning (we saw each other every 2nd weekend) but now over a year later I feel so close to him
. Unfortunately my job turned out to be a nightmare but I didn't have the energy to look for another job in the beginning. I'm tied down w/ a 2 yr contract that forces me to pay back 2 month of my wage should I quit before July 2010… (eventhough I think that can't be legal…)
I want to look for another job (hopefully in Berlin!!) after x-mas and maybe even try to find sth. now (and see how I can quit q/o paying back money!!).
Anyways.
That's my story.
- Cloudy
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