Why did you move abroad? Why in Berlin?

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It was what I always wanted to do: to travel and to “be from” everywhere.
But also Argentina is an economic and intellectual mess, especially Buenos Aires. People there is too judgmental and it´s very hard to change their mind about anything: boring. On the political and social side, even tough is much more advanced than most of the countries in Latin America, it´s still centuries away from the kind of society I would like to live in.
Europe isn´t either, but it´s by far much better for me, from almost every point of view.

Berlin, at first, was a pure job seeking choice, but with the recommendation of a friend easily became the choice. I didn´t know much about the city when I decided to actually come, but It was a good decision. I´m very happy about it.

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Is there any characteristic, you can identify as peculiar of your country, you miss?

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I do miss a lot the “understanding” of the humor. I have to rethink most of my jokes to make it understandable to everyone abroad.
This could sound like a superficial answer, but I really mean it.

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If you look back at your life in your country, do you see improvement that justify your moving abroad? Or, do you see improvement chances?

From every point of view, yes.

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   Do you feel integrated in the German society? In the Berliner one?

Berlin is the only city I´ve been in Germany so I couldn´t really answer properly this question. But in Berlin, after a while, I´ve come to feel myself as a part of it. Germans are like they are, but as in every other culture, the individuals make the difference. The German society as a whole, I couldn´t say yet. The only feeling that I get I that the last years of “Tolerance guilt” here in Germany are fading and I`m really worried about it, but I don´t know that many about the country to say: this is what I think.

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What does the work represent and mean to you?
 

Slavery deluxe.

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What does this specific job mean to you?
 

I don´t think about “the job” really at this moment. It has been very important for me, to be able to actually live here so I´m really happy to have found it. Of course the hours at the desk and on the phone are hard, but it´s what it is now and I give it my best.

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   Has anything changed of your approach to work since you work in a Call Center?
To be honest, I do see our job as a call center.  Even tough, I know it technically is. The ones I´ve worked in Bs. As. were a bombing of calls and negative energy from 200 persons per day in your ear. I feel this job as kind of “office job”.

Has anything changed of your approach to work since you work in a Call Center?

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To be honest, I do not see our job as a call center.  Even tough, I know it technically is. The ones I´ve worked in Buenos Aires were a bombing of calls and negative energy from 200 persons per day in your ear. I feel this job as kind of “office job”.

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