Well, I finally got this blog up, but I haven’t been lazy up to now. I’ll sum up what I’ve done so far to get to India.<\/p>\n
Once upon a time, in a company far, far away… (Autumn 2005, SAP) It all started with the question: „Where am I going?“ No, not in my life (that’s a different issue), but for my time abroad. The usual answers (USA, China, …) didn’t quite appeal to me. At that time, I have been in the Service&Support department, located at the beautiful SAP location in St. Leon-Rot. Nice place, lots of green, canteen with a small river flowing through, …<\/p>\n Sorry, I’m drifting off. It was a fun time there, and they are cooperating with a department in India, at Bangalore. Now that got me thinking. India is a nice country, and I wanted to go there sometimes anyways. A co-student of mine, who had been to India, had a bunch of great experiences. And I had a good relation to my department manager…there’s nothing better than a bit of networking.<\/p>\n So I wrote a mail over there. And waited. I wrote another mail. I talked to my department manager, so he would put in a good word for me at the next conference call. As I should learn later, my application climbed quite a way through the hierarchy. Finally, I got a word: I’m in! It was now december 2005.<\/em><\/p>\n So, I booked my flight (see this post<\/a>), and headed off to get my visa. I’m talking a bit more about it in this post<\/a>. But I realized on thing: Never rely in your memory. I was absolutely sure that my passport would be valid for some time, but one look convinced me from the painful truth: I needed a new one.<\/p>\n So I went to get my pictures done at my „Haus- und Hoffotograf“ (my favourite photographer) and went to the city office. I must have a good instinct concerning photographers, since the employee there told me that mine is „about the only one who gets it right in the first try“<\/em>. Lucky me! By now I have my very own biometric (?) passport with RFID chip, valid again for the next 6 years.<\/p>\n The Indian side also picked up pace, my request for a letter of invitation, which confirms that I will indeed be working at India, was replied to with said letter only half a day later. Thanks, guys!<\/p>\n Oh, yea, accomodation. I did not plan to live on the streets there ;-), so I got myself booked at the SAP guesthouse at Bangalore. The Indian HR department did this for me, so no trouble.<\/p>\n So, I’m sitting here, preparing my visum, and hoping for the very best. Phew. Quite a lengthy post, but I hope you’re up to date now. Any question? Post a comment, and I’ll do my very best to answer it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I finally got this blog up, but I haven’t been lazy up to now. I’ll sum up what I’ve done so far to get to India. Once upon a time, in a company far, far away… (Autumn 2005, SAP) It all started with the question: „Where am I going?“ No, not in my life\u2026 Weiterlesen »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preparations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dreier.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dreier.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dreier.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dreier.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dreier.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dreier.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dreier.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dreier.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dreier.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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