hi,
first of all i'm sorry that i write in english and not in german, but my test fuer zuwanderer (b1lvl) wouldn’t be enough to write what i want in few hours.
i live in germany for 2 years (i plan to move to berlin in september or october) and since my contract in company i’m working right now is expiring i went to arbeitsagentur for advice. i worked in media for 10 years in my home country, but since i can’t do that here i’m looking for new beruf. the guy from agency offered me voucher for fachinformatiker anwendungsentwicklung or for fachinformatiker systemintegration. he said that i could do it even though i have only b1 german level, that i will learn more language by going to umschulung, that i’m not the only auslaender and if others can pass ihk i can as well. that’s very nice from him from motivations side, but the things that are worrying me would be that if i get fachliteratur from several hundred pages i can spend weeks and months trying to go through and books for learning IT with 900 pages are pretty usual thing. if someone is speeking german, situation is a little bit better, ‘cause i can’t understand every word, but i can mostly understand what is it about. i also believe there is plenty of english words and phrases in learning IT anywhere, but still… so, as a first and biggest thing that concerns me would be language. then there are things like, i learned math and physics 20 years ago in school, everyday use of both is somewhere still here but everything else is long long gone. the things that i like for both options are that they are very perspective, that i can much easier find a job when i have a real beruf, especially one of those two, that i always loved IT and i was always happy to learn something new. since my friend installed in front of me my first windows 98, i installed every other system to myself aloneand most of my friends ofc. I was always the guy which was called by friends to solve their pc problem or to tell them what to buy. i learn practically and when i see how something is done i can usually easily remember it. i know it’s not something spectacular in comparation with real things that most of you know, but i do think I have some predispositions for learning in IT.
I would be very thankful if anyone can give me their opinion or any kind of advice connected with this topic.