<p>Apparently though being an engineering Germany gets you the title ‘Engineer’ just as a doctor would get the title ‘Doctor’ (obvicado). So you’re much more respected as an important person in society over there.</p>
<p>That’s because Germany has a strong engineering tradition, especially in mechanical engineering. For example, the first gas-powered car was invented by Karl Benz.</p>
<p>wow hadsed, I learn something new everyday. I didn’t believe u so I did a quick google and:</p>
<p>In Germany churches register with the gov’t and get support from them through the personal income tax. So your personal income tax goes to support the churches as well.</p>
<p>“…But you are not required to pay the tax unless you wish to be officially affiliated with one of Germany’s established churches; usually Catholic or Protestant (Evangelisch).”</p>
<p>From what I remember, I think it may affect you if your employer is associated with a church as well… though I can’t be bothered to do any research on it.</p>
<p>Of course I was just trying to be subtly controversial.</p>
<p>Well, don´t get too excited about those numbers. They are heavily influenced by industry lobbyists. They cry for more engineers all the time, because they want them as cheap as possible. You´ll find articles about missing engineers here every week from organizations like the VDI.
Their intention is to lure as many young people into these disciplines as possible that way. Yet, it is embarrassing how bad the payment can be. There is a strong trend for graduates to be forced to work for temp agencies for often as little as 32000 per year. Which is a cruel joke if you compare the difficulty of that area of studies compared to most other disciplines. (The average graduate will start around 38000, and only half of that will end in your checking account.)</p>
<p>Many qualified engineers are leaving germany every year because of this. There´s so many other professions that make equal or better money while not being half as useful to society, it´s rather embarrassing.
Life isn´t too bad in germany, but there are too many freeloaders and our politicians are intellectual lightweights without propriety. So, the future doesn´t look too bright.</p>
<p>Yeah German is NOT pretty at all. Lots of spitting it seems. You want pretty? go speak italian, spanish, french, etc. The romantics are named romantics for a reason</p>
<p>They are called Romance Languages because they are derived from Latin, the language Romans spoke. Anyone who speaks English, will find it easy to learn German, since both languages are considered Germanic Languages. Btw, English is a hybrid language, mostly composed by German and French.</p>
<p>For Spanish and English speakers, adding French and German is very easy.</p>