DyM Podcast

I joined the engineering community in Germany Since 2019 and i started to work in a research center as a research engineer in the field of medical imaging. But prior to that i had almost 4 years experience of working in my own start-up in Iran. Getting into working market was very tough for me. After graduation in Finland, i went back to Iran because of many reasons that i will explain it later in another blog. However, It was very tough in Iran to find a job, since most of the comapnies did not like to hire some one who was freshly graduated and did not have hand-on experiences. Therfore there was only one chance and that was for me to run my own- startup. I like to skip this part as well and write a seperate blog about my experience as an entrpreneur in Iran. but later…

anyway, it was January of 2019, where i landed in Germany and started to work as a mechanical design engineer. Working in a research center was not new to me since i had experience of working at university in Finalnd, however this time it was a real job.

The name of city that i was working was Karlsruhe and had only 300000 people and was considered as a medium to small city in Germany. People in Karslruhe speak with badische accent which makes it difficult to understand for non German people. In Germany when a city is small, its way harder for you to find new freinds or get socialized. In the beginning of my entrance to Germany, I could not speak German and that made my life much harder since not so many German are willing to talk in English although they can talk in English. So the first Challenge was Language!

German Language is not an easy language. It has alot of gramatical rules and it is a gender based language which automattically makes it hard to learn. I took a private class in Inlingua Karlsruhe. it took almost 2 years until i could with some confidance do my daily activities in German. I never forget my German Teacher Reiner. He was theater actor and as second job he tought German to us. Thanks Reiner for everything!

Any way the first two years was moving forward good. My Job was interesting because we were building the third generation of an ultrasound tomographic machine that could revolutionize the breast cancer diagnosis. I had a very nice boss. She was an amazing human being and also very kind scientist. However in the team there were also some annoying coleagues that was not easy to get along with them. When a team is small, there is more interconnection between the team members and that makes it hard for active members of the team to deal with other team members that are not interested to collaborate or participate in the team work or just sometimes they want to impose their idea to the other people. In Germany, some German colleagues in General behave not so friendly with Foreign colleagues. I do not know if its because of rascism or maybe just taking themselves supperior over the others. However in scientific institutions, since most of the staff remain for their whole carrier in the same position and see each other every day, their attitute toward each other is just very monotone and wiered.