Hamburg

Almost one month is over and I am pretty familiar with the city. Of course there are a lot of places left to discover.

For the first month there were several priorities:
1) get into working
2) finding apartment
3) exploring the city
4) enjoy summer
5) get friends

@1)
tough one, because everything was pretty new, but I have a great supportive team, where everybody is helping me to get most out of it! So I think I had a good start, but I still will need a lot of hard work to get their where I wanna be.

@2)
accomplished! After visiting 15 apartments, where 4 were just awful and the rest were pretty good, but after applying for all of them, I just won 2 of them, where one is very great. Move in by middle of July, but officially by first of August. So from searching to furnishing!

@3)
with such a nice weather, with only 3 days with rain and wind, I really enjoy the city. I didn't do much of culture, but a lot of eating out due to missing proper cocking place. So come here and I take you out!

@4)
as I mentioned already, that summer arrived north very early, I am hoping that I will head to the sea after finishing the search and have two weekend to prepare for move in!

@5)
funny story. I met few guys who I first met in Berkeley, which is really funny, because who thought that I hang out with guys I first met in the USA...

Hannes

CIB Campus

After my official ending of my time as a student, I also achieved to finish jobless-time just after two months. Now being on my first full-time job with UniCredit in Hamburg, where I will join the Relationship Management Team for Large Caps, it feels quiet comfortable to see that the 6 years of studying payed off. I am one of 29 trainees on the CIB Campus, which is held in Munich the whole May. We have a special training which should prepare us for the the new tasks in our job. After May I will go to my home base where I will rotate between different departments, who are important for my future target position. During this 15-month education, I will spend up to 3 months abroad, which destination is not fixed yet.

Besides the studying, networking and eating at the hotel, we do find some time to explore the centre of white sausage and white beer even though it is very cold and rainy.

This weekend is a special weekend. Schnucki will come to visit me and also hopefully celebrating the champions league victory of Bayern Munich. As our bank is main sponsor of the CL and Munich based I managed to get free tickets for the public viewing at the Allianz Arena!!!

So enjoy the game with white beer!!!

Go Bayern go!

Hannes

Back to blogging

Quiet a long time ago, but during my hard time writing for my last hurdle of my degree. I rather spent my time where I didn’t read or write without typing. So now, as I still have some pages to accomplish, I am back with some News. Even better, I am going to try to recap what happened last few months.

First, Nadine and I spent some days in Croatia on the isle Rab, where I had been in May already. Nothing changed to my good opinion towards Rab and its wonderful coves! This time we even had a big experience by a big rubber tube! Nadine’s father pulled us by boat through the Adriatic Sea. Unfortunately, we had to leave Croatia after few days, because we had to catch our pre-booked flight to Barcelona operated by Sky Europe. It was one of the last flights, which took off from Vienna – just with a 4 hour delay, but still took off. But our flight back arrived in Bratislava, which wasn’t a big problem, because Nadine’s father picked us up at the Slovakian airport and by car it was just a 20 min delay, because it just takes 5 min from landing to leaving the airport.

After the vacations, I was back on track to write some pages for my final thesis, but there was not much time, because next event was close. I decided to work at the INFORM for dieBank as a Barkeeper, which was very exhausting on one side, but made a lot of fun on the other side.

By first of September I replaced Tina in the Gunners office, because she went on maternity leave. 20 hours a week didn’t sound that much, but ending up working almost twice as agreed, took me completely out of my writing rhythm. Anyway, it made a lot of fun to work for the club, where I helped out already in summer 2006. Knowing what things have to be done and being familiar with the structure and the workflows, I could integrate myself really easy.

Since November I am doing an internship at the Deutsche Bank in the Global Markets Department. My contract will last until End of February and I am desperate to stay in this sector for my future career. Beside the job I am trying to help out the club concerning administration. So still quite busy all the time, but who cares about watching TV and a lot of sleep. The only thing what I would like to do is working myself out, but there is no time for it, yet.

At the moment, I finished 71 pages of my 85-page final thesis. So now I am entering the last curve in a long a... run.

In my next few reports I will do a more detailed recap.

Regards

Hannes

Consulting & Basketball

Tomorrow, I will attend the career day of Deloitte to apply for a position in the business consulting department. so let's see how it goes! Afterward, I might go to the Basketball game to Wels, where the Gunners have the chance to move to the semifinals with a victory.

Working!

Last weekend I was completely occupied with working. I was working as a waiter at the MotoMotion in Oberwart, which is a fair for cars, bikes and everything which can be related to it. As it was a success I was really busy! Now I am tired and happy to have it passed.

Before I forget, on Friday there was a Graduation Party of Manuel in Stinatz. It was a very funny party with cold meet and a lot of beer! ;-) Unfortunately, I was not very long, because of working on the next day, but still I enjoyed an "Austrian-croatian" celebration.

Tomorrow morning I will meet with my professor to discuss the register of my final thesis.

Good night and take care,

Hannes