Work Experience: Public Authorities

In 2014, my college was able to organise for me to go to the town of Oberursel in the quasi-suburbs of Frankfurt to work in the town hall with the town’s translation team. It was a small team in a cramped office, with a relatively relaxed working attitude (what one expects from public servants). Being as tasked-oriented as I was, I tended to sit down, work four hours, have a break, then work another four. This worried my erstwhile colleagues, making them think I desperately did not want to be there. Nothing was further from the truth; I just had clear goals in front of me and something to work on. What else more was there to do?