After nearly 4 months of work in Switzerland I'd like to share my work and company-related experiences. First of all, I consider myself very lucky to be working in the Solutions department with a nice and vveeery international team.
Although universities usually don’t offer many courses in logistics, I realized here that it’s quite an important and interesting field of economics. Working as a Solutions Analyst, I learned how to use different IT tools to map and optimize our warehouse allocation all over Europe. I feel like I’ve developed my knowledge in logistics quite well, moreover I’ve learned how to use as simple tools as Excel or Access for cost-optimization or strategic decision-making.
But besides my professional development I have also learned how to adapt and interact with people in a fully international environment, how to organize my life in a new country and to face all the up-coming issues.
Of course it’s not easy traveling 3 hours daily to Biel and back to Zurich and getting home at 8 in the evening, but I really don’t mind, since I like my job and my colleagues very much… besides I have also learned how to use best my travel time (e.g. to develop my German by reading the daily newspaper, to organize photos or make travel plans - - - you can not imagine how many things can be arranged while sitting in the train!)
And finally I’ve got my B PERMIT today! That means, I DO NOT need a visa to visit my own home country any more and I WILL BE ABLE finally to get my train passes, health insurance and credit card!!!
Krisztina
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Thursday, January 04, 2007
2007: New Year, New Challenges
We've been looking forward very much to our first skiing in Davos, one of the most attractive ski resorts in Switzerland, everything being planned well in advance (thanks to Zoli's colleague, our room had been reserved for a while...)
Just the winter dropped in very late this year...we could hardly wait for the first snow to fall and checked daily on the snow-reports. Finally we felt very happy about the 90 kms of ski slopes (out of 300!), which were opened in the resorts around Davos just before New Year's Eve.
Now we had to come across another challange, namely to get back from Cluj to Zurich (another day spent just by travelling!) and then from Zurich to Davos. This time everything ran smoothly, no waitings at the border and no car-accidents on the highway. ...and so we managed to reach Davos on time and even had the chance to spend the last day of 2006 by skiing !!!
The weather was really nice and we had a great time all day long with Zoltan's brother and his girlfriend, ending the day by a nice fondue dinner and celebrating New Year's Eve with a bottle of champagne while admiring the fireworks set in the mountains all around Davos.
Starting with the next day, it began snowing and finally felt like real winter. Many ski lifts got closed due to the heavy snowing and wind, yet we didn't give up... and that's when the accident happened (by taking a wrong turn, Krisztina's knee twisted). Luckily, rescuers came quickly and doctors in Davos Hospital set back my knee to the right position.
After 2 days of rest, I am all right and hope to go skiing in a few weeks again ;-)
See all pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/gulliver.gyenge/Davos
Just the winter dropped in very late this year...we could hardly wait for the first snow to fall and checked daily on the snow-reports. Finally we felt very happy about the 90 kms of ski slopes (out of 300!), which were opened in the resorts around Davos just before New Year's Eve.
Now we had to come across another challange, namely to get back from Cluj to Zurich (another day spent just by travelling!) and then from Zurich to Davos. This time everything ran smoothly, no waitings at the border and no car-accidents on the highway. ...and so we managed to reach Davos on time and even had the chance to spend the last day of 2006 by skiing !!!
The weather was really nice and we had a great time all day long with Zoltan's brother and his girlfriend, ending the day by a nice fondue dinner and celebrating New Year's Eve with a bottle of champagne while admiring the fireworks set in the mountains all around Davos.Starting with the next day, it began snowing and finally felt like real winter. Many ski lifts got closed due to the heavy snowing and wind, yet we didn't give up... and that's when the accident happened (by taking a wrong turn, Krisztina's knee twisted). Luckily, rescuers came quickly and doctors in Davos Hospital set back my knee to the right position.
After 2 days of rest, I am all right and hope to go skiing in a few weeks again ;-)
See all pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/gulliver.gyenge/Davos
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