Paul Kaiser

Leaving a sales leadership job in Germany, taking the family on the road, then the US - Documenting the messy middle.

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

I’m a sales leader for a US software company in Germany but I’m leaving my job and Germany by the end of the fiscal year.

The plan was to move to the US with my wife and our two kids. The green card is taking longer than we thought. That was frustrating at first. Then we decided to turn it into a trip: roughly six months in Thailand and Bali before we go.

The last years were mostly work. Getting ahead. Making money. Saving. And a lot of time developing my teams and helping them build careers. I love building things and helping people grow. I just barely saw my kids.

That’s the part I want back.

I’ll post here while it’s happening. Still in Germany. Still working. Planning the trip, the move, and hopefully a new job in the US.

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

Six years before we decided to leave Germany for the US.
My first year as an AE at this US software company I underperformed. Badly.
On paper I thought I understood the playbook. In practice I didn’t. PipGen, NBMs, finding real pain. I was worried for a good 8 months they were going to fire me.
A mentor helped. He came to my city two days a week and just worked with me. That mattered more than any training slide.
I was so amped I had to stop drinking coffee for eight weeks. One cup and I was useless.

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

@RescueYou247TW @welt

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@RescueYou247TW @tagesschau

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

I never write or post anything on X or other platforms. We as a family are planning to move to the USA in the next 6-12 months. Its an exciting but also stressful time and I will post some stuff here, also to digest the madness around the move.

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

@LeftAndOrder @MarioNawfal I think it’s rather that the spd has been soft on crime and the cdu is promoting to be harder on crime.

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

@suekhim I have a daughter 7 finishing 1 grade she could use it for math and a son with 4 in preschool not sure how the younger one fits. Would be great to try it out

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

@mario_lochner Congrats endlich mal ein richtig gutes Investment.

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

@cattturdd2 @MyLordBebo You lost it 🤣

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

@RickRational @MyLordBebo Agreed

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

@cattturdd2 @MyLordBebo Dude. You are commenting under MY posts. Who asked you? All those comments are hilarious

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

@Justviewing777 @MyLordBebo Are you a bot? How am I ruining the west? I doubted a x post and than later said I was wrong.

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

@cattturdd2 @MyLordBebo You are a great dude. Enjoy

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

@MACEDONIA_4ever @MyLordBebo Thank you for the insult. Have a great day

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

@rhirhiarhii @MyLordBebo It’s a new law since 1.1.26. I’m out of the country since than. Will be back in 2 weeks so yes I know what new law means and how it applies. Thank you that you know more about my life than I myself. Have a great day.

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

@FantasySciFi99 @MyLordBebo Jup. Habs auch gelesen. Brutal. Das muss doch vom Verfassungsgericht wieder abgewiesen werden.

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

@EzMid22 @MyLordBebo Yes I did. And nothing happend. By researching I found out it’s not enforced “yet”.

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

@cattturdd2 @MyLordBebo And who asked you?

[Paul Kaiser @kaiserpaul1]

It’s funny who Crazy unfreundlich 95% of all the replies to my posts are. Why is that? Yes I was wrong that the law does not exist but it’s currently not enforced. Therefore I didn’t have a problem yet. Not sure if mark Twain knows so much about German law to write so aggressively. Happy Easter buddy