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Ralf Wunderlich in a suit in 2011

Other Work Experience

I work as a full-time coach since 2015. Before that I had a normal work life with football being my hobby.

Aside from employmentship, I also ran my own record label, distribution and webshop for about 10 years. The label still continues, but only as a hobby. It's not listed below, because I want to keep it separated from my coaching life.

The list below should be complete. If I forgot something, former colleagues or bosses may contact me and request an add.

recordsale & musicberlin GmbH

recordsale

Memories

recordsale office in 2014

View from my desk upon the recordsale office in 2014. They had over 1 million records in stock, if I remember correctly. The warehouse was in another building.

5'2014-3'2015

  • Job:
  • Record seller and customer service
  • Info:
  • Recordsale is a big vinyl record online shop, specialised on second hand records. Their office was in Berlin-Kreuzberg back then (they later moved elsewhere). It was a good and fascinating job in the sector of my second passion in life besides football: music. I had a good relationship with my boss which was nice. When I told him that I move to Finland, he was quite sad, but he understood that this is a big chance I had to take. Check out their website.

AOK Nordost

AOK Nordost

Memories

AOK Nordost's Tour de Prignitz in 2010

At the Tour de Prignitz event somewhere in Brandenburg in 2010

4'2010-9'2012

  • Job:
  • Private customer sales and strategical planner
  • Info:
  • (Before this part, read below about my time at the AOK Berlin.) When my unpaid, 6 years long holidays for going to the university, came to an end, and it was time to go back to my old job, it so happened that at the same time, the AOK Berlin had to merge with the AOK Brandenburg and came under new management. The people I made the deal with were no longer in charge. The new HR department wasn't interested in fulfilling their part of the deal. Since I had the legal right to return, they gave me a "dead" job in a strategical department, but they didn't raise my salary as promised. Soon after I started there, the AOK Berlin-Brandenburg merged again, now with the AOK Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and became the AOK Nordost. Things got even worse. At the end, we settled for a contract termination on my terms.

University of Potsdam

Universität Potsdam

Memories

Park Sanssouci campus

This is a picture of the main campus of my university. I couldn't find any pictures of my job there. I know they were taken. Even videos. But I don't have them. The building in the center of the pic is the philosophical institute where I studied. Great times!

10'2008-3'2009

  • Job:
  • Student assistant for the ”Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation”
  • Info:
  • "CEIP" helped students who wanted to start their own company/startup. I don't remember much about this job, but I was helping at various events and trade fairs in Potsdam, informing students about our services. I also had to act for their new marketing video, together with the other assistant Dana (who by the way, was and is a semi-professional footballer; another sign of the universe that my destiny lies with women's football). I also had to help coding their new website. Dana and I both did such good work, that both our contracts got extended for three more months.

Oi fm

Radio Oi f

Memories

In the radio studio

During my radio program in the studio.

1'2007-8'2007

  • Job:
  • Trainee and radio show host
  • Info:
  • For my media studies, I needed to do a three months internship at a media company. I did this during my exchange year in Joensuu, where I accidentally ran into the founding meeting of the new radio station "Oi fm" in the "Kerubi" café in late 2006. The station needed voluntary radio show hosts. I offered my services for over half a year in return for a summer internship. They agreed. I ran two one-hour-long shows on Monday evenings. I also shaped the planning of their programming by marketing Monday evenings as the "International evening at Oi fm". First, I ran an English speaking info show to tell exchange students and tourists what's going on in town. After that, I had a show about the music genre I'm active in. I won't tell here what it is, as the show is still ongoing on Mixcloud. After my internship ended, Oi fm kept playing repetitions of my shows on Monday evenings. Some years later, my show returned on a monthly basis via pre-recorded files. During my internship I learned how radio planning and organisation works, how to produce radio shows professionally and also some things about studio equipment. It was very interesting. Unfortunately, Oi fm stopped airing on 4th January 2015. Since then it's the commercial station Radio City Joensuu.

AOK Berlin

AOK Berlin

Memories

AOK Familientag event at the FEZ in 2002

During an AOK Familientag event at the FEZ around 2002

2001-9'2004

  • Job:
  • Internet Supervisor, Intranet Editor and general marketing assistant
  • Info:
  • AOK Berlin was a big health insurance company for many decades. When I was at trade school during the late Nineties, the practical parts happened at the AOK. During that time, their Head of Student Insurance witnessed me playing and coaching my university team. He insisted on recruiting me for their company's football team. As you maybe know by now, if you followed this website thoroughly, he succeeded. In return I got a neat job in the marketing department and was responsible for all their online activities. Back then, the internet was still a mystery for most people. I was in charge of the website, e-mail and online communication (there was no social media yet) as well as the marketing information in the internal intranet. The job and my team were pretty cool, and they gave me appreciated freedom. However, there was the issue that I wasn't officially qualified for the job (would have needed a university degree) and thus my salary was two levels lower than I should have gotten in theory. In 2004, the company got into financial troubles and was looking for creative solutions to save money without firing people. Our department had to downgrade two full-time positions. One worker went into pre-pension. And I sacrified myself as the youngling of the team. I made a deal to take unpaid, 6 years long holidays to go to the university in the meantime, and afterwards I shall return with the qualification for my job, and the AOK hopefully having fixed their financial problems by then. Unfortunately, as you can read above in the AOK Nordost section above, there was no AOK Berlin anymore after I returned from my studies.

Jugend- und Freizeitheim Haus Uhlenbusch

-no logo

Memories

I know that we took some analog photos back then, but I couldn't get ahold of any yet.

10'1996-11'1997

  • Job:
  • Community service (?, the alternative if you didn't want to go to the army)
  • Info:
  • Haus Uhlenbusch was a youth hostel and education center in Hanstedt in der Nordheide, about 30 minutes South of Hamburg. It was a great experience. We community service providers lived on the premises in the middle of the forest. We had a ninepins alley under our rooms where we could play if no guests were there. My job was either indoors (kitchen, rooms) or outdoors (gardener, repairs, driver). Since I was a good transporter driver, I was often send to the supermarket to do groceries shopping. Or pick up guests from the bus stop. In the summer, I sometimes had to drive huge shower/toilet waggons with the tractor through the whole region to various summer camps. That was awesome. One ride before lunch. One ride after lunch. End of work. Unfortunately, Haus Uhlenbusch got closed a couple of years later. I visited it in 2009 and only found ruins. Well, our graffiti at the backside of our house was still there, lol. In 2014, all buildings were torn down. On Google Maps, all you can see is forest and meadows. It's sad. Fun info: One day, a pair of peacocks escaped from a nearby bird sanctuary and ended up in our kitchen. Man, they left a mess. Luckily, I had outdoor work that day, so I didn't have to clean it up. ;)

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