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auf Umwegen mit etw in Berührung kommen.

English translation: eventually came to ... in a round-about way

12:37 Jun 23, 2014
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts) / colloquial expression
German term or phrase: auf Umwegen mit etw in Berührung kommen.
Über den zweiten Bildungsweg, der Ihn geplanter Weise eigentlich ins Lehramt führen sollte, ist er dann auf Umwegen mit der Fotografie in Berührung gekommen.

Via the second educational pathway which was supposed to ensure him a career in the teaching profession he later encountered photography in a roundabout way. ?

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martina1974
Austria
Local time: 22:48
English translation:eventually came to ... in a round-about way
Explanation:
I think this may fit quite well.

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Note added at 17 mins (2014-06-23 12:55:28 GMT)
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BTW: I've often seen zweite Bildungsweg described as "second chance education".


Could also be "found himself sidelined into photography" or
"got into photography by the back door/almost purely by chance."
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Yorkshireman
Germany
Local time: 22:48
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2eventually came to ... in a round-about way
Yorkshireman
4 +1taking a circuitous path, [he then] discovered/encountered ...
Helen Shiner
4 +1stumbled upon it by chance
Pauline Alexiou
3he (incidentally) discovered photography (in passing)
Ramey Rieger (X)


  

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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
eventually came to ... in a round-about way


Explanation:
I think this may fit quite well.

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Note added at 17 mins (2014-06-23 12:55:28 GMT)
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BTW: I've often seen zweite Bildungsweg described as "second chance education".


Could also be "found himself sidelined into photography" or
"got into photography by the back door/almost purely by chance."

Yorkshireman
Germany
Local time: 22:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 25
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  franglish
1 min
  -> THX, franglish
agree  Johanna Timm, PhD
6 days
  -> Thanks, Johanna
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
he (incidentally) discovered photography (in passing)


Explanation:
In the course of his second education career, firmly intent on becoming a teacher, he (incidentally) discovered photography (in passing).

Ramey Rieger (X)
Germany
Local time: 22:48
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
taking a circuitous path, [he then] discovered/encountered ...


Explanation:
Just another suggestion. Depends on the tone of the text... This has a certain wry quality to it and/or can be used in a deadly serious way.

A significant number of graduates featured in this book started off with a job unrelated to what they studied in college, let alone one they had an interest in. Others were doing exactly what they planned for while they were in college, while some were taking a circuitous path as they navigated their post-college lives; the chapters in this book reflect such a variety of paths.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-king/conversations-about-c...

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I did stay in the academic business, taking a circuitous path which included both being blackballed and being treated with great kindness and am now a tenured professor at the engineering school of New York University.

http://westviewnews.org/2014/03/science-from-away-backwards-...

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 43

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Andrea Garfield-Barkworth: I agree
2 days 19 hrs
  -> Thank you, M00nshine
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18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
stumbled upon it by chance


Explanation:
he stumbled upon photography by chance

Example sentence(s):
  • He stumbled upon it by chance.
Pauline Alexiou
Local time: 23:48
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Yorkshireman: IMO, better with "more or less by chance"
1 day 6 hrs
  -> Thank you for your comment. Have a nice day.
agree  Machiel van Veen (X): The shortest way to describe it.
7 days
  -> Thank you for your comment. Have a nice day
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