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Entrepreneur and hobby paraglider pilot Stefan Klumpp: "Organizing your own day as a traveling boss takes a lot of discipline"
Photo: Falk Heller / argum
"But you want to make a career" - this warning is still used as an argument to gloss over unpleasant tasks, to argue against a gut feeling or to demand seriousness.
Expressed by bosses, former classmates, emancipated friends, father, mother, colleagues.
The term »career« is usually attached to the classic promotion parameters such as income, a place high in the hierarchy or the largest possible team - and all of this with an employer that is as renowned as possible.
The reality check came with Corona at the latest: Initially, many well-established processes and office routines were destroyed overnight.
Work penetrated the private sphere like rarely.
Some have accumulated mountains of overtime - and others have been condemned to do nothing.
Many have noticed: We don't want to continue working as we have before - and maybe we don't have to.
Rather, we should ask ourselves what is important to us in life - and what role our profession plays in this.
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