Why Abdul Barakat loves working as an electrical engineer

Created: 05/23/2022, 20:00

By: Dominik Stallein

Fascination with technology: Abdul Barakat did an apprenticeship at Elektro Will in Münsing.

He finds that the job offers an incredible amount of variety.

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In our "Dream job found" series, trainees present their apprenticeship.

Today: Electrical engineer Abdul Barakat, apprentice at Elektro Will in Münsing.

Münsing

- He climbs onto roofs, overlooks Lake Starnberg - and the next day he's standing in the basement of a residential building and programming the future smart home: For Abdul Barakat, hardly a day is like the previous one.

This was important to the 24-year-old when he decided to train as an electrical engineer at Will in Münsing.

Of course, not only is its area of ​​application always new and exciting, the technical challenges are also constantly changing.

Abdul doesn't know monotony in his job

When Abdul Barakat says that a job is varied, the young man knows what he is talking about.

Barakat came to Germany as a refugee from Syria and was already working in a shoe production facility at a stopover in Turkey.

"I did exactly the same work every day, every hour," he recalls.

Even during his first apprenticeship in his home country, where he laid water pipes, the inquisitive young man quickly became monotonous.

Now he says with a smile that he “gets to know the whole region in my job” and that he gets and masters “a different challenge almost every day”.

As an electrical engineer, he always has to have his finger on the pulse.

The tasks of technology are constantly changing

Any innovation in technology needs people like Barakat who know how to work with it.

"Photovoltaic systems, e-mobility, programming systems" is what the 24-year-old lists as his main areas of application.

His boss, Andreas Will, explains: "Our profession is constantly growing and the tasks are constantly changing." That wasn't always the case.

Will's father knows this, and the son reports: "You used to be able to work according to the same scheme for decades, but now the technology is developing much faster." And the electrical engineers are growing with it.

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Barakat makes no secret of the fact that his training has always fascinated him, but in many cases it has also been quite challenging.

"Especially the time at the beginning was hard," he remembers.

The young man was not used to the hard, physical work that is sometimes simply part of it.

Now he sees the same with his colleagues who only recently started.

"Sometimes after a few hours they look at me and say: I can't take it anymore - and I can understand them."

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But over time you get used to the hardships.

Barakat now sees things positively.

"You get fitter through work." Anna Will adds: "If someone is already reasonably athletic, then that's a great prerequisite for the training." Barakat regularly goes to the gym after work and does the physical work of the volunteer fire brigade With.

"Sometimes I don't even notice that the work is so strenuous."

In the workshop in Münsing, maybe five percent of the work is done, "usually we are directly with the customer".

Sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the basement, sometimes for a few days in the shell construction together with craftsmen from other industries.

“You get to know a lot of other young people,” says Barakat.

It's a side effect, sure, but a nice one.

Just like the fact that he can also use many of the things he learns at work in his private life.

Programming techniques for example.

You learn a lot of background knowledge at vocational school

Abdul Barakat learned this in his daily work as well as in the vocational school and in courses of the electronics guild, which are part of the training.

"We learn a lot of details and background knowledge that we already use in our work," he says.

Perhaps the young man would like to specialize even more.

Programming, for example, is a lot of fun for him.

Photovoltaics is also a technology that fascinates him.

He sees this as a further advantage of the varied training.

"You can learn very different, exciting disciplines."

Series

Our new series "Dream job found" appears in no particular order.

It is intended to give young people a decision-making aid before the start of the next training year.

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