Germany is wasteful of all things with the most important domestic resource, the offspring. The result is the blatant shortage of skilled workers, which is becoming more dramatic every year.
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Berlin Things didn’t look good for little Fatbardh Mehmeti, who came to the small Swabian town of Vaihingen/Enz with his parents from Kosovo at the age of three. Despite kindergarten, he had to repeat the third grade and ended up at secondary school. “I had hardly any support and because of the bad grades I didn’t feel like studying,” says the 28-year-old. “In the secondary school, many teachers also made it clear to us that there is hardly any perspective for us, that we would end up as unskilled workers”.
Extra help brought about the turning point: “A volunteer who helped me with my homework in the school cafeteria in the afternoon encouraged me that I can do more – that aroused my ambition.”
Fatbardh got his high school diploma, did a bank apprenticeship, and did evening studies in business administration and a bachelor’s degree. Today he leads a team of 25 employees at his bank – and works on his master’s degree on the side.
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