The number of new training contracts is still far from the pre-pandemic level.
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Berlin On the way back from her parents, she had to stop several times at the motorway service station because she cried so much. “Back then I just didn’t want to go to work on Mondays,” says Lena today, whose real name is different because she’s afraid of disadvantages in future applications. That was about four years ago now. Lena was in the middle of her apprenticeship as an industrial mechanic, but constant doubts about it spread.
She didn’t know what to do after school and was then persuaded by those close to her to do an apprenticeship. Since she liked to watch her grandfather in the workshop as a child, training as an industrial mechanic seemed right to her. “That just sounded interesting,” Lena says in retrospect.
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