{"id":4111,"date":"2023-04-03T13:45:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T11:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.de\/2023\/04\/03\/the-past-catches-up-with-you\/"},"modified":"2023-09-22T12:34:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T10:34:28","slug":"the-past-catches-up-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/2023\/04\/03\/the-past-catches-up-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The past catches up with you!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Imagine, more than 40 years after you did your apprenticeship, your former &#8220;Lehrherr&#8221; or trainer, as they would say today, stands in front of you and presents you with your training certificate from that time.<\/p>\n\n<p>That&#8217;s what happened to our CEO Peter Adelfang these days.<\/p>\n\n<p>Dr. Bernhard Reuter reminded Peter Adelfang of what he was like 44 years ago as an apprentice:<\/p>\n\n<p>rebellious<br\/>defiant<br\/>unteachable<\/p>\n\n<p>It was a very appreciative conversation, a nice togetherness and it was exciting to understand how it was &#8211; back then.<br\/>Peter Adelfang was 16 when he began his apprenticeship as an industrial clerk.<br\/>He quickly realized that if he takes care of other colleagues, this will bring him further and he can steer his training in a self-determined way.<br\/>For example, he had himself elected to the works council as a youth representative and during his apprenticeship was responsible for representing the interests of the apprentices to the management.<br\/>In return, he became a member of one of the most left-wing trade unions, IG Druck &amp; Papier, and he himself was a member of the Junge Union.<\/p>\n\n<p>It was a real adventure and the visit of his trainer, Dr. Bernhard Reuter, reminded Peter Adelfang of exactly this wonderful, exciting time.<\/p>\n\n<p>However, this meeting made us aware again of what makes a good trainee:<\/p>\n\n<p>act with curiosity<br\/>be unconventional<br\/>Step on the gas when it counts<\/p>\n\n<p>It was a nice trip down memory lane!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine, more than 40 years after you did your apprenticeship, your former &#8220;Lehrherr&#8221; or trainer, as they would say today, stands in front of you and presents you with your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}