Theme series: People at Loibl
Category: Career, Company | | Created by Lea PfingstenCarine (50), Qualitätsmanagement bei Loibl Förderanlagen GmbH:
„Ich bin dankbar, dass man mir bei Loibl die Möglichkeit gegeben hat, mich weiterzuentwickeln und neue Wege zu gehen.“
Carine was born with a fascination for flying. Her father and uncle were both pilots, even flew in the same aviation club. "My father preferred gliders while my uncle flew various machines." Carine's first plane was a blue Jodel D112. A propeller plane. "I dabbled in aerobatics too and enjoyed the feeling of weightlessness."
Carine's parents met at an airfield in the late sixties. Not as a pilot and passenger, though. As skydivers instead. "My parents were children of the 1968 movement. For both of them, freedom was their first priority." What that meant, Carine learned early on. She moved a whole 15 times during her childhood.Sometimes she lived in the big city, other times in the countryside. "Possessions meant nothing to my parents. Collecting memories, that was important to them." Carine's mother even jumped out of a plane while she was pregnant with her. "Supposedly because she didn't know it then." Which Carine doubts to this day, as she admits with a laugh. Carine herself has never dared to jump out of a plane. "All my childhood we had my parents' skydiving friends at home. They were always talking about who jumped here and who jumped there, who had an accident and which jumps ended fatally." Carine was content to sit behind the wheel herself, where she had everything firmly under control.
"My sister is pretty much the exact opposite of me." While one wanted to go high, the other wanted to go way down. Carine's younger sister became enthusiastic about diving at an early age and even met her husband on a joint diving excursion. It seems likely that Carine met her partner Martin on a flight. Not quite: "I told you that I came to Bavaria because I wanted to write my thesis there. I was working for a company right at Straubing Airport. At the time, a new aircraft hangar was being built there, for which they threw a big opening party." That evening, Carine met a young carpenter who worked at the same company where she was writing her thesis.
The two fell in love - just a few days before Carine returned to Normandy. "It was never planned that I would stay in Straubing. My sister and most of my family live in France." For her new boyfriend, however, a true Bavarian, as Carine loves to tease him, it was clear from the start that he wanted to build a family in Bavaria with the woman of his dreams. A cultural shock for Carine, who initially had to return to Normandy to finish her studies there. But she came back to Bavaria for love. A few months later, she was offered the position of a developer in the company where the two met. Twenty-five years have passed since then and Carine is still here. "Martin and I actually started a family in Bavaria." Just as the true Bavarian had foreseen.
Dream man, dream family, dream job - why did Carine switch from the aircraft industry to plant engineering? She was faced with a choice again, as she was when it came to her diploma thesis. "I could have continued to work in aviation, but I would have had to leave Straubing. That was out of the question for me." Carine decided to change her career. The Loibl company was looking for new employees for quality management at exactly that time. Carine originally applied for more familiar terrain - in construction - but the management decided otherwise. They seemed to have discovered a potential in Carine that she herself was not yet aware of.
"The change from propeller development to quality control for customised machines and systems was extreme," she admits. So extreme that she cannot draw a comparison between one job and the other. In retrospect, very fortunate. "I am grateful that I was given the opportunity at Loibl to develop myself further and go new ways." The team has always supported her in her career. Today, she can't imagine doing anything else. "I have no regrets. Each of my decisions has made me the person I am today. For me, that is true freedom. To follow your own path and always be true to yourself."
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