Theme series: People at Loibl

Category: Career, Company | | Created by Lea Pfingsten

Carine (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.“

La liberté de voler

Not her first stay in Germany. Before Carine studied Atiba, she graduated with a degree in biochemistry. As part of a semester abroad, she came to Halle in Saxony-Anhalt and used her study leave to do an internship in a laboratory.  What started out feeling like a dream quickly turned into the opposite. The studies were exciting, but the daily routine of the internship was monotonous. Carine felt trapped. Although she finished her studies, it was clear that she never wanted to work as a biochemist.

Carine's short-sightedness was the reason she could not start a professional career as a pilot. Yet she never considered this a disadvantage, as some of her best memories were made while flying. "I remember flying towards twilight. On my left the land, on my right a long beach and in front of me the sunset dimmed by an eclipse." She has no doubt: she would never have experienced moments like this if she had become a professional pilot.

  • Carine in her Jodel D112 inspecting the displays

  • Just before take-off: Carine learned to fly in a propeller jet machine

"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.

  • Carine during quality control of a conveyor system

"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."

  • Carine is grateful that she has the opportunity to break new ground at Loibl

Birgit Blöchl

Human Resources

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