What do you do for a living?

I have three jobs in fact. I teach in a technical trade school teaching apprentices. The pupils work for a company for four days a week and spend one day per week at school. Half a day they spend playing sport, they have three lessons in general subjects such as German, politics, law and so on. The rest of the time they learn technical subjects with me and my colleagues. We teach all kinds of technical subjects – energy, hydraulics, electricity and gears (gearboxes). These are the most important subjects for them and they spend most of their time on them. My second job is working on a small farm. The farm belongs to me and my father helps me with it. I have calves, sheep and fish – trout. I farm the trout in two square ponds about four to five meters each side and two meters deep. When I catch the fish I take them to my colleague. He fillets them and smokes them. It takes two to three years for the fish to grow. If you feed them a lot they will grow faster, perhaps up to 50cm in two or three years. Commercial farms grow their fish even faster, maybe twenty five centimeters a year. I prefer larger fish though, they have more meat and fewer bones. They are better to eat then. My third job involves renting out farm machinery. I have a combine harvester, baling and bale wrapping machines. We recently got a new cultivator used for organic farming without herbicides. Beside the farm machinery I also have several diggers and bulldozers. Those are used in winter also to clear snow. Very new, is that we offer sheet metal shaping and cutting with a CNC plasma cutting machine. I bought this machine in China. To order it, I had to go to China to see the factory where it was made.