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Elizabeth Dostert
dream jobs
Valentin Bindl, 20, loves the smell of ash wood. As he says this, he looks like he’s catching that smell, like he can pull the scent of woods from some invisible database. He is sitting in the sun on the terrace of his teacher Martin Impler in Bad Feilnbach. In places like this, work and private life are very close. Bindl really likes wood, how it feels, how it can be worked and what he can make out of it. That’s why he became a carpenter. It’s his dream job, he says. Bindl cannot explain exactly why this is so. “It was a feeling,” he says, as if it had been there for a very long time, almost always: “A feeling, that’s quite a lot in Bavaria.” Bindel laughs.