38 km (392,8) 8,5 h

The rain started ten minutes after I started running. The first stage for today I walked 17 km non-stop in the rain. The restaurant at the entrance of Calzadilla de la Cueza was directly a welcome invitation to take off my soaked pants and shoes. Two Italians have just opened here today. Delicious coffee, bocadillos and tiramisu sweetened my stay. After an hour, I stormed on to Sahagún. Sahagún is exactly the center of the French caminos. I didn’t want to leave it at the 17 km and set off despite persistent rain. An hour later it actually stopped and I was able to dry out a bit for the remaining 15 km. I am satisfied with the 38 km I have done today.

Due to my couching I thought a lot about how it comes that I get bored so quickly with many things I do. I then often fall into a mode of doing nothing and being dissatisfied. I feel the same way at work, for example, that I lack motivation after a year or two. The stupid thing is that I often need an external impulse to initiate a change and to challenge myself anew.

A little history:

School was often boring for me. I slept in class as soon as I wasn’t challenged enough

-> Change: Education

My education was actually too boring for me towards the end.

– I did not take advantage of the shortened apprenticeship

After the apprenticeship I worked for three years in Operations Monitoring at BASF, here I was already bored after one year

– After about one and a half years, my good friend Patrick inspired me to take my vocational diploma by distance learning. We did it together.

– due to restructuring in the department I decided to study in Hamburg.

My Bachelor European Computer Science was not very demanding

– the option to go to Portugal came up during the studies after one year

– i improved my English by worlds and learned Portuguese at the same time

– i lived in Lisbon and Coimbra for one and a half years and studied in Portuguese

Back at BASF, I didn’t feel much of a drive after just 1 or 2 years, but I wasn’t looking for challenges on my own either.

– Again, it was Patrick who alerted me to a position always AD Team. I applied and was accepted, despite the fact that I actually had no practical experience in the field of AD

The first two years in the AD team were interesting and exciting. I was able to develop quickly and learn a lot of new things

– after three years, I resigned from BASF after 17 years. I will leave this September at the latest. I had been dissatisfied for some time. The termination was triggered by the book “think again” by Adam Grant

One of the things I have firmly resolved to do is to reflect more on my satisfaction and to seek new challenges in a more self-determined way. Most importantly, I want to tackle the new challenges faster before I fall into the hole of comfort

I see reflecting on my past as inspiration and hopefully not making the same mistakes in the future.