/* Englische Fassung von "Mein Weg". Fakten nach Philipps Story-Kanon (Notion
   3c6152c94dcf81c3b804d70bc0e38c58): "almost 10 years at Mercedes-Benz", unbezahlter Urlaub,
   Japan und Tokio, keine Kuendigungsfrist, kein Name des Chefs. Der Lebenslauf bleibt
   natives details, damit er auch zugeklappt im Prerender steht. */
function MyStoryEn() {
  return (
    <section className="section meinweg">
      <div className="container-narrow">
        <h2 className="section-title">My story</h2>
        <div className="story-prose">
          <p>
            In 2019, my life looked perfect from the outside: a secure job at Mercedes, a company
            car, a promotion every year.
          </p>
          <figure className="story-photo">
            <img src="assets/philipp-mercedes.jpg" alt="Philipp Raasch next to a classic Mercedes-Benz coupé" width="1000" height="912" loading="lazy" />
          </figure>
          <p>
            But I was getting more and more unhappy. I sat in the same meetings as 5 years earlier.
            We discussed the same problems. Only the names in the calendar had changed.
          </p>
          <p>
            My answer: work even harder. 60-hour weeks became normal. I slept worse and worse.
            Until my body said stop.
          </p>
          <p>
            So I took 2 months of unpaid leave and flew to Japan with a backpack. In Tokyo, it felt
            like my life had slammed on the brakes. I came back and quit.
          </p>
          <p>
            My last day was in February 2020. I had a partner and a plan: our own consultancy for
            carmakers. 2 weeks later, the first Covid lockdown hit.
          </p>
          <p>
            So we started a bike company instead. We made every mistake founders can make. After
            12 months without a salary, we had to figure out what came next.
          </p>
          <p>
            In 2021 a carmaker asked us for help. That one project turned into a company. By 2022
            we had more than 10 consultants working for clients. Then in 2023, the car industry’s
            crisis hit us too. We lost 2 big projects, and I was back to zero.
          </p>
          <p>
            At Christmas 2023 I was looking for a name for a newsletter. I knew nothing about
            newsletters, but I started anyway. In mid-2024 I stopped consulting.
          </p>
          <p>Today more than 50,000 people subscribe to my German newsletter. Looking back, it sounds like a plan. It wasn’t.</p>
          <p>
            What drives me is simple: I want the German car industry to still matter in 20 years.
            For that, it has to change from the ground up. That’s what I work on, every week.
          </p>
        </div>
        <details className="vita">
          <summary>Short CV</summary>
          <ul className="vita-list">
            <li><strong>Today:</strong> B2B creator and automotive analyst, with the newsletter “Der Autopreneur” (since 2024) and its English edition “The German Autopreneur”</li>
            <li><strong>In the media:</strong> Markus Lanz and tagesschau (German TV), The Washington Post, CNBC, FOCUS Online</li>
            <li><strong>2020 to 2024:</strong> Founder, most recently of my own consultancy for carmakers</li>
            <li><strong>2011 to 2020:</strong> Mercedes-Benz, most recently as Management Consultant for AI at Mercedes-Benz Consulting</li>
            <li><strong>Education:</strong> Degree in media management, Stuttgart Media University (Hochschule der Medien)</li>
          </ul>
        </details>
      </div>
    </section>
  );
}
window.MyStoryEn = MyStoryEn;