On my 18. Birthday, the best present I could make myself was going to the trade office, and finally become self-employed.
Over a few years, this has helped me to gain an understanding about businesses, leadership and sales. And as a great side-benefit, It helped me travel around the world after my Abitur and to finance my studies at the private code university.
Over the years I worked with several startups, schools, medium-sized companies and municipalities. I was mainly focussed on websites, but over the years also offered other things with partner companies, like videos, graphic design, development and more.
Over a few years, I built nearly 20 different websites.
Here are some examples: