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How diabetes shattered his dream of becoming a train attendant

Alessandro Addesso looks in consternation at a train at Wörgl station.(Bild: Andreas Moser)

After 13 years as a shift worker, Alessandro Addesso (31) from Tyrol wanted to change careers. His declared goal was to become an ÖBB train attendant. Initial tests also raised high hopes. But then everything turned out differently - and he had already quit his previous job.

"I've never felt so discriminated against with my diabetes as I do now," sighs the 31-year-old from Ebbs in the Tyrolean lowlands. After his production job in Kufstein, he wanted to "get out and about more".