Sjan and Wilbert run a butcher’s shop and slaughter themselves: ‘Difficult to find young people who want to learn the trade’

Work can’t always be fun, but why do people choose the profession of ‘pit-cleaner’, bailiff or caretaker for the dead? In this series, Dutch people with such a job talk about their work, why they chose it and what makes it so interesting. Today: Sjan Timmermans (57) and Wilbert den Ouden (51) run the Timmermans butcher shop together, one of the few self-slaughter butchers that our country still knows.

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